Come Out Lindsay Graham the Waters Are Warm

It’s been my experience that those that take the time and effort and sometimes the chance to call other people names, particularly names that have to do with one sexuality have a Kok in the ring. Be that as it may I was surprised when femme in words and in mannerisms the Senator from South Carolina Lindsay Graham as resorted to calling his contender for the job Nance Mace’s a ’Nancy boy" which is an offensive slang in the South meaning “effeminate men.”

May be he was trying to say that she looks masculine to him, the thing is that he looks Femme to most of us.  Why does an effeminate men calls a woman a Nancy boy? Well, I remember when I was in the closet I used to call attention to effeminate men and make jokes about gays only to reflect attention away from me. Why would he be making fun of his own kind? The thing is we know the kind Lindsay Graham is and is not just me or people like me. This is a quote from the tea party about him:

At a Tea Party rally in 2010, ALITPAC leader William Gheen told the crowd homosexuality is "a secret that Lindsey Graham has," further stating, "I hope this secret isn’t being used as leverage over Senator Graham, so today I think Senator Graham, you need to come forward and tell people about your alternative lifestyle and your homosexuality.”

 This new twist and turn of Lindsay is not going to go his swinging way. Below is what Edge Boston wrote about this marvelous situation. I could not be happier that he is decided or something inside of him is decided to come out little by little. Why Should he come Out? He should come out because he has been a hypocrite in dealing with issues dealing with gays such as DOMA, DADT, gay marriage, AIDS funding and many other things. These are things that we would never tolerate from a gay politician to be hurting us at every opportunity.

People that are in the closet, not quietly but working against their fellow human beings and sexual partners need to be exposed for what they are. 

 Tea Party:

The South Carolina GOP Senate primary just got a whole lot more interesting. Incumbent Lindsey Graham has been guarding against an attack from the right wing of the party because he’s insufficiently delusional to satisfy the base. (He’s still a crank.) What he may not have prepared for was an attack on his heterosexual creds. One of his primary opponents, Nancy Mace, retweeted a tweet from a Florida supporter that included the sentiment “Nancy Mace vs Nancy boy Graham,” presumably because she agreed with it.

Mace deleted the tweet after ten minutes, apparently unaware that nothing ever disappears from the internet. Her campaign did not respond to media requests for comment. Mace, the first female graduate from the Citadel military academy, is a Tea Party favorite who has criticized Graham for being insufficiently conservative and, now, insufficiently straight.

The tweet raises a delicate issue for Graham, who has long been dogged by gay rumors. Bloggers regularly refer to him as Huckleberry Closetcase. Graham, who has never married, keeps having to deny that he is gay to a variety of media sources, including GQ (not exactly the straightest magazine on the newsstand) and The New York Times. Tea Party activists, who have the same kind of weakness for conspiracy theories that closeted Republican Senators have for bathroom sex, have alleged that Graham is nice to the Obama administration (i.e., he acknowledges Obama is president) only because he’s being blackmailed by the Kenyan Socialist cabal that knows he is gay.

Needless to say, Graham is unalterably opposed to anything gay, at least in legislative terms. He was against including protections for same-sex bi-national couples in immigration reform, opposes marriage equality, and has a 15% rating from the Human Rights Campaign, which is about 30 percentage points too high for the Tea Party’s taste.

The South Carolina primary is not until June 10, 2014. Given that Mace just launched her campaign a few days ago, it promises to be an interesting ten months.

Come out Lindsay you Nancy boy, the waters are warm now!

Adam Gonzalez