Hunter Biden sat for a nearly 90-minute podcast interview in which he described himself as "a little bit gay" and offered shifting percentage figures for his sexuality, the latest stop on a public-media tour that has drawn more attention to the Biden family than most Democrats would prefer.
The 56-year-old former first son appeared on The Luke Beasley Show, an episode posted to YouTube on August 16. Host Luke Beasley opened the exchange with a blunt question: "Are you gay?" Hunter Biden's answer, "Only a little bit", set the tone for an extended back-and-forth that wandered from AI-generated images to substance abuse to marital history, the New York Post reported.
When pressed for specifics, Biden offered a figure: 48.6 percent gay. He later revised it downward to roughly 47 percent, then bumped it back up to 48.5 percent before the episode ended. The running tally was played for laughs, but the exchange is drawing scrutiny for what it reveals about the former first son's appetite for public spectacle at a moment when his family's legal and financial troubles remain unresolved.
During the interview, Beasley showed Biden an AI-generated picture depicting the two men in a close embrace, with Biden's left hand resting on the podcaster's waist. Beasley asked Biden directly:
"If I'm not your type, then why did you embrace me like this? Go ahead, take a look."
Biden reacted with visible surprise. "Oh Jesus Christ, I don't know. I just, it all is coming back to me," he said, before pivoting to a familiar subject, his years of substance abuse.
"I was in a stupor at that point. I think that was pre-2019 when I got sober," Biden told Beasley, attributing the fictional image to a period he has publicly described as his lowest. Biden has said he achieved sobriety in 2019, the same year he married his current wife, Melissa Cohen, just six days after they met.
That whirlwind courtship came two years after Biden's divorce from Kathleen Buhle in 2017. The two share three daughters. Biden's personal life has been a subject of tabloid and political interest for years, and his willingness to revisit it on a podcast suggests the attention is not unwelcome.
Biden also volunteered his preferences, telling Beasley that "a little bit more masculine would be my type, if I was gay." Later in the episode, he returned to the running joke unprompted:
"I just wanted to let you know that I am back up to 48.5 percent gay."
At another point, he quipped that his "gaydom went down a percentage point" after one particular exchange with the host.
The Beasley appearance is not an isolated event. Hunter Biden has been making the rounds on podcasts and in media appearances with increasing frequency. In one recent episode, he unloaded on CNN's Jake Tapper in a profanity-filled tirade that made national news.
That appearance was part of a broader pattern. The Biden family has resurfaced in public life through a combination of memoir releases, podcast interviews, and legal action, a media blitz that has reopened wounds many in the Democratic Party wanted to leave closed.
The nearly 90-minute Beasley episode covered ground beyond the sexuality exchange, though the New York Post's coverage focused on the most headline-grabbing moments. What other topics Biden addressed during the full interview remains unclear from available reporting.
Meanwhile, Biden's financial situation has become its own story. He recently swore under oath that his family is broke as a former law firm pursued a $17 million claim against him, a sworn statement that sits uneasily alongside a lifestyle that includes regular podcast appearances and public commentary.
And the family's difficulties extend beyond finances. Hunter Biden has spoken publicly about his father's declining health, saying that Joe Biden's cancer has spread to his bones and describing the condition as painful and debilitating.
No statement from Biden's representatives or from Melissa Cohen regarding the podcast appearance has surfaced. The origin of the AI-generated image Beasley used during the interview is also unclear, who created it, and why, remains unexplained.
What is clear is that Hunter Biden, a man who once asked the public for privacy during his legal battles and addiction struggles, has chosen a very different path. He is granting long-form interviews, making provocative statements, and generating tabloid coverage at a pace that suggests a deliberate strategy, or, at minimum, a comfort level with controversy that few political families would tolerate.
For a family that spent years insisting Hunter's troubles were private matters exploited by political enemies, the current media tour tells a different story. The former first son is not hiding. He is performing, and daring anyone to look away.
When a man who swore under oath that he is broke spends his free time calculating his "gaydom" percentage on a YouTube podcast, the question is no longer whether the Biden family has moved on from public life. They haven't. The question is whether anyone in their party has the nerve to tell them to stop.
