I think it’s less about being gay and more about being unable to pander to the “american family”.
Half the reason Mayo Pete ran for President was that he'd reached a dead end in Indiana under his current label of politics.
He couldn't run as a corporate technocrat waving the LGBT flag because the first was worthless outside neoliberal circles and the second only pissed off majority conservatives.
Since he wasn't any kind of actual populist, with policies people might like or a career lay voters gave a fuck about, he had no way to run for anything above Mayor in a city that voted Blue No Matter Who.
Half the reason Mayo Pete ran for President was that he'd reached a dead end in Indiana under his current label of politics.
He couldn't run as a corporate technocrat waving the LGBT flag because the first was worthless outside neoliberal circles and the second only pissed off majority conservatives.
Since he wasn't any kind of actual populist, with policies people might like or a career lay voters gave a fuck about, he had no way to run for anything above Mayor in a city that voted Blue No Matter Who.