Anthony Rapp: Kevin Spacey Made A Sexual Advance Toward Me When I Was 14 — Page 3

My friend just told me her guy friend was groped multiple times by Kevin Spacey when he was an extra on HoC. Boy, bye.

Spacey is a POS. "Never mind I nearly raped a 14 year old and there are stories about me doing the same thing to others, I'm gay!" I mean, wow. Evil & manipulative and way to make this about him. Ugh.

You're misinterpreting. He says he's had relationships with both men and women, so he's bisexual, but he now has relationships only with men. The wording is poor, but he's not saying his sexuality is a choice, just the way he is enacting it.

I don't believe I am misinterpreting, as that is exactly what his words are saying.

If he means what you're saying, then yes I agree his wording is poor. In that case, he isn't choosing to be gay. He's choosing to only pursue relations with other men (and then by men he means males, since age apparently doesn't matter).

Is anyone here really surprised that Dave is on the wrong side of this?

Some of the responses to this thread perfectly exemplify why people don't speak up.

Spacey was wrong both on impulse and behavior, but being 26 in many ways was very immature himself.

None of this, please. Stop infantilizing grown men who should know better. He was the adult in this situation -- it's ALL on him. And your ridiculous suppositions are truly revolting in general.

Updated On: 10/30/17 at 11:30 AM

Holy hell that is one of the worst things I have ever seen posted on BWW.

fb1123 said: "the disturbing thing about this, is that this is not the sexual orientation involved,it is pedophilia. How many others were there? Is Kevin deflecting by now admitting he's gay, so we don't notice the minor involved?"

Pedophilia is a primary or exclusive attraction to prepubescent children. A drunken advance on an adolescent boy is not pedophilia.

I'm so proud of Anthony for being brave enough to share his story. Hopefully the members of the Broadway community will take a hard look at themselves in the mirror and stop excusing sexual assault/pedophilia/rape because people are talented. If the Academy can expel Weinstein, hopefully men like Kevin Spacey can be expelled from Equity.

I have nothing but contempt for the pedophile apologists on this board. Admins, can you do something>

The only thing I can't sort out is how Spacey could apologize to Rapp while being closeted? If you apologize, you acknowledge that hitting on a boy was something that could have potentially happened, otherwise it makes no sense. So, apologizing requires coming out or else the media will raise that question, and the focus is still not on Anthony's story. But if he does come out, then he is deflecting. And if he doesn't apologize, he's just a creep. I just can't figure out the way he could have done this that didn't raise questions, just different ones depending on his choice.

Which isn't to say I'm justifying being closeted or his behavior, as I'm firmly in support of Rapp here, but it does seem a bit easy to just question his coming out as a deflection, since anything he said or not would have created a different strange trajectory.

Just another example of the closet being a bad choice for anyone.

Updated On: 10/30/17 at 12:40 PM

I guess the moral of the story is don't be a creep while also trying to be coy about your sexuality.

Spacey says he doesn't remember.
That may be true.

If it is, I have no problem with his wording of the first paragraph. Deeply inappropriate drunk behavior and sexual assault of a minor are not mutually exclusive. Both can well be true (with the first not at all being an excuse for the second!). So I don't doubt that Spacey might well be sincere.

However, to pivot from Rapp's complaint to a public statement about his own sexuality is a really ****ty thing for Spacey to have done.

It was despicable when Jim McGreevey used his proud announcement of "I am a gay American" to divert from and mask the implications in the Golan Cipel appointment scandal. It is far more infuriating that Spacey considered Rapp's statement that Spacey sexually assaulting him when he was only 14 as an appropriate occasion for Spacey to finally announce that he's gay.

The apparent conflation of attempted rape and or sexual assault or abuse - let alone of a minor (whether or not it's pedophilia in either the legal or any other semantic sense) - and gay identity is revolting.

Of course the horror of the spin is nothing compared to the horror of the act itself (or, if anyone prefers, the alleged act) - whether or not Spacey remembers it, and whether or not Spacey was drunk.

Updated On: 10/30/17 at 12:53 PM