I don’t think Graham should be defined by his sexuality, I think he should be remembered for the damage he did to people’s lives.
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Lindsey is a fucking monster and the world is a better place now that he is dead. Rest in piss fucker.
*was a fucking monster FTFY <3
Wikipedia editors be like this.
But he was sooo funny, even Democrats thought he was funny! Such a sense of humor, he could make anyone laugh! It doesn't matter that he's a warmongering, flip-flopping, Trump cocksucker.
MAGAs are monsters.
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Ooooh... PISS! He wrote PISS! Not peace. Continue, my good man! 🫡
Thanks for keeping quiet while he ruined the lives of people in your community.
Stand up work. Real brave saying something about it after he dies and did all the years of damage.
Could have maybe changed that.
Wouldn't it have been just easier to come out gay and just live your life? I mean with that money and power, you can afford to fuck the haters. A lot of young lgbtqia kids aren't so lucky.
When you spend a lifetime building walls you find yourself in a very small box of your own making.
He was from S Carolina and got his senate seat by replacing the retired segregationist, Strom Thurman. He chose political power over being open about his sexual orientation. He was old and made the trade off.
Self hating gay man replaces racist segregationist who had a black daughter.
The hypocrisy just keeps on rolling.
*South Carolina
Oh!… I’ll correct it 👍
Kinky
Never heard a mime complain about it though.
Fear is a helluva thing. It's pretty much what drives the bulk of the right.
And that's when it's confirmed that sex workers earn every penny.
You don't pay for the sex. You pay for the silence.
I suspect that his self-loathing and a desire to compensate for this public persona fueled his rage-filled drive to kill, maim, and destroy people at an ever increasing rate. You can’t be as sociopathic a person as Graham was, without some profound internal strife. What a profoundly tragic and pathetic asshole.
I feel bad for anyone trapped in a situation where you can't be your authentic self and live out your best life in the open, but Graham made his bed, was a fucking horrible human being and I hope he had a miserable life. Good riddance.
“People loooooove to judge us for it but I never see them opening their wallets!!! Shout out to s*x workers everywhere forced to humanize their enemies just to make rent,” she continued. “It is an absolute mindfvck too me that one of the reasons I have any semblance of financial security (& a lack of student loans) is because of this man.”
“To the extent that it matters, I’m not gay.”
What a verbose way of saying "I'm gay"
Could he have been bisexual? Technically not gay, and not straight either.
"What I told you was true, from a certain point of view."
I'm torn. On the one hand it's horrible thinking of an LGBT+ person being so filled with self hatred that they have to live a lie. Speaking anecdotally, it can lead to these men hurting men they have sex with cos that man knows his "dirty secret" and the self loathing spills out onto them. But at the same time Graham was filled with hate and caused a lot of pain. So I'm torn.
He directed his self-hate to the world and caused immeasurable damage. Any empathy he'd otherwise get from me is negated.
If it had just lived and died in the closet, your feelings here would make sense. The story would be heart breaking.
It was the enemy. It wanted to exploit the victims of its career. Like an ss officer with a fetish for Jewish men.
No mercy, no decorum. It was the enemy, it is dead, and that's a good thing. If shame is really that powerful, fucking use it.
Fuck this person. Why now, when it doesn’t matter anymore?
Self preservation. If people told the truth while he was alive he could have persecuted them in some way ... he was powerful and rich.
If the me too movement taught us anything, it's that justice is fleeting, and the machinery of persecution will just continue through other means.
Probably better to have a closeted "gay" man in office than an actual straight man with literally zero empathy for us. I don't really agree with the line of thought, but it's a possible reason I could think of.
Right, cause Lady G did so much for the community.../s
I was so confused reading the headline.
Edit— My mistake! I misread the title and didn't do a double-check as to who we were talking about.
Corny joke has been rescinded because I did not mean it in the way that it came off. Sorry about that.
Could have released some evidence of this back when it actually mattered.
It never mattered. Being gay was never relevant. If he'd been out, it wouldn't have changed a thing, any more than being a black Republican matters. Once they go right, they're all just corrupt treasonous pedophiles.
Oh yeah, releasing stuff against one of the best political buddies of the orange Dispute while the US administration is going out of its way to erase LGBTQ rights.
It's just that easy.