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Why is it hard to believe? This is a very well documented thing about Republicans.
They've been getting busted in truckstop bathrooms for decades.
Just because the story makes for such a hit of schadenfreude and self-righteousness for the left-of-what-the-U.S.-calls-"center" mind especially right now. (The Republicans have a history of being very anti-gay and librals (and everyone else, really) love to point out hypocracy like that.) And it's very easy to imagine that kind of story could take off in the not-fans-of-Republicans wing of social media even if there was no truth to it.
And also, there's nothing in the OP that makes it seem like anyone remotely reputable has seriously tried to verify it yet.
I'm not saying it's implausible. (Nor, clearly, do I think it's implausible it's just made up out of whole cloth.) Just that it's the kind of story that is likely to be swallowed hook-line-and-sinker by folks like me without consideration of whether it's actually true or not.
Enterly reasonable but assuming it's true matters little anyway. It's confirmation bias for those who want nothing to do with the GOP and the GOP won't believe it anyway, no matter the evidence (like climate change etc).
If it's is false it won't matter, if its true it won't matter.