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Pete Buttigieg's coded language shows the limits and promise of LGBTQ progress

  • Written by Nathaniel Frank, Director, What We Know Project, Cornell University
Pete Buttigieg speaks with members of the media on March 1 in Plains, Georgia.AP Photo/Matt Rourke

According to family lore, my father suspected I was gay when I was six because I liked cars with windshield wipers in the rear. (As a shrink, he’s always had a penchant for looking under the hood, so to speak.)

There were other clues too. I used...

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