Untimely camming out

Kevin Spacey admitted that he was gay-after the prosecution of the pestering against the 14-year-old. He is criticized that he mixes homosexuality and pedophilia

On October 30, actor Anthony RAPP accused Kevina Spacey of sexual harassment of sexual harassment. According to Rapp, this happened in 1986 at a party at the Spacey House; RAPPU was then 14 years old, and Spacey - 26. Kevin Spacey in response admitted that he did not remember about this case, and wrote that he had come in complete horror from this story and asked rapping forgiveness. He also said that for many years he hid his bisexual orientation, and recently lives as a homosexual. Despite the significance of the Spacey camming out, many called his act untimely and reproached the actor in an attempt to divert attention from the accusation of the harassment of the minor. "Medusa" says what is known about this story.

Party with adults

After a series of publications on the harassment of producer Harvey Weinstein in the media and social networks, they are actively discussing sexism and harassment in various industries - but primarily in Hollywood. On October 30, actor Anthony RAPP told Buzzfeed about how 30 years ago the actor, director and producer Kevin Spacey molested him 30 years ago. Rappup was then 14 years old, he played a young actor in the Broadway production “Precious Sons” with Ed Harris and Judith Ivy; Spacey was 12 years older than him and was also a novice actor. They met at one of the social events, Spacey first invited Rapp to the night club (where adult actors went a large company), and a few days later - at a party at home.

Anthony RApp recalled that in his young years he was quite independent, he himself went to the theater on the subway and often ended up at events in the company of the elders-according to him, for an actor-child it was familiar. He said that at a party in the house of Spacey, all the guests were older than him, so he quickly became bored, he went into one of the bedrooms and did not notice how everyone left. Spacey, apparently drunk, went into the room, raised rappa in his arms, transferred to the bed, lay down on him and began to take “first steps to sex”. The actor recalls that he could neither escape nor resist: "I was just stiff." He says that he managed to get out of the man and hide in the bathroom, and then leave-before that Spacey specified him if he wanted to go home. According to Rapp, this story has haunted it for many years. “The older I get, the more I understand that I was very lucky: nothing more terrible happened,” Rapp said in an interview with Buzzfeed. - At the same time, the older I am, the less it is in my head. I can’t imagine that any of my friends did this with a 14-year-old boy. ”

RAPP also said that he crossed several times with Kevin Spacey at events and always felt discomfort; He also could not understand if Spacey himself remembers what had happened. Both eventually became famous and in demand by actors. Anthony RAPP is known for the role in the Broadway production "Bohemia" and its film adaptation; Now he plays in the series “Star Way: Discovery”, which started in September 2017 on the CBS channel. Despite the fact that he is often called open gay, in an interview with 1997, RAPP specified that he identifies himself not as gay, but as Quir , because he does not consider it necessary to stick labels. According to him, he had a relationship with both women and men, but men are still more attracted to men.

Kevin Spacey is one of the leading Hollywood actors, the performer of the role of Frank Anderwood in the Netflix series “Cards of the House” and the owner of two “Oscars”-for the role of the second-plan in the Neonuar “Suspicious Faces” and the main male role in the drama “Bell of American”. Spacey became famous in the mid-1990s, also playing in the Seven David Fincher, "midnight in the garden of good and evil" Clint Eastwood and the Americans James Fowley. Among his other well -known films - “The Life of David Gale”, “The Limit of Risk” and “The Return of Superman”, where he played the villain of Lex Lutor. From 2003 to 2015, Kevin Spacey was the artistic director of the London theater Old Vic.

The most secretive actor of Hollywood

After the publication, BuzzFeed Kevin Spacey published an official statement on his Twitter. The actor wrote that he does not remember such a case, but very regrets, if this really happened, - and asks for forgiveness from Anthony Rapp for his "unacceptable drunken behavior." “I respect and admire them as an actor ... And I am very sorry that he had to carry these experiences for many years.” The actor added that this story became an incentive for him to openly recognize his sexual orientation. He said that he had a relationship with both women and men. “I loved men and was with them in romantic connections throughout my life - and it's time to stop hiding it,” Spacey wrote.

For decades, Kevin Spacey has really been considered one of the most secretive Hollywood actors. He was never married, emphasized that he did not consider it necessary to advertise his personal life, and he came to the Oscar ceremonies more than once with his mother (and even joked about this in thanks from the stage). All this gave rise to numerous rumors about his homosexuality, and from time to time publications appeared in the tabloids that they saw Spacei wigging with men. The attack on Kevin Spacey in the London Park in the middle of the night caused suspicions: the actor claimed that they tried to rob him and hit his head when he walked with a dog (the media noted that it was a popular place for acquaintance). In 1997, the October issue of Esquire magazine was released with a photograph of Spacey on the cover and with the removal "Kevin Spacey has a secret." The article of the same name spoke of rumors about the sexual orientation of the actor.

Spacey himself told Esquire that there were many gays among his friends and he never had a desire to say that he was "not like that. “If someone wants to think so, then they have every right. I am not interested in confirming or refuting it. I am simply not interested. And what? " - said the actor. The official statement of his agent said that Kevin Spacey respects those who decided to caming out, but prefers to share their professional and personal life.

His colleagues hinted at the sexual orientation of the actor. In 2005, in the animated series Gryffins there was an episode where Naked Steui Gryffin ran out of help from Kevin Spacey cellar (creator of the show Seth McFarlen in 2013 hinted at Harvey Weinstein’s harassment). In 2014, the TV presenter and open gay Andy Cohen in his autobiography wrote that he was fiercely hypocrisy of Spacey, and urged the actor to make a camming out. In June 2017, during the Tony Awards ceremony, Spacey himself (he was a leading ceremony) twice joked about the refusal to make a camming out, probably hinting at himself.

Celebrities of celebrities about their homosexual or bisexual orientation are welcome to LGBT community and activists, since they contribute to the normalization of the perception of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people, and also give a feeling of support for other LGBT people. At the same time, auto (that is, a story about someone’s sexual orientation without permission or person’s knowledge) and the requirements of “telling the truth” remain an acute discussion issue. So, the journalist of the LGBT publication of Queerty Graham Grimin asked : should Kevin Spacey set a positive example and publicly talk about his sexual orientation-or is he still entitled to the secret of personal life?

The media effect of the camming out of public people, as a rule, is so great that Spacei suspected in an attempt to divert the public attention from accusations of harassment of a minor. The British TV presenter, the open lesbian of Sue Perkins wrote on Twitter that with her act the actor "depreciated the nightmare of the prosecution and threw back the achievements of the LGBT community." The American comedian, television producer and performer of one of the roles in the series “Parks and Recreation areas” Billy Aikner wrote that Spacey invented “untimely camming out”.

Many LGBT representatives criticized the actor because his tweet unites the inconsistent inconsistent (which is a type of norm) and pedophilia (that is, a disorder of sexual preference) - and this supports the stereotype that homosexuals “corrupt children”. “I just want to hell with the fact that being gay does not mean to pester minors,” wrote a stand-up comedian and an open lesbian Cameron Esposito.

Space himself has not yet commented on criticism of him.

Olga Strachovskaya