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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 confirmation 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 take a COVID-19 test to ensure the protection of a debate with his challenger or the guard of the approval hearings. Sen. Graham had pledged in 2016 that Supreme Court nominations should not be made in an election year. Millions of Americans are preliminary 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 judgments like Obergefell could be overturned.

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

—06.03.20—Signs brief to U.S. Supreme

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Let’s begin with Aaron Schock, while I have your attention.

First elected in 2008, he’s the disgraced, former Republican congressman from Illinois who stood against LGBTQ rights — including voting against “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal, and coming out against marriage equality — though it was an open confidential in Washington and in queer circles that he was gay throughout that entire time. There was discussion that he was male lover even before the White House picnic in 2010 and the photo of him in pale pants, teal belt and pink gingham shirt that went viral, but he’d denied it in 2004 in an interview.

The youngest person elected to Congress when he took office in 2009, Schock was allowed to present himself in the media as a bachelor whose college friends had all married while he was too busy in politics — but who would presumably marry when the right woman came along.

And yet, the open covert persisted.

The sad, closeted hypocrisy of Lindsey Graham

There are a lot of conversations in the LGBTI group about Prides becoming “too commercial,” but what about grassroots, leftist radical Prides? Well, the notion of community-organized, grassroots Prides is amazing, but unfortunately, it is very human to make mistakes.

While big LGBTI Prides that are organized with help from businesses are trying to be inclusive, grassroots Prides have sometimes gone too far in their efforts to create an “edgy,” rebellious atmosphere. Some slogans that contain been used at “independent” Prides create more problems than they solve, making these events non inclusive and unacceptable for a large part of the LGBTI community.

I believe in intersectionality. I was one of the very few activists in Russia who began writing and speaking about the need for intersectional approaches in the LGBTI community — speaking up for neurodivergent, disabled, non-white, Muslim, and Jewish LGBTI people. In the U.K., I’m part of various groups supporting LGBTI refugees.

And this is why I see that some up-to-date attempts by Western LGBTI activists to be mindful of other forms of oppression have actually excluded people fr

“The Daily Show” aimed a zinger at Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) Wednesday in a segment about shrinking corporate support for Identity festival 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 unseal 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 ask for for comment.

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