South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, swearing in program, January 2012

Description:	Program from the swearing in ceremony of the 2012 South Bend Common Council and Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Spurred on by passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act by the Indiana State Legislature, Mayor Pete announced in a June 2015 essay published in the South Bend Tribune that he is gay. He was the first openly gay mayor of an Indiana city.
Origin:	2012-01-01
Source:	http://michianamemory.sjcpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16827coll4/id/2800
Collection:	Civil Rights and African American History
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Subjects:	Gay men--Legal status, laws, etc.--Indiana South Bend (Ind.)--History

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