Kev Spacey Cri, Says He Regrets How He Came Out As Gay

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• “I WAS TERRIFIED, AND I WAS HUIATED”: #METOO’S MALE ACCERS, ONE YEAR LATERTERRY CREWS, MICHAEL GASTON, AND ALEX WTER ON SHARG THEIR EXPERIENC WH SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSLT—AND THE UNIQUE CHALLENG OF NAVIGATG THE MOVEMENT AS A MALE SURVIVOR.BY LRA BRADLEYOCTOBER 4, 2018SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEBY TAYLOR JEWELL/INVISN/AP.ON OCTOBER 10, 2017, TERRY CREWS DID SOMETHG NO ONE KNEW HE WAS GOG TO DO, NOT EVEN HIS WIFE: HE OPENED UP ABOUT ALLEGEDLY BEG GROPED BY A POWERFUL HOLLYWOOD EXEC. THE ACTOR HAD BEEN READG WOMEN’S STORI ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENC WH SEXUAL ABE HOLLYWOOD—WHICH BEGAN SPILLG OUT AFTER THE NEW YORK TIM’S FIRST REPORT ABOUT HARVEY WESTE—AND FOUND HIMSELF CENSED BY THE WAY MEN WERE RPONDG TO THEIR TAL WH SKEPTICISM, SUGGTG, AMONG OTHER THGS, THAT THE WOMEN G FORWARD WERE SPEAKG UP JT BEE THEY WANTED TO BE FAMO.“I LERALLY WAS LIKE, ‘THAT’S NOT WHAT THIS IS ABOUT AT ALL! THIS IS NOT HOW WORKS!’” HE RELLED AN TERVIEW. AND SO, HE TWEETED: “THIS WHOLE THG WH HARVEY WESTE IS GIVG ME PTSD. WHY? BEE THIS KD OF THG HAPPENED TO ME.”CREWS REUNTED A HOLLYWOOD PARTY WHERE AN UNNAMED, POWERFUL AGENCY EXECUTIVE—LATER REVEALED TO BE WILLIAM MORRIS ENAVOR’S ADAM VEN—GROPED HIM, LGHG WHEN HE PROTTED. ALTHOUGH CREWS STANTLY DREW GRATU AND SUPPORT, HE ALSO FOUND HIMSELF ON THE RECEIVG END OF SKEPTICISM—PARTICULARLY OM OTHER MEN, WHO SAID A GUY LIKE HIM ULDN’T BE SEXUALLY ABED, DUE TO HIS SIZE AND PHYSIQUE. (AS ONE EDIAN PUT , “GOD GAVE YOU MCL, SO YOU N SAY NO.”)“THE WAY I LIKE TO SCRIBE THIS WHOLE ISSUE IS: YOU ARE NOW BEHD ENEMY L ONCE YOU E FORWARD,” THE BROOKLYN NE-NE STAR SAID. “INSTEAD OF A PERSON WHO NEEDS HELP, YOU ARE A PROBLEM THAT NEEDS TO BE ERADITED. THAT’S IMMEDIATE . . . BEE THERE’S A WHOLE SYSTEM PLACE, AND YOU’RE ABOUT TO UPSET THE WHOLE THG.”THOUGH THE SORDID TAL OF HOLLYWOOD SEXUAL ABE THAT HAVE PROLIFERATED THE #METOO ERA VER A WI RANGE OF EXPERIENC, MOST OF THEM HAVE ONE THG MON: THEY’RE TOLD BY WOMEN. THE MEN WHO HAVE E FORWARD—CLUDG CREWS, ANTHONY RAPP, JAM VAN DER BEEK, BRENDAN FRASER, BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE STAR ALEX WTER, THE MAN THE HIGH CASTLE’S MICHAEL GASTON, AND SEVERAL MALE MOLS WHO SPOKE OUT ABOUT THE POWERFUL PHOTOGRAPHERS BCE WEBER AND MAR TTO—HAVE FACED A UNIQUE SET OF CHALLENG, OM NAYSAYERS WHO BELIEVE MEN GROPG OTHER MEN IS JT HORSEPLAY TO A HEIGHTENED STIGMA THAT MAK MALE ACCERS LS LIKELY THAN FEMALE ON TO INTIFY THEMSELV AS SURVIVORS—AND MAK MORE DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO PROCS EMOTNS BORN OF TRMA.ONE YEAR AFTER THE MOVEMENT WENT VIRAL, THOUGH, MALE SURVIVORS ARE BEGNG TO FEEL A SENSE OF MUNY, PROTECTN, AND ACCEPTANCE—PERHAPS BT EXEMPLIFIED BY CREWS’S EXPERIENCE. AFTER LEARNG LAST NOVEMBER THAT VEN WOULD RETURN TO WORK AFTER ROUGHLY A MONTH’S SPENSN, CREWS BROUGHT A CIVIL SE AGAST VEN AND WME, WHICH THE PARTI SETTLED LAST MONTH. THE SE WAS DISMISSED ON THE NDN THAT VEN RIGN, WHOUT THE POSSIBILY OF RETURNG TO THE PANY ANY PACY, AND THAT WME ALTERS S EMPLOYEE-NDUCT POLICY TO AQUATELY ADDRS SEXUAL ASSLT AND BATTERY BY WME EMPLOYE AGAST CLIENTS. (AN OUTSI ATTORNEY WILL BE RPONSIBLE FOR APPROVG THE POLICY, AS WELL AS S IMPLEMENTATN.) EMPLOYE WILL ALSO BE REQUIRED TO RECEIVE TRAG REGARDG THOSE POLICI ANNUALLY.“I TOLD EVERYONE, AND I NTUE TO SAY ,” CREWS SAID. “I WAS READY TO SPEND A LN DOLLARS TO W ONE DOLLAR . . . THIS IS NOT ABOUT MONEY AT ALL. BUT THE FACT IS THAT I WANTED [VEN] TO BE GONE.”MOST POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNIN“THE HIGHER UP YOU ARE, THE MORE ACUNTABLE YOU ARE,” THE ACTOR ADD. “IT DON’T WORK THE OTHER WAY.”CREWS NOTED THAT MALE ACCERS N BOTH BENEF AND BE HURT BY PRE-EXISTG NOTNS ABOUT MASCULY AND SEXUAL POLICS. PEOPLE SEEMED QUICKER TO BELIEVE HIS CLAIMS AGAST VEN, HE SAID, BEE HE IS A MAN—BUT SOME SKEPTICS ALSO SHGGED OFF VEN’S ACTNS OR BLAMED CREWS FOR MISNSTG VEN’S TENTNS (A CHARGE THAT N BE LOBBED AT ANY ACCER, MALE OR FEMALE). OTHERS ASKED WHY CREWS DIDN’T SIMPLY PUNCH THE GUY—IGNORG THE NSEQUENC CREWS ULD HAVE FACED FOR THAT.FOR MANY MEN WHO HAVE FACED SEXUAL ABE, THE PROBLEM IS STILL MORE ELEMENTAL: “I DON’T REALLY RELL HEARG ABOUT MALE SURVIVORS,” SAID GASTON, WHEN ASKED IF HE BELIEV #METOO HAS SHIFTED THE NVERSATN SURROUNDG MALE ACCERS. A DAY AFTER CREWS’S TWEETS, GASTON TOLD HIS OWN STORY, TWEETG THAT JT AS CREWS WAS GROPED AT AN DTRY FUNCTN, GASTON WAS ALSO ASSLTED A PROFSNAL SETTG. GASTON WAS HIS LATE TWENTI, HE SAID, WHEN A DIRECTOR GROPED HIS GRO DURG REHEARSAL FOR A NEW PLAY. BOTH A STAGE MANAGER AND A YOUNG ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WERE PRENT FOR THE CINT, GASTON SAID. AT THE TIME, HE RPOND BY SWATTG THE DIRECTOR’S HAND AWAY AND MAKG A JOKE. “BUT I NEVER PLAED TO MANAGEMENT,” HE WROTE ON TWTER LAST OCTOBER. “I WAS TERRIFIED. AND I WAS HUIATED. I HAD VLENT FANTASI ABOUT THE MAN FOR YEARS.”IT WAS 25 YEARS BEFORE GASTON FELT READY TO SPEAK ABOUT THE CINT PUBLICLY; AT THE TIME, THE ACTOR SAID HE ONLY NFID ONE CLOSE MALE IEND. “WE WEREN'T PARTICULARLY EMOTNALLY SOPHISTITED. . . AT THE TIME, WAS JT, LIKE, PUT YOUR HEAD DOWN, GET TO WORK, GET OUT OF NEW HAVEN WHEN THIS THG IS OVER, AND GET ON WH OUR LIV, WHICH WE DID,” HE SAID. YEARS LATER, HE LEARNED THAT TWO OTHER ACTORS HE KNEW HAD BEEN HARASSED BY THE SAME DIRECTOR: “IT WAS A PERFECT THREE OUT OF THREE.”ALTHOUGH THE MEMORY OF BEG GROPED GRADUALLY RECED GASTON’S MD, HE STILL FELT DARK EMOTNS HE ULDN’T FULLY UNRSTAND OR PROCS; THE TWO OTHERS TOLD HIM ABOUT SIAR EXPERIENC. THERE THEY WERE, THREE UALLY NICE GUYS, ALL BOILG WH RAGE. “IT REALLY, REALLY AFFECTED LOTS OF DIFFERENT WAYS, I THK,” GASTON SAID. AND AS THE ACTOR TYPED OUT HIS STORY ON TWTER LAST FALL, ALL ME SHG BACK.“I MIGHT HAVE JT STOPPED AND NOT DONE , IF I’D THOUGHT ABOUT MORE—BUT THE MOMENT, MY HEART WAS POUNDG,” GASTON SAID. “IT REALLY WAS WEIRD. AT ONE TIME MY LIFE, I’VE HAD WHAT ULD BE SCRIBED AS A PANIC ATTACK, AND THIS WAS ABOUT HALF OF THAT. JT AS I WAS WRG, YOU KNOW, I REALLY FELT HOT AND SHORT OF BREATH. AND WAS 25 YEARS LATER.”BUT FOR ALL THE ANXIETY AND EMOTN THAT GO TO SPEAKG OUT, THE PROCS N BE HEALG FOR MALE AND FEMALE SURVIVORS ALIKE. IN AN TERVIEW, ALEX WTER PARED SPEAKG PUBLICLY TO THE FEELG OF SHACKL G OFF. “I NEVER THOUGHT, ‘GOD FORBID I’D EVER GO PUBLIC WH ,’ UNTIL THIS #METOO THG HAPPENED,” WTER SAID. BUOYED BY STORI TOLD BY OTHER ACTORS, HE ME FORWARD LATE OCTOBER OF 2017 WH HIS OWN TALE OF BEG SEXUALLY ABED AS A CHILD ACTOR; HE DID NOT NAME HIS PERPETRATOR, WHOM HE SAID IS NOW AD.MOST POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINALEX WTER 1987 FOR THE PREMIERE OF THE LOST BOYS. LAST YEAR HE REVEALED HE WAS SEXUALLY ABED THE 1970’S.BY RON GALELLA/WIREIMAGE.WTER SPENT YEARS SELECTIVELY SHARG PORTNS OF WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM—SOMETIM THROUGH JOK, AND SOMETIM EARNT. “IT WASN’T LIKE I WAS LYG ABOUT , BUT I WASN’T GETTG TO FULL TAIL,” WTER SAID. “SO WAS KD OF A PATCHWORK. I THK YOU SORT OF OFF-LOAD STRS A WAY FOR YOURSELF THAT MAK YOU FEEL SAFE, BUT STILL GIV YOU SOME SENSE OF GETTG SOME OF OUT THERE. THEN YOU REALIZE, AS YOU GO ON, THAT THAT’S NOT REALLY DOG VERY MUCH.”IN HIS THIRTI, WTER SAID, HE BEGAN TO SPEAK OPENLY ABOUT THE ABE THERAPY—BUT ONLY THERE. THE #METOO MOVEMENT—PARTICULARLY THE STORI TOLD BY FEMALE SURVIVORS—IS WHAT EMPOWERED HIM TO OVERE THE SENSE OF ISOLATN THAT MAK SURVIVORS FEEL AS THOUGH THEY SHOULD KEEP THEIR STORI TO THEMSELV, RATHER THAN DISPT THE LIV OF THOSE AROUND THEM, A NOTN HE LLED “BONKERS, RETROSPECT.”WHEN ASKED IF HE THOUGHT THE #METOO MOVEMENT OVERALL FELT CLIVE OF MEN, WTER WAS UNEQUIVOLLY POSIVE. “BY THE TIME I ME OUT WH MY STORY, I WAS NOT FEELG LIKE, ‘OH MY GOD, I’M JUMPG OFF A HIGH DIVE,’” WTER SAID. “I FELT LIKE I’M JT STEPPG TO A POOL THAT THERE’S A BUNCH OF PEOPLE ALREADY.” AND THE REACTNS HE RECEIVED AFTERWARD ONLY BORE THAT FEELG OUT. THE OTHER MEN AGREED, AS WELL, THAT THE MOVEMENT HAS MA THEM FEEL SUPPORTED AS THEY’VE E FORWARD. AS MORE ALLEGED VICTIMS E FORWARD AND THE MOVEMENT MATUR, SOME OF THE NVERSATN SURROUNDG HAS REQUIRED MORE NUANCE—LIKE ACTOR JIMMY BENT’S RECENT ACCATNS AGAST ASIA ARGENTO, WHO WAS HERSELF ONE OF THE FIRST WOMEN TO ACCE WESTE OF RAPE. (WESTE HAS NIED ALL ALLEGATNS OF NONNSENSUAL SEX.) BENT ALLEGED STATUTORY RAPE, WHILE ARGENTO LATER ALLEGED THAT BENT WAS THE AGGRSOR.MOST POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINWTER—WHO NOTED HE DO NOT KNOW EHER PARTY—SAID THAT THE MSY WAY THOSE ALLEGATNS HAVE UNFOLD PROV THAT VICTIMS OF ABE ARE NOT NECSARILY UNIMPEACHABLE THEMSELV. “THE THG THAT THE PUBLIC IS REALLY GOG TO HAVE A HARD TIME WH—THAT [ORIGAL #METOO FOUNR,] TARANA BURKE, I THK, WROTE ABOUT [] REALLY EARLY ON—IS THAT IF WE’RE REALLY GOG TO ACCEPT THE GREE TO WHICH THIS HAPPENS, ’S A GAME CHANGER,” WTER SAID. “PEOPLE ARE GOG TO HAVE TO UNRSTAND HOW SYSTEMIC IS . . . SO ’S GOG TO HAPPEN TO PEOPLE YOU DON’T LIKE. IT’S GOG TO HAPPEN TO PEOPLE THAT ARE DOG THEMSELV.” AND, AS THE PUBLIC WILL NTUE TO LEARN, ABE HAS AND WILL NTUE TO AFFECT BOTH MEN AND WOMEN.OVERALL, WTER THKS THE MOVEMENT REPRENTS REAL PROGRS; IF HE WERE AN ADOLCENT BEG ABED NOW, HE SAID, HE’D FEEL MORE FORTABLE SPEAKG OUT SOONER. THERE IS STILL A STIGMA AROUND SPEAKG UP ABOUT SEXUAL MISNDUCT, HE POTED OUT, AND WE HAVE YET TO GRASP JT HOW PERVASIVE SEXUAL ABE IS—PECIALLY HOLLYWOOD. STILL, HE’S ENURAGED TO SEE PEOPLE—ALL SORTS—FALLY TALKG ABOUT THE ISSU OPENLY.“I THK ’S REALLY HARD FOR PEOPLE TO UNRSTAND THAT FOR THOSE OF WHO HAVE BEEN LIVG WH THE SECRETS FOR SO LONG, ’S REALLY SHOCKG A POSIVE WAY,” SAID WTER. “IT’S JT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. SUDNLY, THE THGS THAT YOU JT ULD NOT SAY, YOU N SAY. . . I JT DON’T THK YOU N EVER TAKE THAT AWAY. I THK ’S PART OF A BROAD PUBLIC NVERSATN. HOPEFULLY, ’LL JT GET BIGGER.”LRA BRADLEY
• KEV SPACEY BREAKS DOWN TEARS DURG TTIMONY ABOUT HOW HE ME OUT AS GAY
• ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
• #METOO TO WT HOLLYWOOD AS GAY MAYOR ACCED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT: REPORT
• COLTON HAYN WAS TOLD HE WAS 'TOO GAY' WHEN HE GOT TO HOLLYWOOD — AND WAS ACHED TO HI

“I WAS TERRIFIED, AND I WAS HUIATED”: #METOO’S MALE ACCERS, ONE YEAR LATERTERRY CREWS, MICHAEL GASTON, AND ALEX WTER ON SHARG THEIR EXPERIENC WH SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSLT—AND THE UNIQUE CHALLENG OF NAVIGATG THE MOVEMENT AS A MALE SURVIVOR.BY LRA BRADLEYOCTOBER 4, 2018SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEBY TAYLOR JEWELL/INVISN/AP.ON OCTOBER 10, 2017, TERRY CREWS DID SOMETHG NO ONE KNEW HE WAS GOG TO DO, NOT EVEN HIS WIFE: HE OPENED UP ABOUT ALLEGEDLY BEG GROPED BY A POWERFUL HOLLYWOOD EXEC. THE ACTOR HAD BEEN READG WOMEN’S STORI ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENC WH SEXUAL ABE HOLLYWOOD—WHICH BEGAN SPILLG OUT AFTER THE NEW YORK TIM’S FIRST REPORT ABOUT HARVEY WESTE—AND FOUND HIMSELF CENSED BY THE WAY MEN WERE RPONDG TO THEIR TAL WH SKEPTICISM, SUGGTG, AMONG OTHER THGS, THAT THE WOMEN G FORWARD WERE SPEAKG UP JT BEE THEY WANTED TO BE FAMO.“I LERALLY WAS LIKE, ‘THAT’S NOT WHAT THIS IS ABOUT AT ALL! THIS IS NOT HOW WORKS!’” HE RELLED AN TERVIEW. AND SO, HE TWEETED: “THIS WHOLE THG WH HARVEY WESTE IS GIVG ME PTSD. WHY? BEE THIS KD OF THG HAPPENED TO ME.”CREWS REUNTED A HOLLYWOOD PARTY WHERE AN UNNAMED, POWERFUL AGENCY EXECUTIVE—LATER REVEALED TO BE WILLIAM MORRIS ENAVOR’S ADAM VEN—GROPED HIM, LGHG WHEN HE PROTTED. ALTHOUGH CREWS STANTLY DREW GRATU AND SUPPORT, HE ALSO FOUND HIMSELF ON THE RECEIVG END OF SKEPTICISM—PARTICULARLY OM OTHER MEN, WHO SAID A GUY LIKE HIM ULDN’T BE SEXUALLY ABED, DUE TO HIS SIZE AND PHYSIQUE. (AS ONE EDIAN PUT , “GOD GAVE YOU MCL, SO YOU N SAY NO.”)“THE WAY I LIKE TO SCRIBE THIS WHOLE ISSUE IS: YOU ARE NOW BEHD ENEMY L ONCE YOU E FORWARD,” THE BROOKLYN NE-NE STAR SAID. “INSTEAD OF A PERSON WHO NEEDS HELP, YOU ARE A PROBLEM THAT NEEDS TO BE ERADITED. THAT’S IMMEDIATE . . . BEE THERE’S A WHOLE SYSTEM PLACE, AND YOU’RE ABOUT TO UPSET THE WHOLE THG.”THOUGH THE SORDID TAL OF HOLLYWOOD SEXUAL ABE THAT HAVE PROLIFERATED THE #METOO ERA VER A WI RANGE OF EXPERIENC, MOST OF THEM HAVE ONE THG MON: THEY’RE TOLD BY WOMEN. THE MEN WHO HAVE E FORWARD—CLUDG CREWS, ANTHONY RAPP, JAM VAN DER BEEK, BRENDAN FRASER, BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE STAR ALEX WTER, THE MAN THE HIGH CASTLE’S MICHAEL GASTON, AND SEVERAL MALE MOLS WHO SPOKE OUT ABOUT THE POWERFUL PHOTOGRAPHERS BCE WEBER AND MAR TTO—HAVE FACED A UNIQUE SET OF CHALLENG, OM NAYSAYERS WHO BELIEVE MEN GROPG OTHER MEN IS JT HORSEPLAY TO A HEIGHTENED STIGMA THAT MAK MALE ACCERS LS LIKELY THAN FEMALE ON TO INTIFY THEMSELV AS SURVIVORS—AND MAK MORE DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO PROCS EMOTNS BORN OF TRMA.ONE YEAR AFTER THE MOVEMENT WENT VIRAL, THOUGH, MALE SURVIVORS ARE BEGNG TO FEEL A SENSE OF MUNY, PROTECTN, AND ACCEPTANCE—PERHAPS BT EXEMPLIFIED BY CREWS’S EXPERIENCE. AFTER LEARNG LAST NOVEMBER THAT VEN WOULD RETURN TO WORK AFTER ROUGHLY A MONTH’S SPENSN, CREWS BROUGHT A CIVIL SE AGAST VEN AND WME, WHICH THE PARTI SETTLED LAST MONTH. THE SE WAS DISMISSED ON THE NDN THAT VEN RIGN, WHOUT THE POSSIBILY OF RETURNG TO THE PANY ANY PACY, AND THAT WME ALTERS S EMPLOYEE-NDUCT POLICY TO AQUATELY ADDRS SEXUAL ASSLT AND BATTERY BY WME EMPLOYE AGAST CLIENTS. (AN OUTSI ATTORNEY WILL BE RPONSIBLE FOR APPROVG THE POLICY, AS WELL AS S IMPLEMENTATN.) EMPLOYE WILL ALSO BE REQUIRED TO RECEIVE TRAG REGARDG THOSE POLICI ANNUALLY.“I TOLD EVERYONE, AND I NTUE TO SAY ,” CREWS SAID. “I WAS READY TO SPEND A LN DOLLARS TO W ONE DOLLAR . . . THIS IS NOT ABOUT MONEY AT ALL. BUT THE FACT IS THAT I WANTED [VEN] TO BE GONE.”MOST POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNIN“THE HIGHER UP YOU ARE, THE MORE ACUNTABLE YOU ARE,” THE ACTOR ADD. “IT DON’T WORK THE OTHER WAY.”CREWS NOTED THAT MALE ACCERS N BOTH BENEF AND BE HURT BY PRE-EXISTG NOTNS ABOUT MASCULY AND SEXUAL POLICS. PEOPLE SEEMED QUICKER TO BELIEVE HIS CLAIMS AGAST VEN, HE SAID, BEE HE IS A MAN—BUT SOME SKEPTICS ALSO SHGGED OFF VEN’S ACTNS OR BLAMED CREWS FOR MISNSTG VEN’S TENTNS (A CHARGE THAT N BE LOBBED AT ANY ACCER, MALE OR FEMALE). OTHERS ASKED WHY CREWS DIDN’T SIMPLY PUNCH THE GUY—IGNORG THE NSEQUENC CREWS ULD HAVE FACED FOR THAT.FOR MANY MEN WHO HAVE FACED SEXUAL ABE, THE PROBLEM IS STILL MORE ELEMENTAL: “I DON’T REALLY RELL HEARG ABOUT MALE SURVIVORS,” SAID GASTON, WHEN ASKED IF HE BELIEV #METOO HAS SHIFTED THE NVERSATN SURROUNDG MALE ACCERS. A DAY AFTER CREWS’S TWEETS, GASTON TOLD HIS OWN STORY, TWEETG THAT JT AS CREWS WAS GROPED AT AN DTRY FUNCTN, GASTON WAS ALSO ASSLTED A PROFSNAL SETTG. GASTON WAS HIS LATE TWENTI, HE SAID, WHEN A DIRECTOR GROPED HIS GRO DURG REHEARSAL FOR A NEW PLAY. BOTH A STAGE MANAGER AND A YOUNG ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WERE PRENT FOR THE CINT, GASTON SAID. AT THE TIME, HE RPOND BY SWATTG THE DIRECTOR’S HAND AWAY AND MAKG A JOKE. “BUT I NEVER PLAED TO MANAGEMENT,” HE WROTE ON TWTER LAST OCTOBER. “I WAS TERRIFIED. AND I WAS HUIATED. I HAD VLENT FANTASI ABOUT THE MAN FOR YEARS.”IT WAS 25 YEARS BEFORE GASTON FELT READY TO SPEAK ABOUT THE CINT PUBLICLY; AT THE TIME, THE ACTOR SAID HE ONLY NFID ONE CLOSE MALE IEND. “WE WEREN'T PARTICULARLY EMOTNALLY SOPHISTITED. . . AT THE TIME, WAS JT, LIKE, PUT YOUR HEAD DOWN, GET TO WORK, GET OUT OF NEW HAVEN WHEN THIS THG IS OVER, AND GET ON WH OUR LIV, WHICH WE DID,” HE SAID. YEARS LATER, HE LEARNED THAT TWO OTHER ACTORS HE KNEW HAD BEEN HARASSED BY THE SAME DIRECTOR: “IT WAS A PERFECT THREE OUT OF THREE.”ALTHOUGH THE MEMORY OF BEG GROPED GRADUALLY RECED GASTON’S MD, HE STILL FELT DARK EMOTNS HE ULDN’T FULLY UNRSTAND OR PROCS; THE TWO OTHERS TOLD HIM ABOUT SIAR EXPERIENC. THERE THEY WERE, THREE UALLY NICE GUYS, ALL BOILG WH RAGE. “IT REALLY, REALLY AFFECTED LOTS OF DIFFERENT WAYS, I THK,” GASTON SAID. AND AS THE ACTOR TYPED OUT HIS STORY ON TWTER LAST FALL, ALL ME SHG BACK.“I MIGHT HAVE JT STOPPED AND NOT DONE , IF I’D THOUGHT ABOUT MORE—BUT THE MOMENT, MY HEART WAS POUNDG,” GASTON SAID. “IT REALLY WAS WEIRD. AT ONE TIME MY LIFE, I’VE HAD WHAT ULD BE SCRIBED AS A PANIC ATTACK, AND THIS WAS ABOUT HALF OF THAT. JT AS I WAS WRG, YOU KNOW, I REALLY FELT HOT AND SHORT OF BREATH. AND WAS 25 YEARS LATER.”BUT FOR ALL THE ANXIETY AND EMOTN THAT GO TO SPEAKG OUT, THE PROCS N BE HEALG FOR MALE AND FEMALE SURVIVORS ALIKE. IN AN TERVIEW, ALEX WTER PARED SPEAKG PUBLICLY TO THE FEELG OF SHACKL G OFF. “I NEVER THOUGHT, ‘GOD FORBID I’D EVER GO PUBLIC WH ,’ UNTIL THIS #METOO THG HAPPENED,” WTER SAID. BUOYED BY STORI TOLD BY OTHER ACTORS, HE ME FORWARD LATE OCTOBER OF 2017 WH HIS OWN TALE OF BEG SEXUALLY ABED AS A CHILD ACTOR; HE DID NOT NAME HIS PERPETRATOR, WHOM HE SAID IS NOW AD.MOST POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINALEX WTER 1987 FOR THE PREMIERE OF THE LOST BOYS. LAST YEAR HE REVEALED HE WAS SEXUALLY ABED THE 1970’S.BY RON GALELLA/WIREIMAGE.WTER SPENT YEARS SELECTIVELY SHARG PORTNS OF WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM—SOMETIM THROUGH JOK, AND SOMETIM EARNT. “IT WASN’T LIKE I WAS LYG ABOUT , BUT I WASN’T GETTG TO FULL TAIL,” WTER SAID. “SO WAS KD OF A PATCHWORK. I THK YOU SORT OF OFF-LOAD STRS A WAY FOR YOURSELF THAT MAK YOU FEEL SAFE, BUT STILL GIV YOU SOME SENSE OF GETTG SOME OF OUT THERE. THEN YOU REALIZE, AS YOU GO ON, THAT THAT’S NOT REALLY DOG VERY MUCH.”IN HIS THIRTI, WTER SAID, HE BEGAN TO SPEAK OPENLY ABOUT THE ABE THERAPY—BUT ONLY THERE. THE #METOO MOVEMENT—PARTICULARLY THE STORI TOLD BY FEMALE SURVIVORS—IS WHAT EMPOWERED HIM TO OVERE THE SENSE OF ISOLATN THAT MAK SURVIVORS FEEL AS THOUGH THEY SHOULD KEEP THEIR STORI TO THEMSELV, RATHER THAN DISPT THE LIV OF THOSE AROUND THEM, A NOTN HE LLED “BONKERS, RETROSPECT.”WHEN ASKED IF HE THOUGHT THE #METOO MOVEMENT OVERALL FELT CLIVE OF MEN, WTER WAS UNEQUIVOLLY POSIVE. “BY THE TIME I ME OUT WH MY STORY, I WAS NOT FEELG LIKE, ‘OH MY GOD, I’M JUMPG OFF A HIGH DIVE,’” WTER SAID. “I FELT LIKE I’M JT STEPPG TO A POOL THAT THERE’S A BUNCH OF PEOPLE ALREADY.” AND THE REACTNS HE RECEIVED AFTERWARD ONLY BORE THAT FEELG OUT. THE OTHER MEN AGREED, AS WELL, THAT THE MOVEMENT HAS MA THEM FEEL SUPPORTED AS THEY’VE E FORWARD. AS MORE ALLEGED VICTIMS E FORWARD AND THE MOVEMENT MATUR, SOME OF THE NVERSATN SURROUNDG HAS REQUIRED MORE NUANCE—LIKE ACTOR JIMMY BENT’S RECENT ACCATNS AGAST ASIA ARGENTO, WHO WAS HERSELF ONE OF THE FIRST WOMEN TO ACCE WESTE OF RAPE. (WESTE HAS NIED ALL ALLEGATNS OF NONNSENSUAL SEX.) BENT ALLEGED STATUTORY RAPE, WHILE ARGENTO LATER ALLEGED THAT BENT WAS THE AGGRSOR.MOST POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINWTER—WHO NOTED HE DO NOT KNOW EHER PARTY—SAID THAT THE MSY WAY THOSE ALLEGATNS HAVE UNFOLD PROV THAT VICTIMS OF ABE ARE NOT NECSARILY UNIMPEACHABLE THEMSELV. “THE THG THAT THE PUBLIC IS REALLY GOG TO HAVE A HARD TIME WH—THAT [ORIGAL #METOO FOUNR,] TARANA BURKE, I THK, WROTE ABOUT [] REALLY EARLY ON—IS THAT IF WE’RE REALLY GOG TO ACCEPT THE GREE TO WHICH THIS HAPPENS, ’S A GAME CHANGER,” WTER SAID. “PEOPLE ARE GOG TO HAVE TO UNRSTAND HOW SYSTEMIC IS . . . SO ’S GOG TO HAPPEN TO PEOPLE YOU DON’T LIKE. IT’S GOG TO HAPPEN TO PEOPLE THAT ARE DOG THEMSELV.” AND, AS THE PUBLIC WILL NTUE TO LEARN, ABE HAS AND WILL NTUE TO AFFECT BOTH MEN AND WOMEN.OVERALL, WTER THKS THE MOVEMENT REPRENTS REAL PROGRS; IF HE WERE AN ADOLCENT BEG ABED NOW, HE SAID, HE’D FEEL MORE FORTABLE SPEAKG OUT SOONER. THERE IS STILL A STIGMA AROUND SPEAKG UP ABOUT SEXUAL MISNDUCT, HE POTED OUT, AND WE HAVE YET TO GRASP JT HOW PERVASIVE SEXUAL ABE IS—PECIALLY HOLLYWOOD. STILL, HE’S ENURAGED TO SEE PEOPLE—ALL SORTS—FALLY TALKG ABOUT THE ISSU OPENLY.“I THK ’S REALLY HARD FOR PEOPLE TO UNRSTAND THAT FOR THOSE OF WHO HAVE BEEN LIVG WH THE SECRETS FOR SO LONG, ’S REALLY SHOCKG A POSIVE WAY,” SAID WTER. “IT’S JT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. SUDNLY, THE THGS THAT YOU JT ULD NOT SAY, YOU N SAY. . . I JT DON’T THK YOU N EVER TAKE THAT AWAY. I THK ’S PART OF A BROAD PUBLIC NVERSATN. HOPEFULLY, ’LL JT GET BIGGER.”LRA BRADLEY

Reman, who is gay, claimed that Ronell kissed and touched him whout nsent, and provid emails which Ronell scribed him as “ck-er spaniel” and “my most adored one. But then the show proceeds to prent a seri of suatns volvg Arabella and her iends that are fuzzier moral quandari—a seemgly spontaneo threome that turned out to be planned by two parti beforehand; a man removg a ndom midway through sex and gaslightg his partner about the reason for dog so; a gay man who li about his sexualy orr to sleep wh a woman.

Spacey had long been mored gay and would have done the entire muny good if he had e out and enuraged others to do the same.

Instead, he ed the sndal as his platform for announcg to the world he was gay. Thanks to the shownners drivg thentic stori, filmmakers buckg s-old heteronormative paradigms, actors embolned to live more hontly and platforms bankrollg so much of , beg gay, queer, transgenr or any other other has never been more wily embraced the entertament s gural Pri issue, The Hollywood Reporter homed on the talent and makers helpg boost visibily and creatg opportuni for members of the extend LGBTQ muny.

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His directorial work on Love, Simon marked the first major stud movie to center on a gay teen romance.

After more than a of Watch What Happens Live Wh Andy Cohen, where he beme the first openly gay host Amerin late night, Bravo's exec turned talent tackl all kds of media (SiriXM show Rad Andy, multiple books), while upliftg and advotg for the LGBTQ muny. I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN "As much reprentatn as there is, there are very few big gay love stori. He was a talented black, gay workg actor who was pavg the way for the '80s the streets Hollywood.

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And when 's jt a movie about a love story and not a gay love story. Puttg his stamp on The Ln Kg — he played Timon to great acclaim the billn-dollar-earng Disney reboot — the out-and-proud funnyman will next play Matt Ddge  Amerin Crime Story: Impeachment while his upg Judd Apatow-produced feature at Universal is set to be the first gay rom- om a major stud. I'VE FOUND COMMUNITY DURING QUARANTINE BY "Watchg gay guys dog home workouts on Instagram.

Creator of the NBC s One Big Happy and her own YouTube talk show This Jt Out, Feldman recently ma her Netflix edy outright queer, as Dead to Me's sophomore season revealed a lead character to be bisexual. I FELT MOST PROUD TO BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY LAST YEAR WHEN "An openly gay man beme a te ntenr as a printial ndidate. Broadst TV's first openly gay chief exec has ed his new post atop WarnerMedia's direct-to-nsumer bs to she a spotlight.

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Lee's sophomore film, perd lbian love story Ammone, starrg Kate Wslet and Saoirse Ronan, is due out late 2020 om Neon. Levy, who -created the show wh dad Eugene, earned legns of admirers fans and crics alike for craftg a same-sex love story a seri that was ee of homophobia. Watchg Rickie Vasquez, a gay character played by an openly gay actor, Wilson Cz, certaly felt like the most hont and rpectful portrayal of a gay teen I had ever seen.

I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN "When 'gay actor, ' 'gay director, ' 'gay wrer, ' 'gay story, ' et cetera, are no longer labels even worth mentng. It was vigoratg and a ltle ighteng — well, ighteng to this sweet, gay, Southern boy who shi away om nontatn. In addn to speakg, and sgg, publicly about his own gay relatnships, Platt plays bi on The Polician — acuntg for several of the seri' many entangled LGBTQ romanc.

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The Pose star beme the first openly gay black man to w the dramatic lead actor Emmy 2019, the year he turned heads for butg genr-ntral red rpet looks. The show will leave a legacy of thentic pictns of sexualy — cludg scen volvg gay character Lnel (DeRon Horton), moled after Simien himself. LGBTQ STORY I'D LOVE TO SEE ONSCREEN "A pictn of black gay men that is neher tragic nor ialized.