Meet Chasten Buttigieg, ‘almost’ first gentleman and LGBTQ advocate: the husband of US 2020 presidential candidate and transport sec, Pete Buttigieg, fled home as a newly out teen and is now speaking out
- Chasten Buttigieg, the spouse of former US presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, hails from rural Michigan, where he now lives with his husband and their adopted twin girl and boy
- The LGBTQ advocate – whose ‘lifestyle’ was publicly denounced by his evangelical pastor brother – wrote a bestselling coming out memoir, and traded barbs with Chaya Raichik, an anti-LGBTQ TikTokker
Meet Chasten Buttigieg, would-be first gentleman.
Chasten Buttigieg and Pete Buttigieg’s love story
Then Chasten Glezman met Pete Buttigieg on the dating app Hinge in the summer of 2015. After dating for three years, the pair were married in June 2018. In August 2021, they announced that they had become parents.
After struggling to adopt, Pete wrote on his Medium account that he and Chasten were contacted out of the blue by the adoption agency about a mother who had given birth and wanted her twins to be adopted. Per Advocate, the couple were told that the babies had been born prematurely and had potential health issues. Pete detailed the anxious weeks that ensued, with baby girl Penelope suffering from severe reflux and breathing issues, and baby boy Joseph being intubated at one point. Happily, both children are now healthy and present in their dads’ very public lives.