Is Lindsay “not gay” the way that other Senator who liked tap dancing in the airport restrooms “not gay?” Maybe he also “never HAS been gay?”
“I’ve never married. I guess I attribute that to timing, too,” writes the 59-year-old South Carolina senator. “The opportunity never presented itself at the right time, or I never found time to meet the right girl, or the right girl was smart enough not to have time for me.”
That doesn’t mean he didn’t come close.
He had a girlfriend, Debbie, in law school, and two more during his time in the Air Force in Germany: a JAG officer named Carol who went on to serve on Colin Powell’s staff, and a Lufthansa flight attendant named Sylvia, Politico reports.
His relationship with Sylvia became “serious quickly,” he writes, so serious that he considered proposing to her. He never did. She returned to Vienna to be with her family and he “was a South Carolina boy who needed to go home.”
“I haven’t been lucky that way,” he adds of finding a wife.