A documentary on Pete Buttigieg’s historic presidential campaign is coming

Vice President Kamala Harris swears in Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, with his husband Chasten standing by his side.
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Amazon Studios has announced it has acquired the distribution rights to the documentary called Mayor Pete, putting the film on track for release in the coming months.

The documentary was filmed during Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s historic campaign as one of the first major out candidates for president, before he was nominated and confirmed as the first out Cabinet secretary.

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Mayor Pete “will show Buttigieg at home in Indiana with his husband, Chasten, and go inside the campaign’s early days as well as Buttigieg’s historic, contested victory in the Iowa caucuses,” Variety reports.

Buttigieg, nicknamed as “Mayor Pete” during his two terms as mayor of South Bend, Indiana became a household name in 2019 as the first out Democrat to run for president. He consistently stayed in the primary competition’s upper ranks entering 2020, even as he faced issues that would have ended the political careers of others.

Even at the end of his campaign, when he withdrew his candidacy for the nomination on March 1, he was still one of the top performers out of a massive field of more established candidates. Ultimately though, Buttigieg forced our society – and many around the world – to seriously consider having a gay head of state. Now a documentary will immortalize the history-making run.

Buttigieg ultimately navigated the public exposure that his campaign brought with his husband, Chasten, by his side. He went on to become a fierce advocate for the Biden/Harris campaign, all of which earned him the 2020 LGBTQ Nation Newsmaker of the Year accolade, among others.

On February 2, the Senate confirmed him as Secretary of Transportation by a bipartisan vote, and he was sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris, with Chasten at his side.

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