Do you believe Senator Lindsey Graham is gay?

[politicus]

Lindsey Graham is persistently rumoured to be a closeted gay and are often mocked for it. Do you believe those rumours are true or is he just an asexual that fits a gay stereotype?

[politicus]

Don't know, don't care, and since he hasn't a history of making comments on gay rights (a la Steve King) that would really come back to haunt him if he were, I don't see where it matters.

Graham scores 0% by the Human Rights Campaign on gay rights, he supports a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and voted Yes on banning gay adoptions in DC. You could say that it comes with the territory of being a Southern Republican, but it is still enough to make it relevant whether he is gay or not.

[politicus]

The only complicating factor is that a lot of Southern men seem gay to me.  Maybe it's the accent, I don't know.

Perhaps the "Southern dandy" archetype still lingers in Southern culture?

Could be.  I think it's the accent which seems a bit effeminate, it's the same with people from England. 

There are loads of English accents, which ones do you find effeminate? Received pronounciation?