Advocate NL 8/10/26

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By 2015, Taylor Snider had been a sex worker for nearly seven years and tells Quispe López that dealing with high-profile clientele was nothing new.

That’s why she thought nothing of being paid for roughly a half-hour of sex work on June 7 of that year by a man she claims to Them and The Advocate was the late South Carolina Senator — and then-Republican presidential candidate — Lindsey Graham, who had announced his candidacy six days prior.

Snider says she didn’t initially realize who the man she had seen at the Washington Hilton was until he appeared on the mounted television of a divey New York City restaurant she and her friend were eating at just a week later.

“This is just someone that I met once for 35 minutes, and that was that. They gave me a little bit of money, not nearly enough at this rate, and I’m not gaining anything by this,” she tells Quispe. “I’m just trying to point out the hypocrisies that are actively in our world right now.”

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