Katie Hill Speaks Out: Rampant Biphobia Forced Me Out of Congress
Former Rep. Katie Hill has spoken out four months after her decision to quit congress, saying that she believes the fact that she’s a bisexual woman played a huge part in “sensationalizing” the scandal that brought an abrupt and premature end to her political career.
Hill announced back in October that she would quit after the House Ethics Committee said that it would investigate her for allegedly having a sexual relationship with one of her congressional staffers—an allegation she still strongly denies. Hill has admitted to having a relationship with a campaign staffer, but that took place before she was in Congress.
While those allegations were making headlines, she also suffered the humiliation of having intimate photos of her published by The Daily Mail. Hill said at the time that the allegations against her and the scandal which was whipped up around it were being orchestrated by a “monster who is driving a smear campaign built around cyber exploitation” and that she was scared of “what might come next,” so felt she had to go.