Grey's Anatomy Character Laments Years 'Wasted' to Gay Shame

Contents:

• LIVG AUTHENTILLY THE LGBTQ COMMUNY: HOW TO MOVE PAST “GAY SHAME” [VIO]
• SELF-LOATHG AMONG GAY PEOPLE IS NOTHG NEW. WE’RE OVERWHELMED BY
• GAY SHAME
• GAY SHAME: 5 WAYS GAY MEN COMPENSATE
• THE ROOTS OF GAY SHAME
• TOM ALLEN: THE IA OF GAY SHAME STILL PERVAS
• WHAT'S THAT SOUND? GAY SHAME, ALOUD
• GREY'S ANATOMY CHARACTER LAMENTS YEARS 'WASTED' TO GAY SHAME
• 3 REASONS WHY GAY SHAME IS SO DAMAGG
• ACTIVISTS DEMAND A POLICE-FREE PRI AS SFPD RAMPS UP ITS GAY-FRIENDLY IMAGE
• THE RETURN OF GAY SHAME
• HOW TO GET OVER GAY SHAME
• GAY SHAME PILLORI LONDON BREED, GAY SF SUPERVISORS PRI MONTH INSTALLATN AT ATA
• GAY SHAME IS IN FASHN AT BJARNE MELGAARD’S “THE CASUAL PLEASURE OF DISAPPOTMENT”
• GAY SHAME PODST – EPISO 1: ABOLN IS THE FLOOR NOT THE CEILG (JULY 9, 2020)
• ‘GAY SHAME’ EDED BY DAVID M. HALPER & VALERIE TRB
• THE AFFECTIVE COMMONS: GAY SHAME, QUEER HATE, AND OTHER COLLECTIVE FEELGS
• GLENN THOMPSON SPARKS FURY OVER GAY SON'S WEDDG DAYS AFTER MARRIAGE VOTE
• AMERIN CRIME STORY: GAY SHAME AND THE REMPTN OF DAVID MADSON
• KEV SPACEY, #METOO, AND THE PROBLEM OF GAY SHAME.DARREN STEHLE·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THK QUEERLY·6 M READ·JAN 18, 2018--2SHARESOURCE“AS THOSE CLOST TO ME KNOW, MY LIFE I HAVE HAD RELATNSHIPS WH BOTH MEN AND WOMEN. I HAVE LOVED AND HAD ROMANTIC ENUNTERS WH MEN THROUGHOUT MY LIFE, AND I CHOOSE NOW TO LIVE AS A GAY MAN. I WANT TO AL WH THIS HONTLY AND OPENLY AND THAT STARTS WH EXAMG MY OWN BEHAVUR.”THE ABOVE IS KEV SPACEY’S RPONSE TO ANTHONY RAPP’S ACCATN OF UNWANTED SEXUAL ADVANC BY SPACEY WHEN HE WAS 14-YEARS OLD.THE CHALLENGG ASPECT OF THIS ARTICLE, FOR ME, IS TO CREATE AN EMPATHETIC DISCSN ABOUT THE POTENTIAL “ORIGS” OF SPACEY’S BEHAVUR.WHAT I ASK OF YOU IS TO READ THROUGH WH AN OPEN MD. I AM NOT NDONG SPACEY’S BEHAVUR WHATSOEVER.WHEN THIS NEWS FIRST BROKE I HAD HOPED WOULD BE A SGLE CINT. UNFORTUNATELY WASN’T. SPACEY CLEARLY MA UNWANTED SEXUAL ADVANC ON MEN, UNRAGE MEN, AND WOMEN; ALLEGATNS WHICH SPAN S.THE UPSET OVER HIS COMG OUT

LIVG AUTHENTILLY THE LGBTQ COMMUNY: HOW TO MOVE PAST “GAY SHAME” [VIO]

Sadly he wouldn’t be the gay people know the most homophobic school bully often pops up the lol gay bar a few years later, but there are wir exampl: Hollywood agents who bar clients om g out, historil figur such as Senator McCarthy’s anti-gay lawyer Roy Cohn, who mataed till the end that the Aids-related illns that killed him was liver ncer, the untls homophobic policians ught wh male rts. So much foc has been on changg laws and enuragg footballers to e out or on promotg sexual eedom – all important thgs – that we’ve missed the huge ground-level sufferg of those stgglg wh the legacy of society’s gay shame, right unr our may not f the narrative we wish to promote but there are huge numbers of people gettg themselv to ser suatns whout enough support.

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Love The Trouble wh Shame Gee Chncey Pleasur and Dangers of Shame Michael Warner Shamefully Gay: Documents om the Labadie Collectn Julie Herrada and Tim RetzloffCommuni of Shame How Might We Create a Collectivy That We Would Want to Belong To? Adam Sndalo Acts: The Polics of Shame among Brazilian Travti Prostut Don Kulick and Charl Kle “Plunge Into Your Shame” Neil Bartlett Gay Shame and the Polics of Inty Jennifer Moon A Ltle Huy Gayle Rub Enactivism: The Movie Dennis Allen, Jaime Hovey, and Judh RoofOn the DVD Totally Kickball, or The Philosophy of Activy-ism Emma Crandall Tough Terry Galloway Enactivism: The Movie Dennis Allen, Jaime Hovey, and Judh Roof Ne Artworks Dylan Scholski Shamelsly Gay: Documents om the Labadie Collectn Julie Herrada and Tim Retzloff Kiko: Five Color Photographs (to acpany Ellis Hanson, “Teachg Shame”) Marlene Dietrich: Four Black-and-Whe Photographs (to acpany David Caron, “Shame on Me, or The Naked Tth about Me and Marlene Dietrich”) Gay Shame Conference Poster List of Contributors Inx.

SELF-LOATHG AMONG GAY PEOPLE IS NOTHG NEW. WE’RE OVERWHELMED BY

– As much as possible: Supportg people wh direct rourc (hog, food, sh, etc) is better than fake ernment-directed london breed and fuck sfpdfuck the war on the tenrloa year later and untgstill gog strongwe keep safeRIP MARIO WOODSGay Shame is not a direct service provir, but we hope this n help our iends and neighbors survive. GAY SHAME Podst Episo 8: From Compton's to Cop Cy - London Breed's War on the Tenrlo _blank Podst;Podsts GAY SHAME Podst Episo 7: Queers of Color Agast YIMBY The Marys of Gay Shame _blank Podst;Podsts GAY SHAME Podst Episo 6: Queer Insurrectn – A Radil History of San Francis _blank Podst;Podsts GAY SHAME Podst Episo 5: No Vancy at the SIP Hotel The Marys of Gay Shame _blank Podst;Podsts GAY SHAME Podst Episo 4: A Reparatns Salon The Marys of Gay Shame _blank Podst;Podsts GAY SHAME Podst Episo 3: #FreeBrney, Free Them All The Marys of Gay Shame _blank Podst;Podsts GAY SHAME Podst Episo 2: A Brief Tour through Cooptatn Natn The Marys of Gay Shame _blank Podst;Podsts GAY SHAME Podst Episo 1: Aboln is the Floor Not the Ceilg The Marys of Gay Shame _blank Podst;Podsts No HTML5 d playback pabili for this browser. It meets rponse the ang silence of the biggt HIV service provir, which seems too sred to speak the you thk homophobia has melted away wh the troductn of civil partnerships and the like, thk for a moment what 's like to be an average 11-year-old kid who has jt realised he is gay.

If you're able to weather the bullyg and e out of your teens alive and don't get married or hi away the church, you'll most likely e out on the gay performance artist David Hoyle has scribed the gay scene as "the biggt suici cult history".

He said this a few years ago, before a recent spate of dg aths snas, so I prume he was referrg to the apparent culture of self-harm all s bars and clubs are jt that, and they buckle unr the weight of the unrealistic expectatn of dog for gay people what society ref to. An teemed list of ntributors tackl a range of issu—qutns of emotn, disreputable sexual histori, dissint genr inti, and embarrassg figur and moments gay history—as they explore the possibily of reclaimg shame as a new, even productive, way to exame lbian and gay culture.

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Image source, Aemen SkarImage ptn, Allen says edy is a place where people n explore and celebrate their quirksAt the turn of the lennium, when edian Tom Allen was a teenager, a celebry g out as gay regularly ma headle late Boyzone sger Stephen Gately was splashed across the ont page of the Sun when he revealed he was gay 1999. "Image ptn, Allen recently appeared on a Covid-safe edn of Mock The Week, alongsi Rhys Jam and Athena KugblenuOcsnally, a story volvg homosexualy still has the power to make the news headl today, but only when 's somethg really out of the ordary.

As I’ve grown to unrstand om my iends, fellow LGBTQ muny members, lleagu, and clicians, ternalized homophobia is what happens when we take the bias, prejudic, and hatred towards gay folks rerced by society (aka societal homophobia) and turn the bias ward back on ourselv. I should also acknowledge there is bate wh the psychologil and scientific muny as to the extent that this impacts gay and lbian dividuals and if we should e the term "ternalized homophobia" or stead nstct and redirect our attentn stead towards "more salient issu of cultural and stutnalized heterosexism. I also want to acknowledge that while this post is focg on ternalized homophobia, much of n also apply to ternalized transphobia, which has siar roots societal norms around what is normative society, but wh regards to genr.

564 reviews12 followersMarch 12, 2013This book is a llectn of says read at, prompted by, and/or related to the "Gay Shame" nference at the Universy of Michigan 2003 which was anized to nsir "gay shame" as an alternative to "gay pri.

GAY SHAME: 5 WAYS GAY MEN COMPENSATE

" By all acunts, the nference got pretty heated, and the selectns recreate the often aggrsively nflictg perspectiv on the notn of gay Hanson's say on shame and pedagogy has lgered my md longer than most, and though I n't say I agree wh him on everythg, I do thk his abily to make the rear unfortable, aware of her own shame, mak his say stand out as one that do, I thk, productively bridge the ncepts of shame and queerns an amic settg (the classroom) Rub's say highlightg the often overlooked tersectns between queerns, race, and abily was my favore. Gay Shame, said participant Mary Treadwell (not his real name), believ that Newsom is dividg gay muny vot orr to prevail over other mayoral hopefuls such as the more left-leang Supervisor Tom Ammiano, who is gay, and Treasurer San Leal, who is a group also nmns Newsom's "Care Not Cash" ballot measure November, AdvertisementArticle ntu below this adthe ia -- and succs -- of which helped float Newsom to rowdy mo rulted four arrts -- and some rough treatment at the hands of the police.

Wh HIV meditns extendg liv and gay characters havg bee more mon the media, there's a danger of driftg to somnolence -- of not unrstandg that 's our job to help those who e after , which means, hello, how n you refe a shelter for queer homels youth the Castro? (Especially sce Gay Lib cid wh the 1960s and 1970s Baby Boomer rejectn of shallow materialism favor of a more holistic way of life -- a nice dream, but one the Boomers eventually rejected favor of, well, materialism: Hello, SUV-drivg soccer moms! I have also received advanced specialist trag g Cognive Behavr Therapy and Compassn Foced Therapy which have been shown to be very effective and which I have found to be super helpful for many of my gay clients over the years.

THE ROOTS OF GAY SHAME

Dpe SFPD's efforts to project a gay-iendly image wh the roll-out of new rabow police uniform patch and patrol rs, activists qutn whether police have any place at Pri, given the long history of police btaly agast the queer and trans muny. Proment activists have endorsed Gay Shame's mpaign vio statements, cludg Miss Major Griff-Gracy, a Stonewall survivor and longtime advote for rcerated trans people; CeCe McDonald, a trans woman who was sentenced to a men's prison after fendg herself agast an alleged hate crime; and Blackberri, an Oakland sger-songwrer, AIDS tn activist and former San Francis Pri Grand Marshall. "Discsg Gay Shame's anti-police mpaign, Mary J and Mary Kate pot to disproportnately high rat of homelsns and poverty among the queer and trans muny, the arrts of homels people and sex workers Tenrlo dg sweeps, and tent enmpment evictns that stroy homels people's belonggs—a practice that has been cried by the Uned Natns as a human rights vlatn.

The nascent gay rights movement that emerged after Stonewall had a siar iology of rg for society's most vulnerable: In the early '70s, the pneerg anizatn Gay Liberatn Front took spiratn om the Black Panthers and subscribed to an anti-palist, anti-imperialist iology; the equally fluential Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari (STAR) fought for the rights of trans women, drag queens and genr non-nformg people who were routely crimalized for survival sex work and experienced homelsns due to hog discrimatn. "I regret the fact that the movement has gone mastream and has lost the radil edge had the days immediately followg the Stonewall rts, " says longtime activist and historian Mart Duberman, who recently thored the book Has the Gay Movement Failed? MORE: Jam Baldw's 'Take this Hammer' film, on racist gentrifitn San Francis, 1974 - Unhoed Folks Derve All The Vant Condos and More - 'YIMBYs: The Alt-Right Darlgs of the Real Estate Indtry, ' Tthout - 'The Racial Contours of YIMBY/NIMBY Bay Area Gentrifitn, ' Berkeley Planng Journal - 'YIMBYs Exposed: The Techi Hawkg Free Market “Solutns” to the Natn’s Hog Crisis, ' In The Tim - 'Extrastatecraft: The Power of Inastcture Space' - Vio pictg YIMBYs beg YIMBYs by the Anti-Evictn Mappg Project - Facebook vio: (archived at) 'Take This Hammer, ' LA Tenants Unn on their actn agast the Hammer Mm holdg a pro-YIMBY event - @shooktwks nstcts the YIMBY myth that buildg more luxury ndos will solve San Francis's affordable hog crisis - This jter - --- More on nservatorship -> Gay Shame Podst Episo 3: 'FreeBrney, Free Them All' - Rerd May 3, 2021.

TOM ALLEN: THE IA OF GAY SHAME STILL PERVAS

Sure, Yiannopoulos did a relig fashn – he was recently rced to sellg Virg Mary figur on a Christian YouTube channel – while Bergdorf has done wh impecble rrect-speak, gabbg about embracg ‘sexual fluidy’ over the bary ia that there is ‘[nothg] else other than straight or gay’. ) And yet one nnot jt let sli the fact that, here, we have a memoir by a man who wr at length about his ‘ternalised shame’ over his homosexualy, his abily to unrstand how ‘anyone uld be proud to be gay’, who then disvers that, mercifully, there is somethg beyond gay – transwomanhood; the reorrg of the body so that might better acrd wh one’s ner feelgs. Growg Up Gay and Internalized ShameDpe signifint chang attus and regulatns around LGBTQ rights recent s, most LGBTQ persons were raised wh cultural beliefs that dite cisgenr and heterosexualy as normal, stigmatizg, and discrimatg agast the LGBTQ you been disuraged om playg wh "oppose genr" toys, qutned whether you had girliends, and told you should not wear pk?

It’s Pri Month, so should not be surprisg that we’re hearg aga om the lol chapter of Gay Shame, the radil queer activist llective whose whole purpose is to be the anthis of Pri ftivi that are creasgly rporate, palized, and homogeno. While Gay Shame started New York Cy the late 1990s, the Gay Shame movement soon got self a San Francis chapter, which gaed promence ten or so years back for their vrlic anti-tech, anti-gentrifitn flyers and “Queers Hate Techi” stencil mpaign.

WHAT'S THAT SOUND? GAY SHAME, ALOUD

That was seen the wdows of the Valencia Street’s Artists’ Televisn Accs (ATA), and a Monday social media post tipped off that the Gay Shame gang was up to their old tricks wh a new stallatn the same via InstagramGay Shame’s Instagram acunt do seem to take cred for the act, and the stallatn has apparently been there for weeks. ” There were not paper artist’s statements as there were for the fnnch stallatn, though the words “Gay Shame” and “Queers Hate Cops”do appear stencil work at the bottom of the Joe Kura, SFistLet’s unpack what we see gog on here. A rdboard cutout of Mayor Breed is cuttg a rabow ribbon, while next to her, a cutout of openly gay SF Supervisor Rafael Manlman dons a police hat and holds an SFPD Joe Kura, SFistA cutout of gay District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey holds a “Party N Police” sign, a likely reference to his time as a police partment public relatns guy.

GREY'S ANATOMY CHARACTER LAMENTS YEARS 'WASTED' TO GAY SHAME

Or, for that matter, a sign that reads “Never Tst A Gay Man” and “Every Gay Man Is A Disappotment, ” which echo a self-loathg but (at least I read) tongue--cheek sentiment aired by Milo Yiannopoulos on Real Time Wh Bill Maher (“You n’t tst them to show up to work on time. “Liberatn, legimacy, digny, acceptance, and assiatn, as well as the right to be different: The goals of gay pri require nothg ls than the plete stigmatizatn of homosexualy, which means the elimatn of both the personal and social shame attached to same-sex eroticism, ” wre Trb and Halper their troductn(3). Granted, gay shame has had s host of crics, namely Jack Halberstam who wr their say “Shame and Whe Gay Masculy”: “The ia of gay shame felt anachronistic, even though I knew about the activist groups who anized unr this bric to crique the nsumerism of gay pri ftivals.

The more I thought about the nference and s theme, the more I beme nvced that gay shame, if ed an uncril way, was for, by, and about the whe gay men who had rejected femism and a queer of lor crique and for whom, therefore, shame was still an active bric of intifitn” (219).

3 REASONS WHY GAY SHAME IS SO DAMAGG

In their say “Queer Texts, Bad Habs and the Issue of a Future, ” Tera Lrentis quot Tim Dean who suggted that: “‘difficult art’ may be ‘queerer’ than popular art forms that is ‘more ristant to [the] normalizg imperativ’ of easily telligible and nsumable texts such as those of the ‘lbian- and gay-iendly popular culture’. Explag the e of this movement’s logo, Melgaard observed W Magaze, “I really miss lookg at or feelg aggrsn om gay men about their own suatns and life suatns that are so poor…And now they’re gog to get even poorer, bee of the polil climate here.

ACTIVISTS DEMAND A POLICE-FREE PRI AS SFPD RAMPS UP ITS GAY-FRIENDLY IMAGE

Oppos what they ll the "non-prof dtrial plex" of LGBT groups, for havg an "thorarian and ageist stcture that giv power to olr, largely male LGBT people" while explog and claimg to speak for youth, [3] reerism and profsnalism, [4] and promotg "gentrifitn" such as gay bs districts. Halper and Valerie Trb’s anthology Gay Shame (Universy of Chigo Prs) is an important new addn to the expandg disciple of Queer Studi and will be of tert to amics, activists, and anyone cur about theoretil analysis of our muny.

In addn to the text self, Gay Shame is acpanied by a DVD, which clus short films, performanc, and ephemera om artists and muny activism that brilliantly offers visual touchston for rears as they make their way through the text.

I ph agast otherwise 'cril acclaim' to note that while thirty pag of the book provi important rourc for soberg up and 'fdg your balance', this sort of self-help book for gay men has been elsewhere provid - and wh greater is some mer Todd's ll for creasg accs to mental and emotnal healthre support; better tn about sexual health, STIs and HIV and gay relatnships; and the larger visn to create muny by way of an LGBT centre the heart of Soho where alhol and dgs are not the ostensible enemy that perpetuate our ternalised homophobia and shame. While Todd's crique is eful for a whe, middle-class dience, his fluence giv a cursory glance at the most prsg issu of our ntemporary queer muny: homels youth, racism and xenophobia amongst gay men, the gentrifitn of urban spac, the (staed) rctn of queer imagari beyond homonormative 'happs', palism...

THE RETURN OF GAY SHAME

He is not a therapist so he quot 'The Velvet Rage' - the bt and most famo book - on the impact of childhood shame on grown gay men, rather than beg able to update (Velvet Rage was wrten over fifteen years ago) or provi a specifilly UK take.

HOW TO GET OVER GAY SHAME

Who knows how we got this suatn where everyone is gay, bee ’s not a phenomenon that seems to naturally occur beyond like 5-10% of the populatn, but as soon as we started havg kids aga, they’d more likely than not be straight, no? You are all so loveable <31, 056 reviews540 followersMay 8, 2018There seems to be a fundamental disnnect between this book’s tle, and s relentls foc on the soc-cultural nsequenc of gay culture beg perceived as celebratg “partyg as a central te of our inty.

But the ‘happy’ b, which attracted me to read this ially, is a kd of tag-on at the end, as if Matthew Todd realised he eher had to change his tle, or fob off his, Todd do apologise practilly every uple of pag for patg such a bleak and harrowg picture of the systemic discrimatn and psychologil distegratn that many gay people ntue to be subjected to. This book ma me realise many thgs, but perhaps more than anythg helped me to regnise, acknowledge and start to procs the trsic trma that om growg up book is predomantly aimed at gay men, wrten as is by a gay man drawg upon his own experienc. It also regniz that this is a watershed moment, a piercg wake-up-ll-to-arms for the gay and wir muny to acknowledge the importance of supportg all young people - and helpg olr people to transform their experience and fally get the liv they really want.

9 reviewsMay 21, 2023Don't expect to have much fun for the first 300 pag - Todd explor a myriad of issu which disproportnately affect gay men such as homophobia, abe, dg mise, alholism, HIV/AIDS, and unhealthy relatnships wh sex and other people. In fact, sort of feels like a lot of this book was tharsis for s thor, wrten primarily about his own experienc (there's nothg wrong wh that) and his own views on how to overe the immense difficulti he's faced - but 's another thg when you're then proclaimg that this is the way to overe 'Gay Shame'.

GAY SHAME PILLORI LONDON BREED, GAY SF SUPERVISORS PRI MONTH INSTALLATN AT ATA

922 reviews41 followersMay 19, 2019I know I'm not the first person to say that this book ronated wh them on a ep level, but undoubtedly will touch the liv of any gay man who reads , or anyone who knows someone who is LGBTQ and wants to unrstand more about our liv.

It also regniz that this is a watershed moment, a piercg wake-up-ll-to-arms for the gay and wir muny to acknowledge the importance of supportg all young people – and helpg olr people to transform their experience and fally get the liv they really que rmative and empowerg, right? "And for real this book is all that I need a uple of years ago, but don't matter was a experience to read and remember how I, as a gay man, al wh all the issu that the society force me to face an sential book to unrstand how we don't know the vils that someone else face and how we n help no matter if you are straight or part of the LGBT muny. There would be no ternalized self-hatred if no one had ever told you that beg gay is wrong, or that gay sex is disgtg, or that gay men n't feel real love, or that beg transgenr is fake, or that beg nonbary is a mental illns or a ll for attentn.

Speakg wh Vany Fair’s podst Still Watchg: Versace, Fern adms that this episo, and Amerin Crime Story as a whole, do reprent a ba and swch, one signed to get dienc to re about Cunanan’s ls famo victims—and, more broadly, the plight of gay men the 90s. But for Smh and Fern, Madson’s drivg ncern his fal days was clear: ternalized gay ’s te that Amerin Crime Story had to do a lot more theorizg than ual this episo; wh both Cunanan and Madson ad, there is no way to know exactly what happened on their journey.

GAY SHAME IS IN FASHN AT BJARNE MELGAARD’S “THE CASUAL PLEASURE OF DISAPPOTMENT”

It’s good that he admted what I fd extremely problematic and plited is how people have reacted to his explanatn and reason for fally g may be he chose to sp his g out as a way to flect om the larger issue of sexual abe/vlence agast may be that he thks his reprsed homosexualy is part of the reason for what he Problem May Be Rooted In The Closet Of ShameGay shame is a plited psychologil issue.

GAY SHAME PODST – EPISO 1: ABOLN IS THE FLOOR NOT THE CEILG (JULY 9, 2020)

‘GAY SHAME’ EDED BY DAVID M. HALPER & VALERIE TRB

THE AFFECTIVE COMMONS: GAY SHAME, QUEER HATE, AND OTHER COLLECTIVE FEELGS

GLENN THOMPSON SPARKS FURY OVER GAY SON'S WEDDG DAYS AFTER MARRIAGE VOTE

AMERIN CRIME STORY: GAY SHAME AND THE REMPTN OF DAVID MADSON

KEV SPACEY, #METOO, AND THE PROBLEM OF GAY SHAME.DARREN STEHLE·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THK QUEERLY·6 M READ·JAN 18, 2018--2SHARESOURCE“AS THOSE CLOST TO ME KNOW, MY LIFE I HAVE HAD RELATNSHIPS WH BOTH MEN AND WOMEN. I HAVE LOVED AND HAD ROMANTIC ENUNTERS WH MEN THROUGHOUT MY LIFE, AND I CHOOSE NOW TO LIVE AS A GAY MAN. I WANT TO AL WH THIS HONTLY AND OPENLY AND THAT STARTS WH EXAMG MY OWN BEHAVUR.”THE ABOVE IS KEV SPACEY’S RPONSE TO ANTHONY RAPP’S ACCATN OF UNWANTED SEXUAL ADVANC BY SPACEY WHEN HE WAS 14-YEARS OLD.THE CHALLENGG ASPECT OF THIS ARTICLE, FOR ME, IS TO CREATE AN EMPATHETIC DISCSN ABOUT THE POTENTIAL “ORIGS” OF SPACEY’S BEHAVUR.WHAT I ASK OF YOU IS TO READ THROUGH WH AN OPEN MD. I AM NOT NDONG SPACEY’S BEHAVUR WHATSOEVER.WHEN THIS NEWS FIRST BROKE I HAD HOPED WOULD BE A SGLE CINT. UNFORTUNATELY WASN’T. SPACEY CLEARLY MA UNWANTED SEXUAL ADVANC ON MEN, UNRAGE MEN, AND WOMEN; ALLEGATNS WHICH SPAN S.THE UPSET OVER HIS COMG OUT