Antigay Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and antigay Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida have been at each other’s throats for the past week after she voted to impeach former President Donald Trump in the House of Representatives.
Gaetz was so offended by Cheney’s vote that he called on her step down as House Republican Conference chair then announced plans to visit her home state for an event happening at the Wyoming State Capitol later today.
Upon learning of Gaetz’s plans to come to Wyoming, a spokesperson for Cheney’s office put out a statement making a homophobic jab at the 38-year-old lawmaker, saying, “Rep. Gaetz can leave his beauty bag at home. In Wyoming, the men don’t wear make-up.”
We would expect nothing less from a woman who, despite having a lesbian sister, still opposes marriage equality and holds a score of “0” on HRC’s Congressional Scorecard.
Gaetz, who identifies as straight and is engaged to a woman, has long been the subject of gay rumors. He, too, holds a score of “0” on HRC’s Congressional Scorecard.
Since supporting Trump’s second impeachment, Cheney has faced backlash from her constituents, 70% of whom voted for Trump in 2020. She already has a 2022 primary challenger, and over 50,000 people have signed a Change.org petition to “recall” her.
As for Gaetz, he said on Twitter last weekend that he’s not eyeing Cheney’s job, nor is he “seeking a position in House Leadership,” but he thinks “Wyoming can do better.”
If you ask us, the entire country can do better than these two clowns.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
jmg619
How’s saying “leave his beauty bag” at home homophobic? What? Straight guys don’t have a beauty bag, which they don’t obviously call it that but still. And I’m sorry but ya don’t think some gays have a beauty bag? Most gay men wear more rouge than most women do!
Cam
Interesting since I don’t know any gay men who use rouge. And I didn’t know anybody younger than 80 called it that.
Den
Your comment pretty much identifies you as hetero.
Most gay men never wear makeup, have never been in drag, are no identifiable on the street by twits like you.
Go away breeder boy!
Fname Optional Lname
what’s rouge? Isn’t that what women in the 50’s put on their cheeks to give color to their pasty white skin? Is it still called that? sounds like someone has aged themselves and maybe dabbled in a little covergirl in her day
Brian
That was clearly her intent. Just like most stereotypes, it’s separate from facts.
LifeinShaw
While awful, I’m fine with it. Matt is a terrible person and if this embarrases him then I’m all for it.
Joe Gooch
Pig
ted72
I hope gaetz have a reunion with his idol Hitler. Covid /cancer /ebola, do your best work on him.
Cam
I feel about this the way I feel about people calling Lindsay Graham “Lady G”. I’m ok with it.
Low Country Boy
I agree. I am from Charleston. I seriously do not know of a single person who admits to having voted for him. we call him Aunt Pitty-Pat down here.
Creamsicle
Is anyone actually pitching the notion that Gaetz is a closeted gay man? I thought we only tried to draft hot guys.
Gaetz looks like his face is in the process of catching up to his liver.
cuteguy
If he’s not seeking a leadership position, then why is he going to Wyoming? It’s like Lady Lindsay G interfering with Georgia. All this so they can please their lord Trump
pavel20
I’m no fan of Liz Cheney’s, and that comment could just have easily been a dig about his vanity.
whatsaywhat
I thought Liz Cheney was a man from Wyoming wearing makeup.
LMG
I took the comment from Cheney more as a statement throwing shade on Gaetz’s narcissism. Gaetz and Hawley remind me of the old adage: “They think that they’re hot shit when they’re really cold piss.”
Monkey1
I thought the saying was “You think you’re hot sh*t but you’re just cold diarrhea”?
Liquid Silver
I heard it as, “You think you’re hot *#&@ on a silver platter. You’re really cold dung on a paper plate.”
Joe Gooch
No LGM… You think your sh*t doesn’t stink but your farts give you away. You’ll never be the man Matt is you couldn’t stand up to a pile of?
yendor808
Liz Cheney gets up every day and coats her ugly mug with Prep H to tighten the wrinkles. Her attacks on delusional and f–ktard Gaetz are warranted. The more republithug infighting the better. Let them devour one another with their hate and venom.
Den
What I don’t get is how a woman like this thinks it isn’t ridiculous looking to spackle and paint her face every day. Yet it’s ridiculous for a man to have even half the obvious vanity she does.
dhmonarch89
It’s been reported that Gaetz DOES travel with a make up case… not a fan of Liz or her dad, but at least she’s doing the right thing on Trump, that’s what this fight is about, so I’m supporting her in this ONE instance.
Kangol2
Both Liz Cheney and Matt Gaetz are grotesque, but let’s not forget, Don the Con regularly wore more makeup than Dolly Parton on any given day and he was anything but gay so I’m not sure that this particular charge of homophobia holds.
MarjoriesDooDoo
Ooooooooh……..Lez Cheney………..speaking of a beauty bag…..that neck is flopping fast and hard on her …….she needs a truckload of products, rubber bands and cement to tighten up that ugly face……speaking of ugly/…..Matt Gaetz….hmmmm…..NO, he would not get this juiciness but…..at 3 am and everyone is even fuglier, would ya??? ..Maybe….but I’d scream afterward and never admit to the awful deed…..of banging a Howdy Doody Doo Doo….
Derek Northcutt
Not really a “homophobic dig” in my judgment. She just called him a sissy, and that is what he is: a priss without any basic courage just like his idol the Floridian-in-exile.
missvamp
no fan of either. but anyone dissing his sorry ass- i’m happy about it.
Phillip
Both of them deserve to be thrown out of their party. They are a disgrace.
ScottOnEarth
Yep – two hideous, regressive, bigoted dummies.
TheMarc
Homophobic? Not so much. Toxic, antiquated and ignorant for sure. Men all along the sexual spectrum use “beauty bags” or more appropriately named, grooming kits. Doesn’t make them any less or more of a man. I do not want to give the impression that I defending Rep. Gaetz; but the language Rep. Cheney used is just silly and unnecessary. Now if she took a dig at his “son”…that’s a whole different story, haha!
Derek Northcutt
I’d forgotten about his “son,” whom he loves very much.
inbama
Boy, I miss the days when gay men would throw self-deprecating lines at each other like that.
I don’t care if she’s homophobic. At least we can defeat bigots with our votes.
Gaetz supports a wannabe dictator who would have us lose our votes to armed insurrectionists. That is much, much worse.
BOB K
BELIEVE IT OR NOT – NOT HOMOPHOBIC.-
OK, you could stretch it to “possibly homophobic”
Someone at Queerty is confused because this asshole has gay rumors with evidence.
MATT GAETZ WAS RECENTLY PUT DOWN FOR USING TOO MUCH MAKEUP FOR TV APPEARANCES
Liz Cheney is also a flaming asshole but she does have a gay sister
Paulie P
She can say whatever she wants. She stood up against the a-hole who is now twice impeached. No one I know would be offended by her comments as it is far from homophobic.
Stirring the pot once again with misleading headlines.