Lindsey Graham is hitting back at Chelsea Handler after she insinuated he’s gay on social media last week.
It all started when Handler posted a tweet on #NationalComingOutDay tweet cracking a gay joke at Graham’s expense.
“If you’re wondering why Republicans took a sick day today, it’s probably because it’s #NationalComingOutDay,” she wrote. “Looking at you @LindseyGrahamSC.”
If you’re wondering why Republicans took a sick day today, it’s probably because it’s #NationalComingOutDay. Looking at you @LindseyGrahamSC
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) October 11, 2018
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Over the weekend, TMZ caught up with Graham at Reagan National Airport and asked him about the remark.
Whilst sipping a sweet tea from Chick-fil-A, the 63-year-old lawmaker brushed off Handler’s remarks, saying “it’s a free country” and “she can say what she wants to say. I don’t care.”
“I don’t think much about what she says at all,” he adds. “If she wants to live her life that way, that’s up to her. She knows zero about me.”
Then, just to clear up any confusion, he added: “To the extent that it matters, I’m not gay.”
Graham added that he does not think the comments “reflect well” on Handler and that “belittling people is not as funny as it used to be.” To which, our only response is this:
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Xzamilloh
This is what I hate… the right knows that perception is 9/10th’s of the law (I know the actual phrase, so spare me “umm, actually” ppl), so they’ve now moved beyond their virulently anti-LGBT rhetoric while not moving beyond it and merely couching their actual feelings behind “social just warrior mobs” and “The intolerant left.”
And idiots like Chelsea Handler give it to them, because for some reason, liberals continue to act like celebrities like her or Kathy Griffin are these political activists. Queerty, it wouldn’t hurt you to showcase SOME informed political opinion pieces that don’t have some gay twist that is more scandal than substantive.
jakejacob
Well, a lot of dems are walking away. I’m one of them. #walkaway
DCguy
@ jakejacob
Except you’re another anti-LGBT troll account. And just a hint, If you’re going to pretend you aren’t don’t use the exact cut and paste phrasing that all the twitter trolls use.
broadshoulder
Chelsea Handler is a piece of poison
Polaro
Not poison. More like the shell of a person left over from too much booze and dope.
jjose712
Whatever, she is still a thousand times better than Lindsay Graham
Polaro
You have a point.
Polaro
Just because no one will touch you does not make you straight.
Nosso Crankee
???
leecee
BOOM!
Kangol
Someone’s touched him. Mike Rogers nearly outed him years ago.
rray63
All I can say is I hope he isn’t gay. That is scary and I’m not all that purty myself.
Kieran
Senator Graham’s exact quote was “to the extent that it matters, I’m not gay.” Translated that means, “it I were an openly gay man I’d never have been elected Senator from South Carolina.”
queerty02
I didn’t think he was gay before… Now I definitely do!
Kangol
Did you see his performance at that Kavanaugh hearing? He was flaming! I thought he was going to burst into George H. W. Bush’s 1,000 points of light he was so on fire with (false) rage about Kavanaugh. I was waiting for one of the Republicans to hand him an Oscar when he was done.
Chipper
What is the saying, “I think he doth protest too much”. The louder he claims not to be, the more people will think he is. There are times when one needs to shut their mouth. But for those that can not, the chips have fallen. Is he, probably, otherwise he would keep his mouth shut, So self centered, he is afraid that someone, will find out his real life. Of who he really is inside. The most closeted individual is the most vocal in opposition and denial.
frankcar1965
He’s a big old Queer and the people that elected him get what they deserve.
Scout
“I think he doth protest too much”. I don’t recall him mentioning his orientation before, and your Shakespearian quote to his denial this time is not apt. He may or may not be gay. I’m sure if he’s had gay sex in the past, somebody is waiting in the wings to write a book about having sex with Lindsey, or he’s paid off his escorts quite well. So far, nobody’s talking. He could be asexual too. I wouldn’t be shocked.
Dick Gozinia
I thought he did a wonderful Leslie Jordan impression during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings.
geb1966
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Best comment on the whole thread.
Kangol
Yes!
StupidBoy
I super-duper wanted Leslie Jordan to play Jeff Sessions on SNL. I think Leslie is hilarious and he would have nailed Sessions faux-Southern-antebellum outrage perfectly.
SnakeyJ
I love how Queerty is offended that Chelsea Handler made the joke in the first place (homophobic!). And are now slamming Lindsey Graham for being “offended” LOL Makes no sense.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
What’s pathetic is there are Gay people on this thread who slam Chealsea who has been a solid 100% outspoken supporter of our community for decades…
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She calls out a Gay man who has voted against our rights and well being for decades….
Mozo83
Thank you, Plays Well! And the author of this piece comes for her with right-winger tweets. I am embarrassed is this is the fight Queerty shows.
Rock-N-RollHS
Didn’t he play Valerie Cherish’s hairstylist on The Comeback??
Bob LaBlah
Both he and Tim Scott (the other single senator from SC) are entitled to their privacy and I hope they keep it that way.
surreal33
Normally I am not a fan of meddling in man’s personal life however, I hope with all my might that vile, inbred, mofo, gets caught with a mouth full of dick.
DCguy
You know how you know that Miss Lindsay is gay?
The fact that hoards of right wing trolls are out in every area of social media clutching their pearls and screaming that it’s homophobic to accuse him of being gay.
They wouldn’t be hysterically trying to deflect that topic if there wasn’t fire beneath all that smoke.