LADY G and his LADYBUGS. Who missed out?

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So this is one of those weird stories that -- as yet at least -- is entirely unsubstantiated, and may very well stay that way forever. As such, you should put a big ol' allegedly in front of pretty much everything that follows, at least until we have more information. As it stands, though...

Gay adult film star Sean Harding tweeted the following on June 4th.

There is a homophobic republican senator who is no better than Trump who keeps passing legislation that is damaging to the lgbt and minority communities. Every sex worker I know has been hired by this man. Wondering if enough of us spoke out if that could get him out of office?

I cannot do this alone. If you’d be willing to stand with me against LG please let me know.

(I cannot stress how much you should avoid his Twitter if you're at work. He's a gay adult film star, and his Twitter feed is not shy about the fact.)

There is only one current Senator with the initials LG: Lindsey Graham, Senior Senator from South Carolina and Chair of the Judiciary Committee. Graham was also a candidate for President in 2016, but dropped out before the primaries started due to lack of support. (He was famously critical of Donald Trump on the campaign trail and beyond, but has in recent years been one of Trump's staunchest allies. You may recognise him from the Trump impeachment, if nowhere else.)

>>508903634 (OP)
I read that in Mr Roger's voice, desu

Graham's voting record on LGBT issues has not been favourable: he's historically been in favour of a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, he voted to ban gay adoptions, he co-sponsored a constitutional amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman, and he's been given a 0% rating by the Human Rights Council, indicating a distinctly anti-LGBT stance. (There are suggestions he might have softened slightly in recent years; he defended Pete Buttigieg when Rush Limbaugh suggested that Pete kissing his husband was 'confusing for children', and has noted that gay marriage is a settled issue, but you'd still hardly call him an ally of the cause.)

So, why is this a big deal now? Well, Graham's sexual orientation has been the subject of speculation for a long time, largely due to being unmarried and having no children, but also due to a perceived effiminacy. The difference is that this time people are claiming that there are NDAs in place:

The gay internet is exploding over #LindseyGraham today.
An Army of gay escorts are claiming, Lindsay has used their services for years and are trying to figure out how to get around the NDA he has them all sign.
It is rumored that DC male escorts now Senator Graham as "Lady G"

As such, 'Lady G' is rapidly trending all over the internet.

Now, there are a couple of things to note here. Firstly, as yet this is all speculation; there's no -- for want of a better phrase -- smoking gun. Secondly, these are NDAs regarding sex work, which (as I understand it at least) is an illegal activity in most of the US, which would make any NDA legally unenforceable; if these escorts exist, the rumoured NDAs would not necessarily be enough to protect this particular secret, so the (numerous) attorneys on Twitter who've offerered to take a look at them may uncover a loophole or similar that allows the signatory to talk freely. (Again, whether these NDAs even exist is hard to be sure of; Broadway producer Tom D'Angora seems to think they do, as above, but it's hard to verify unless you have access to the kind of people who would be signing them, and I don't have a lot of gay American escorts in my contact list. More's the pity.)

Thirdly, however, is the fact that this would come under the category of 'outing' -- announcing someone's LGBT status to the world before they're ready and with their permission -- which is considered a real dick move by most of the LGBT community. For some people, even Graham (despite his anti-LGBT history) deserves better than this; for others, his harmful votes and use of his voice against the LGBT community has made it an acceptable course of action. Comedian Fortune Feimster, herself a lesbian, tweeted:

I don’t believe in outing anyone. It’s that person’s journey and they should get to decide when to share that information or not. However, if you’ve spent your career actively fighting against the rights of gay people, you forgo the right to keep that secret to yourself. #LadyG

Dan Savage and Roxane Gay also expressed support -- although not without coming in for criticism from at least some of their followers.

>>508903634 (OP)
>>508903690
Bruh what the fuck

So, is it true? We don't know. It's one of those stories that seems so open-secret plausible that even the fact that there's such vanishingly-little evidence for it -- it's literally just the word of a couple of Twitter accounts as yet -- doesn't seem enough to stand in its way. Part of the reason for this goes beyond Graham himself. It if did turn out to be true that he was hiring male prostitutes, it would fit into a fairly significant pattern among GOP representatives and gay sex scandals:

In 2006, Congressman Mark Foley quit after sending sexually explicit messages to teenage former pages.

In 2007, Senator Larry Craig was arrested for lewd conduct in a men's restroom at the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport. (Cottaging, in other words.)

In 2010, noted anti-gay activist George Alan Rekers hired a male escort to -- as he claimed -- carry his luggage through an airport. (He also claimed he was trying to convert the escort away from a life of homosexuality, which... yeah, no one really bought.)

... and so on, and so on. The idea of a closeted conservative Republican who gets caught enjoying the company of men -- or too-young boys, in the case of Speaker Dennis Hastert, among others -- while actively campaigning against LGBT rights is one that has popped up time and time again over the past two decades.

Whether Graham is going to join those storied ranks is, currently, up in the air.

>>508903744
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The Hand Rubbing:
https://youtu.be/L7u0y-iU82w?&t=110

>>508903962
So how long did he rub his hands and is it a world record?