'Mayor Pete' Gets Married, Then Takes His Husband to a Parade.

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'Though Cupid appears in many guises it is safe to say he has seldom taken the form of a hard-boiled, deep-fried, sausage-wrapped cholesterol depth charge called a Scotch egg. Yet there, on their first real-time date in September 2015, at the Fiddler’s Hearth pub in South Bend, Ind., were Peter Buttigieg, 36, and Chasten Glezman, 28, and there, alongside a pint of Irish cider and an icy draft Guinness, not the usual pretzels or beer nuts but an order of Mr. Buttigieg’s favorite bar snack.

“He said, “You’ve got to try these,’” said Mr. Glezman, a junior high school teacher at a Montessori Academy in nearby Mishawaka, Ind. “It was a kind of magical moment. I mean, sure, it’s a fried ball of meat with an egg in the middle, but when it came to the table my little Midwestern heart leapt.”

The Scotch egg turned out to be an early indicator of compatibility for the couple.

“Once I saw he was down for the Scotch egg, I knew it had a shot,” said Mr. Buttigieg, who is the mayor of South Bend.

Far from being just the out-gay mayor of a scrappy rebounding Rust Belt city, Mr. Buttigieg is a singular politician: a Democrat in a Republican stronghold; a high school valedictorian who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard and who also attended Oxford as a Rhodes scholar; a political comer who, after winning election at 29, quickly set about reversing an economic decline in this northern Indiana city, where the last Studebaker rolled off a South Bend assembly line in 1963; a Navy veteran who, in 2014, took an unusual leave-of-absence from his civic day job to serve a tour of duty in Afghanistan. . .

In the Crowd David Axelrod was in attendance with his wife, Susan Landau, along with the mayors of Austin, Tex.; Cincinnati; and West Sacramento, Calif., along with an impressive group of uniformed military officers. Also at the wedding: Robert Weil, editor in chief of Liveright, a division of W.W. Norton & Company (which is publishing Mr. Buttigieg’s coming book); Joe E. Kernan, the former governor of Indiana; and Steve Luecke, the former mayor of South Bend.'

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