By The Free Press | Created at 2026-07-18 17:22:22 | Updated at 2026-08-03 06:15:32
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The ‘Gay’ Attacks on Lindsey Graham Are All About Politics
As is depressingly the case these days when a public figure dies, a chorus of voices reveled in Graham’s passing. (David Hume Kennerly via Getty Images)
We may never know about the late senator’s sexuality. But those who question it do so to punish him for his hawkish and conservative views.
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Was Lindsey Graham gay? As the author of a book about the history of gay Washington, D.C., it’s a question I’ve been asked frequently for years, and even more so since his sudden death last weekend. The South Carolina Republican’s lifelong confirmed bachelorhood, vocal intonation, and Southern dandy demeanor (if not sartorial choices) prompted many to conclude that he was, as they say in that part of the country, “light in his loafers.” Graham’s repeated attestations to the contrary had zero effect on those invested in the narrative that he was. Only about the matter of J. Edgar Hoover’s rumored cross-dressing (for which there is some circumstantial but no direct evidence) am I questioned more.
Whenever I’ve been asked to speculate upon Graham’s sexuality—and speculate was all that I or anyone else could do—I always answered the question honestly.
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