Hunter Biden Comes Out as 48.5% Gay

This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Coming out is usually more personal than mathematical. Hunter Biden made it both.The former first son declared himself 48.5 percent gay during a recent interview with gay progressive political commentator Luke Beasley — although the figure changed several times as Biden flirted, sparred, and joked his way through the conversation.“Let’s get serious. I am gay,” Beasley told him near the beginning of the 80-minute interview. “Really? Wow. Seriously. I’m so amazed you’re gay,” Biden responded, feigning astonishment.When Beasley asked whether Biden was gay, too, he answered, “Only a little bit.”“More or less than 50 percent?” Beasley pressed.Related: Hunter Biden found the perfect way to break MAGA’s brains online“48.6,” Biden said.Biden soon told Beasley that, if he were gay, he would prefer someone “a little bit more masculine.” After further teasing, Biden announced that his “gaydom” had fallen to 47 percent. By the end, however, Beasley had apparently won some of it back.“I just want to let you know that I am back up to 48.5 percent gay,” Biden said before leaving.Beasley later distilled the gag into a short video titled “Tracking Hunter Biden’s gayness throughout our interview.”The teasing followed Biden’s more pointed recent venture into queer politics. During a July appearance on the “I’ve Had It” podcast, he argued that Washington was controlled in part by a Republican “closetocracy” — closeted politicians who turn their internal conflict into anti-LGBTQ+ vitriol. “Everybody knows there is this closeted gay mafia, largely Republican, that exists in Washington, D.C.,” Biden said, as The Advocate previously reported. He argued that the politicians’ sexualities were relevant because their alleged hypocrisy affected how they wielded power.Biden has spent much of the past decade losing control of his own identity. Republicans turned his addiction, intima