Pete Buttigieg has dropped out of the 2020 US Presidential Race after poor support in Nevada and South Carolina. 

“Now, no one from the LGBTQ community will ever grow up thinking their sexuality is an unsurmountable obstacle on the road to the White House.” said Charles Kaiser, a Guardian contributor and the author of The Gay Metropolis: the Landmark History of Gay Life in America. 

Pete Buttigieg was the first openly gay American major candidate for President.