Cuomo Tells Cuomosexuals, 'I Am Eligible'
NEW YORK CITY — Great news, Cuomosexuals: your governor is thirsty.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took to the airwaves Thursday to talk about his love life — or lack of — and his high ranking on a "most wanted list" of eligible bachelors among New York City women.
“I am eligible,” Cuomo, 62, said on 1010WINS. "Sounds good to me."
Cuomo's popularity amid the novel coronavirus pandemic has gone so far as to spur a new idenity: the Cuomosexual.
Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres counts herself among them, she told the governor during a television interview earlier this week.
"You know that's going around," asked DeGeneres. "That people are saying they're Cuomosexuals?"
Replied Cuomo, "I think that's a good thing."
Yet the portmanteau is eerily reminiscent of political scandal his father, former New York governor Mario Cuomo, faced when he ran against Mayor Ed Koch in the 1970s.
Posters plastered across New York City read during the 1977 election read, "Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo."
According to The Guardian, the author of those posters has long rumored to be the former governor's son, and campaign staffer, Andrew.
This article originally appeared on the New York City Patch
