December 22, 2020
“Don’t let anybody tell you that O’Hare isn’t romantic,” Pete Buttigieg said in his remarks last week, when it was announced that he was President-elect Biden’s pick for the cabinet position of transportation secretary. He then went on to note that he proposed to his husband, Chasten, in a terminal at the Chicago airport.
What he didn’t mention was that the precise proposal spot was Gate B5. The
Washington Post dating and relationships writer Lisa Bonos recently offered a deep dive into this romantic little tidbit and the events that led up to it. Read her retelling for all the sweeter-than-sweet details about how the couple met, and how Gate B5 has become a sort of hallowed ground, an inanimate but all-important character in this couple’s unique love story. (Bonos has spent time reading Chasten’s memoir,