Is sen graham gay

“The Daily Show” aimed a zinger at Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) Wednesday in a segment about shrinking corporate support for Celebration month. (Watch the video below.)

After a news clip indicated that some companies still contribute to the festivities but ask to remain anonymous, host Desi Lydic joked:

“C’mon, secretly paying gays because you’re ashamed? You’re major corporations, not Lindsey Graham.”

The bachelor has been the subject of rumors about his sexuality for years but declared “I ain’t gay” in a 2010 interview with The New York Times Magazine.

Viewers took note of Lydic’s joke on the YouTube channel where the segment was shared.

“That clear hand slap across Lindsey Graham’s face lol,” one person wrote.

“The Lindsey Graham line almost killed me,” said another.

Graham’s communications director did not immediately respond to a HuffPost seek for comment.

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The sad, closeted hypocrisy of Lindsey Graham

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Lindsey Graham

—10.11.20—Responds to LGBTQ voter asking about how his marriage to his husband and other LGBTQ rights will be defended, Sen. Graham defends people opposed to marriage equality as “not bigots” and “not neanderthals” and tells the voter, “I’ve tried to be tolerant.”

—10.12.20—Opens hastened proof hearings of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court with active COVID-19 infections among Judiciary Committee members. Chairman Graham refuses to hold a COVID-19 test to ensure the safety of a debate with his challenger or the protection of the confirmation hearings. Sen. Graham had pledged in 2016 that Supreme Court nominations should not be made in an election year. Millions of Americans are early voting in the 2020 election, and polls show Americans want the winner of the 2020 election to nominate the next Supreme Court justice. Chairman Graham asks Barrett how landmark rulings like Obergefell could be overturned.

—10.14.20—In day three of the Barrett hearings, attempts to link the Court’s landmark marriage equality ruling to legalizing polygamy. Chairman Graham had also attempted this question and linkage in 2015.

—06.03.20—Signs terse to U.S. Supreme

At 52, the life-long bachelor has been fodder for such rumors for years, but with the resignation of Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho — the anti-gay politician who pled responsible to disorderly conduct after allegedly soliciting sex in an airport men’s room — the internet is abuzz over who’s next, and they’re dying to know what’s going on in Graham’s bedroom. Is it the latest grasp for the light switch in South Carolina’s strong political closet? Or the inevitable labeling of “closet-clinging self-hater” that befalls any content bachelor?

Mainstream media often avoids asking older, free politicians what they accomplish in their free day. While there were rumors dating back 25 years, it wasn’t until blog reports about Craig trolling cruisy D.C. restrooms that The Idaho Statesmen set a reporter on the story. And even though they held the story until after Craig’s arrest was made public, some still accused the document of orchestrating a witch hunt.

When GQ asked last year, Graham wasn’t denote , just dismissive. He said he’s not gay, just a loner. But that denial isn’t stalling renewed interest in the ask. In a post