The Free Press85%
The ‘Gay’ Attacks on Lindsey Graham Are All About Politics 68%
By James Kirchick93%
7/15/2026, 11:29:58 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Hasty Generalization, and Recency Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 48.3% saturation with 128 hits. Analysis detected 892 faulty-reasoning hits from 265 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 62.5% and a BS Rank of 68% (5,197 of 16,189 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 67.90% of the article peer group.
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 much 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.
While my personal sense is that Graham was probably gay, as a journalist and a historian I cannot rely on my intuition to make factual assertions.
(Gaydar hasn’t yet been scientifically perfected.)
Given the absence of any known female or male romantic interests, Graham may very well have been a heterosexual unlucky in love.
He might also have been asexual.
Barring the highly unlikely postmortem emergence of a personal diary or some other unassailable evidence attesting to Graham’s innermost yearnings, we will never know the answer.
As is depressingly the case these days when a public figure dies, a chorus of voices reveled in Graham’s passing, many of them making light of his presumed homosexuality.
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