By Tyler Harris, November 4, 2026
(Warning, not exactly SFW)

"In the summer of 2003, at the age of 18, I found myself sitting in the gallery of the US House of Representatives refusing the advances of a 61-year-old congressman.

It’s all come to the front of my mind lately, a place from which I am wont to arduously push it, in the wake of three men, one of them only 17 at the time, coming forward to share their experiences being paid for sex by Lindsey Graham.

The men’s stories, forming the backbone of the short documentary The CLOSETocracy, posted just over a week ago to The Young Turks youtube channel, share some common features. All were escorts, discovered by Graham online, and contacted through intermediaries to arrange a meeting. The first two men, identified only as Cory and Jesse, were admittedly adults at the time. Their descriptions are of illicit DC encounters, being shepherded to Graham, having him introduce himself with an alias before describing to them the acts he wished them to perform. They describe transactional encounters with a submissive Graham.

The third man, Kelvin, describes something remarkably different. He describes a meeting with Graham, in Arizona at the time for joint events with John McCain, that instantly feels off. He arrives to find plastic sheeting and a filthy mattress that appear to him to be the staged set dressing for the sort of rough encounter he was not comfortable agreeing to. Only 17 years old at the time, he describes Graham, realizing how young he was, becoming agitated and insisting Kelvin state loudly for a poorly concealed camera that he was actually 18. Kelvin recounts matters going from bad to worse, feeling trapped, not wishing to be there, not wishing to be filmed. He describes his relief at Graham’s failed attempts to top, his fear driving a desire to placate, and his eagerness to leave..."

Substack: The GOP’s Teen Boy Problem is Bigger Than Lindsey Graham.