Mel Boozer Said What Pete Buttigieg Can’t

Dec 26, 2019

Before Pete Buttigieg, Mel Boozer compared the civil-rights struggle to the fight for gay and lesbian rights.

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James Kirchick

James Kirchick is a writer at large for Air Mail and author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington and The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age. He has reported from over 40 countries and his writing has appeared in many publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic.

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