Lady G: Ldsey Graham Was Acced of Hirg Gay Sex Workers

Contents:

• LDSEY GRAHAM SAYS 'I'M NOT GAY' AFTER CHELSEA HANDLER TROLLS HIM ON NATNAL COMG OUT DAY
• WHO IS ‘LADY G’? LDSEY GRAHAM IS BEG ACCED OF HIRG GAY SEX WORKERS
• PATTI LUPONE TELLS SEN. LDSEY GRAHAM TO 'BE THE BULLET AND COME OUT' AS GAY
• CHELSEA HANDLER BLASTED FOR ‘ANTI-GAY’ LDSEY GRAHAM TWEET

LDSEY GRAHAM SAYS 'I'M NOT GAY' AFTER CHELSEA HANDLER TROLLS HIM ON NATNAL COMG OUT DAY

Senator Ldsey Graham has spoken out about his sexualy after Chelsea Handler suggted he was gay. When asked if he thought Handler was parg "homosexualy to beg evil, " or beg homophobic as some had cricized her for beg for makg a joke about someone beg gay, Graham poted out he was not gay. To the extent that matters, I'm not gay, " he explaed.

"Why is there such a gulf unrstandg this fact: beg gay is not somethg to shame or embarrass someone wh, " one er wrote. "There is no shame beg gay. There's no exce to hi you're gay today's society, unls you're a homophobe.

She gets plac filled wh gay people and she mak jok about them. This is not the first time that Handler has attacked the senator on social media and said he was gay. Anger at some of the most egreg of the racist, sexist, homophob, elected by Republins, wng their districts to the triment of the voters who elect them.

WHO IS ‘LADY G’? LDSEY GRAHAM IS BEG ACCED OF HIRG GAY SEX WORKERS

Ined, she now says that only homophob would thk that’s what she meant. 'Cooper, who is gay, lled Graham's sexual orientatn 'an open secret' and asserted, whout evince, that 'there's a strong likelihood that he's beg blackmailed by the Rsians. ' Graham shocked observers by unleashg his fury on Democrats at the Kavangh heargsGraham, a lifelong bachelor, has flatly nied mors that he is gay.

'To the extent that matters, I'm not gay, ' Graham said October, rpondg to a tweet om edian Chelsea Handler implyg that he was everyone was imprsed wh the speculatn that Graham is beg blackmailed, however. 'Many MSNBC hosts & punds are trapped a Tom Clancy novel, where everyone is an 'asset' & 'has been turned' & is beg blackmailed, ' wrote journalist Glenn Greewald, who is openly gay, on Twter. Bee I've been wrg this lumn for several years, and get to talk to lots of amazg people, my iends, mostly the straight on, like to quiz me about who's gay, who's not, and who's the fishg expedn is mostly generatnal, sce 's mostly my ntemporari who quire about the sexualy of celebri and policians.

Those of who are LGBTQ+ and over 50, still look on wh low-level shock when someone we know announc they are straight people this mographic, beg gay, or beg the closet is still somethg that they sensatnalize. He's often acced of gay- bag, but if he were to e out tomorrow and say he was a relatnship wh a man, most young people would simply ngratulate him.

PATTI LUPONE TELLS SEN. LDSEY GRAHAM TO 'BE THE BULLET AND COME OUT' AS GAY

When I worked there, I, like many, knew who was the closet maly bee we'd see them a gay bar or knew someone that had a relatnship wh them. There really were no secrets on the example, most of knew former Wisns ngrsman Steve Gunrson was gay before he was outed on the Hoe floor.

Bob Dornan joked about Gunrson on the floor of the Hoe of Reprentativ durg a bate on a bill that would have disuraged school districts om adoptg gay-iendly curricula.

CHELSEA HANDLER BLASTED FOR ‘ANTI-GAY’ LDSEY GRAHAM TWEET

"Clearly, we were livg different and difficult tim regardg public officials beg openly gay, " Gunrson told me. "At that time, there was no procs for g out as gay, nor were there any pretermed exampl and parameters about how to e out. And, this year, for the first time ever, two gay men, one a Republin and one a Democrat, are nng for Congrs New York's Third Congrsnal be sure, not everyone is out.

Whether they choose to rema the closet might be for several reasons, bee they're fearful of the reactns of their nstuents, that they still thk beg gay is a srlet letter, or out of some ep seed self-loathg which sometim n pot, former Illois Republin ngrsman Aaron Schock. He was on a trajectory to be a risg star the party, when he began to unravel, all the while nyg mors that he was gay. Everyone who I knew who still worked on or around the Hill knew he was gay, so when he me out, that wasn't a surprise.

Translatg that to Congrs, that would allow for at least 30 queer members, which means that a very theoretil hypothis, 19 are hidg the, that brgs to what you've all been wag for, ever sce the tle of this lumn drew you -- is Senator Ldsey Graham gay? In fact, to me this whole dance around Graham's sexualy seems more like a sophmoric joke, pecially wh that unfortable "Lady G" nickname that trends on Twter every other fact that he may or may not be gay, to me, seems far ls important than the herent danger he creat his job as a bachelor senator. His reversal, and his dacy to thor a bill on behalf of women, when he is a loutish, 67-year-old whe man who has never been married, never fathered a child, alt wh a pregnancy, alt wh a wife whose life was jeopardy bee of a pregnancy, or a dghter whose future was , a real man wouldn't be this 's sexualy might be private, and the jok about juvenile and tged wh homophobia, but his efforts at tearg the fabric of Amerin mocracy is far more offensive.