AFTER ACTOR ANTHONY RAPP UNCOVERED DETAILS ABOUT HOW HE
WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED BY KEVIN SPACEY, AS WE EXPECTED, HAS
OPENED THE FLOODGATES FOR OTHER MALE ACTORS IN HOLLYWOOD TO
SHARE THEIR STORIES.
NOW INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, THE GUARDIAN IS REPORTING THAT MORE
HOLLYWOOD ACTORS ARE SPEAKING OF RAMPANT PROBLEMS OF MALE ABUSERS
TARGETING OTHER MEN IN THE INDUSTRY AND I THINK IT IS
RELEVANT WERE TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE A LOT OF THE EMPHASIS IS
TAKEN ON FEMALE VICTIMS WITH THEIR TON OF MALE VICTIMS OF AS
WELL AND AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, THERE'S USUALLY BEEN MORE STIGMA
TOWARD THEM COMING OUT AND COMING ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES
AND I WANT TO SHOW THEM SOME ADMIRATION FOR THE COURAGE
AND COMING OUT TALKING ABOUT WHAT THEY'VE EXPERIENCED.
ALEX WINTER, WHO IS AN ACTOR WHO IS BASED OUT OF LONDON TALKED
ABOUT WHAT HE ALSO EXPERIENCED AS A GAY MALE ACTOR WHO WAS
PREYED UPON BY OTHER MALES WHO HAD MORE POWER THAN HIM.
HE SAYS:
HE WAS WORRIED THAT HIS
DECISIONS NOT ACT ON IT WOULD
HURT HIS CAREER WHICH I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE TO WORRY ABOUT THE
AND THAT IS WHY A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE PRAY ON
YOUNGER PEOPLE WHETHER THEY ARE MALE OR FEMALE BECAUSE THEY
THINK THEY ARE NOT GOING TO KNOW WHAT THE STANDARD IS.
THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG AND I CAN PRETEND LIKE
IT IS NORMAL AND THEY HAVE NO POWER AND WHEN THEY HAVE NO
POWER, IT IS EASY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM AND IN THE
MOVIE INDUSTRY UNFORTUNATELY, THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
OVERALL, THE GAY PEOPLES IN THE OLD DAYS BEFORE THE INTERNET HAD
ALL OF THE POWER SO WHEN YOU HAVE THAT KIND OF POWER
DISPARITY AND YOU PUT IN HONESTLY MINUTES OF VACATION AND
FROM TIME TO TIME, WOMEN DO IT AS WELL BUT IT IS FAR MORE
PREVALENT AMONG MEN BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT IT IS A DYNAMIC FOR
A LOT OF ABUSE AND HARASSMENT AND SO IT IS NOT SURPRISING.
I TOLD YOU GUYS ABOUT THIS OF THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS
JUST BECAUSE I KEPT HEARING FROM ANYONE SPECIFIC AND THEY
NEVER NAMES ANYONE.
FOR YEARS FOLKS HAVE COME IN HERE FOR INTERVIEWS HAVE BEEN
LIKE ONE DAY IT WILL COME BACK COME OUT HOW MUCH IT HAPPENS IN
GAY HOLLYWOOD.
YOU HAVE TO ALSO REMEMBER THEIR VICTIMS STRAIGHT OR GAY WHO
HAVE BEEN HARASSED BY POWERFUL MEN.
I DON'T THINK ANYONE'S SEXUAL ORIENTATION IS ANY
INDICATION AS TO WHETHER THEY ARE TO BE A SEXUAL PREDATOR.
LET'S GET OUT OF THE WAY.
THAT IS OF PARTICULAR NOTION HOWEVER, I THINK OFTEN TIMES
PEOPLE WHO ARE IN POSITIONS OF POWER WILL ABUSE IT IF THEY
THINK THAT IT IS OKAY TO PREY ON THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE POWER.
AGAIN, SEXUAL ORIENTATION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN IS OBVIOUSLY NOT GAY.
NEITHER IS BILL O'REILLY, ROGER AILES, BILL COSBY.
THAT IS EXACTLY OUR POINT WHICH IS THAT BEING GAY DOESN'T
MAGICALLY MAKE YOU NOT PART OF THE HUMAN INTERACTION AND
FAMILY.
OF COURSE THEY HAVE THE SAME REACTIONS, POWER CORRUPTS,
ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY DOTTED THINK
THEY ARE EITHER BETTER OR WORSE IS PREPOSTEROUS AND
UNFORTUNATELY, WE ARE SEEING SOME OF THE DAMAGE THAT WAS
DONE IN THIS SITUATION AS WELL.
AND IT IS TIME FOR THOSE MEN TO SPEAK UP AND
FIGHT BACK SO IT DOESN'T HAPPEN TO THE NEXT GENERATION.