Democrats Ask If Gee Santos Is Really Gay After Report He Married Woman

‘OPENLY GAY’ REP.-ELECT GEE SANTOS DIDN’T DISCLOSE DIVORCE WH WOMAN

Republin ngrsman-elect Gee Santos is unr new scty after a New York Tim report earlier this week unvered a strg of apparent outright fabritns at the heart of some of the most fundamental facts of his life, but that backstory may also be notable for what Santos did not clu—a publicly undisclosed, who claims he has “never experienced discrimatn the Republin Party, ” broke barriers this year when he beme the first openly gay non-cumbent GOP ndidate elected to acrdg to urt rerds obtaed by The Daily Beast, Santos appears to be the subject of a prevly unacknowledged Sept. “I am openly gay, have never had an issue wh my sexual inty the past , and I n tell you and assure you, I will always be an advote for LGBTQ folks, ” Santos told USA Today October, rpondg to cricism about his support for Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay Bill” signed to law this year by GOP Gov. And while his 2022 mpaign b mentns his hband, who acrdg to Santos liv wh him and their four dogs on Long Island, he’s kept this prev marriage out of the public eye ’s entirely possible that Santos, who claims he has “never experienced discrimatn the Republin Party, ” has been livg fortably as an openly gay man for, as he says, more than a .

But Santos’ suatn is cur bee he never disclosed his divorce to voters, and never renciled his prr marriage to a woman—which end jt 12 days before he tablished his first ngrsnal mpaign—wh his claims of beg an out and proud gay, 34, ma his first bid for Congrs 2020, losg to Rep. But followg a New York Tim vtigatn that suggted Santos had fictnalized key elements of his rume, he’s already facg lls to rign, as well as a possible ethics lleg Santos says he attend don’t have a rerd of him; Cigroup and Goldman Sachs don’t eher, though he claimed to work there; the IRS has no rerd of his nonprof; he still fac “unrolved” legal trouble Brazil; his past bs ventur appear flimsy; and even his addrs was lled to rponse to the Tim report, Santos’ attorney Joseph Murray released a statement that, while stoppg short of nyg the accatns, pated his client as a victim, bee he “reprents the kd of progrs that the Left is so threatened by—a gay, Lato, immigrant and Republin who won a Bin district overwhelmg fashn by showg everyday voters that there is a better optn than the broken promis and failed polici of the Democratic Party.

”But the divorce revelatn, and the apparent secrecy around , plit a central piece of the image Santos has burnished as a dynamic and culturally revolutnary an electn season where many of his fellow nservativ spouted nonsensil allegatns of pedophilia among Democrats, targeted benign drag bnch as epicenters for “groomg, ” and flamed a hateful anti-gay and anti-trans movement—as attacks on the LGBTQ muny skyrocketed—Santos ma history as the first non-cumbent gay Republin to ever be elected to after achievg that victory, and jt two weeks before his barrier-breakg guratn, Santos’ relatnship wh the tth is facg tts he somehow dodged for two mpaigns. Santos, who is gay, scribed himself as a New Yorker who recently formed a group, Uned for Tmp, acrdg to a newly surfaced vio clip of the March 2019 event held by the nservative Walk Away then addrsed a nservative transgenr YouTube star, askg her how she “n help te other trans people om not havg to follow the narrative that the media and the Democrats put forward. It was ially schled to be held at the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Communy Center Manhattan, but after an uproar and threats of prott, the center nceled.