I Have Something to Tell You — For Young Adults is an adaptation Chasten Glezman Buttigieg's candid memoir about growing up gay in a small Midwestern town.
As a child, Chasten Glezman Buttigieg didn’t always fit in. He felt different from his father and brothers, who loved to hunt and go camping, and out of place in the rural, conservative small town where he lived. Back then, blending in was more important than feeling seen.
So, when Chasten realized he was gay, he kept that part of himself hidden away for a long, painful time. With incredible bravery, and the support of his loved ones, he eventually came out — and when he did, he learned that being true to himself was the most rewarding journey of all.
Chasten joins is to speak about learning to embrace his identity and inspiring young people to do the same.
Chasten Glezman Buttigieg (he/him/his) grew up in Traverse City, Michigan. He is a teacher, advocate and husband of Secretary of Transportation and former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. Chasten currently lives with Pete and their two children, Gus and Penelope, in Northern Michigan.
Chasten will be in conversation with Sunny Hostin, three-time Emmy Award-winning legal journalist, New York Times bestselling author and co-host of The View. She is set to release the second book to her Summer trilogy, Summer on Sag Harbor, on May 2, 2023. In May 2021, Hostin released her debut novel, Summer on the Bluffs (William Morrow), which skyrocketed to #11 on The New York Times Bestseller List and is currently being adapted into a series as the first major project for Sunny Hostin Productions. In the fall of 2020, Hostin released her memoir, I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds, with HarperOne. Hostin has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes Woman, Essence, The CUT, Latina and Ebony, amongst others. A sought-after public speaker, she has spoken at and moderated panels for the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Corporate Counsel Women of Color and the National Bar Association, served as a witness at the Federal Judiciary’s Congressional Hearing for the Public’s Right of Access to the Courts and was she was part of the groundbreaking ABC primetime newscast, Soul of a Nation, the first broadcast network newsmagazine aiming to put Black life in America front and center. Hostin lives with her husband and two children in New York.