Hunter Biden has publicly discussed his sexuality, joking that he’s “48.5 percent gay.”
“Only a little bit,” the youngest son of former President Joe Biden told political reporter Luke Beasley during the August 17 episode of the “Luke Beasley Show” podcast. Hunter, 56, had offered the response when asked by the openly gay host, “Are you gay?” (Joe, 83, was also father to Beau Biden who died in 2015 at the age of 46 from brain cancer.)
Beasley pushed Hunter further with, “More or less than 50 percent?” to which the businessman, author and artist replied, “48.5 percent.”
Hunter then returned to the topic after the pair began to move on. “I want to get back to the gay question. Maybe I’ll take my 48.5 … to 48.7,” he said before changing his mind later. “I just wanted to let you know I’m back … to 48.5 percent gay.”
The comical bit continued with Beasley asking Hunter, “If you were gay, would I be your type?” to which he responded, “No, a little bit more masculine would be my type, if I was gay.”
Hunter married Melissa Cohen in 2019, two years after divorcing his first wife, Kathleen Buhle. He shares three daughters with Buhle and a son, born in March 2020, with Cohen. In Buhle’s 2022 memoir, “If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction and Healing,” she wrote about her former husband’s addictions and multiple infidelities amid other mental health struggles that impacted their family.
In June, Hunter took to X to mark seven years of sobriety. “7 years sober today,” he wrote via the platform on June 1. “Thank you to everyone who has walked this road with me.”
Hunter’s podcast appearance comes after he recently claimed multiple times that American politics is filled with closeted sexuality. “Everybody knows there is this closeted gay mafia, largely Republican, that exists in Washington, D.C.,” Biden said during a July 18 appearance on the “I’ve Had It” podcast.
He continued, “Their whole lives, they’ve been closeted and so you have this … blackened heart by the fact that you can’t be who you want to be, so you take it out on everybody else.”
Four days later, the July 22 episode of “The Don Lemon Show” podcast saw him discussing his theory again. “I know this to be true. There is a contingency of … gay Republican men who are closeted and have an enormous amount of self-hate, I believe,” Hunter claimed. “And we all know who they are. In [Washington] D.C.. We all know who they are.”
