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Mayor London Breed, right, announced her appointment of district attorney candidate Suzy Loftus, second from right, as the city’s interim DA once the current official vacates the post next week. District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, left, and Assemblyman David Chiu were also on hand.
ACLU, Milk club criticize DA pick
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t least one progressive Democratic club and a civil liberties group have blasted Mayor London Breed’s decision to name Suzy Loftus, who is running for district attorney, to serve as interim DA once the current officeholder, George Gascón, vacates the position next week. See page 12 >>
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ete Buttigieg, who has served as mayor of South Bend, Indiana since 2012, came out as a gay man in a selfpenned essay published by the South Bend Tribune in 2015. This past April he declared his candidacy for president of the United States, the first out Democrat to do so. Gay Republican Fred Karger ran in 2012. His candidacy has attracted immense interest not just from LGBT voters but also the mainstream media. But the focus on his historic run for the White House has resulted in harsh attacks about his sexual orientation, with some critics questioning if Buttigieg is “gay enough.” When SiriusXM host Clay Cane interviewed Buttigieg last month, he asked him a question regarding the contention he has been successful politically because he is not effeminate. In response, Buttigieg replied that he “can’t even read the LGBT media anymore, because it’s all too gay, not gay enough, wrong kind of gay.” Yet, the stories Buttigieg referred to ran in mainstream news outlets. In a later interview with Alex Berg of AM to DM with Buzzfeed News, Buttigieg chalked up his comments to his having “a grumpy mo-
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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks at a campaign rally.
ment.” It aired a day after Buttigieg took part in a presidential forum on LGBT issues co-hosted by GLAAD and the LGBT newsmagazine the Advocate. In his first interview with an LGBT newspaper since he made those comments, But-
tigieg spoke by phone October 5 with Mark Segal, the publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News. Their interview focused on Buttigieg’s campaign, his values, and his role models in the LGBTQ community. See page 12 >>
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