I couldn’t find any specific information. Lots of articles and people talking about him being in the closest or not. Nothing specific though, at least not that I could find. Just, he is unmarried and childless.

Anybody know where this came from?

  • RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 months ago

    This came from a gag Jon Stewart used to do on the Daily Show. It started with the Larry Craig scandal. The Daily Show was good at showing hypocrisy in Republican candidates who were anti-LGBT. In the late 2000s, it seemed like there was a story of an anti-gay Republican being outed as gay every month.

    Stewart compared Graham to a melodramatic southern belle and got huge laughs. It stuck. I wan to point out that Jon Stewart never explicitly said Lindsay Graham was gay. But he was an expert at hinting it, and paired with the clips of Lindsay Graham, it was hilarious.

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    7 months ago

    It comes from stories from several DC sex workers. Google Lindsey Graham Ladybugs if you have a strong stomach and want to hear about Graham’s anal warts

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    7 months ago

    From the endless footage of him eye fucking men’s crotches, his setting off every gaydar in a 30 mile radius, and of him being a walking stereotype.

    Also I’m gay and generally speaking? We know another homo when we see one. That man is so deep in the closet he’s been trying to gerrymander Narnia

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    The theory has been floating around for awhile. It’s been pushed by various characters in the GOP over the years, Trump, Huckabee, and others have taken shots at Graham about sexuality when they want to put him on the spot or diminish him. Then in 2020 a DC sex worker made some claims on twitter (look up Sean Harding). More rumors followed online with other posters claiming to have Lindsey Graham sex worker stories.