Nine-Year-Old Boy Asks Buttigieg Advice on Coming Out as Gay

Pete Buttigieg greets Zachary on stage at a campaign event in Denver on Feb. 22. Photographer: Win McNamee/Getty Images
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Pete Buttigieg welcomed a nine-year-old boy on stage at a rally in Denver, Colorado, on Saturday night after the young boy asked the Democratic presidential candidate for help coming out as gay.

“Would you help me tell the world I’m gay too,” the boy wrote in a pre-submitted question that was read to Buttigieg. “I want to be brave like you.”