Kevin Spacey is one of my favorite actors. It was the television series, Wise Guys, I first saw the man in action. It was a serious performance as a sick, wicked head of a criminal enterprise he played. I watched it many times over the decades since, and tried to see everything he has been a part of as an actor. There is something seamless in his link between the inner worlds his characterizations come from and the tenuous hold he seems to have on hard life as a physical state of being. Being himself he easily fit into the identity of a semblance of a man; probably a gay man we thought. He wasn't a personal part of my life and therefore no threat, or potential threat to my children or young relatives; so it didn't matter.
But, his homosexuality has come to the forefront after being accused by a now grown actor, Anthony Rapp, of trying to hump him when he was a 14 year old boy. Spacey, 26 at the time, escaped the ass whipping he deserved and the boy left the impression from his telling that something happened changing him. It lingered so long in the boy's life into adulthood.
Spacey's admission was troubling, yes, but his way of pointing to the connection between sexual predation over children and adult gay life will not be drawn by public figures, into conversation. Who will protect the children in the striving, the 'fight' for 'Gay rights'? So far, not in the cards. . . - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/31/17
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