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Three male escorts in a new documentary have alleged that late Republican Senator Lindsey Graham paid them for sexual encounters, including one who says he was 17 at the time.

The CLOSETocracy, produced by Swamp Watch Studios and Tystnaden Films and released by the left-wing Young Turks network, features testimony from men who say Graham paid them for sexual encounters in Arizona and Washington, D.C. The allegations have not been independently corroborated.

One of the men, identified in the documentary as Kelvin, alleges he met Graham at a property in Arizona in 2001, when he was 17. He claims Graham paid him $120 for the encounter.

“My name is Kelvin. I had sex with Lindsey Graham when I was 17,” he says in the documentary.

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[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 points 20 hours ago

I'm not criticizing them for coming forward. They deserve support. I just don't see a point in the media focusing attention on this after he's dead. Their are far too many still living problems to deal with to be dividing focus towards dead ones.

[-] velma@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago

Victims should be able to tell their story in their own time without criticism.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 20 hours ago

I'm not criticizing the victims. I'm criticizing the media. This stuff was already known while he was alive if they wanted to dig into it.

[-] velma@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

Your initial comment was too vague, gonna be real with you.

There's a lot of victim blaming that happens on Lemmy. Like.....a lot.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 20 hours ago

Fair enough. Sorry about that.

[-] Stormy@thelemmy.club 2 points 20 hours ago

They were probably paid to shut up until now.

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