===LGBT role models and child pornography===
[[File:Patrick Wojahn Pete Buttigieg.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Buttigieg's close friend Patrick Wojahn received a 30 year prison sentence for child pornography in November 2023.<ref>https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/11/21/pete-buttigieg-mentee-n2390037</ref>]]
Patrick Wojahn, the first openly [[homosexual]] mayor of his city of College Park, Md., boasted about being “mentored” by Pete Buttigieg after the two met in 2015 at the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting in [[Washington, D.C.]], where Wojahn explained that Buttigieg “was assigned to be my buddy.” The two men discussed “the difficulties of being an openly gay mayor, with Buttigieg sharing with his mentee the story of his coming out while serving in office,” he explained in a 2019 interview. They have maintained a good relationship since then.