{"id":3462,"date":"2017-12-24T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T06:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2017-12-24T22:17:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T06:17:09","slug":"coming-out-of-more-than-make-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/12\/24\/coming-out-of-more-than-make-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Out Of More Than Make-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in June, Kevin Spacey was hosting the&nbsp;<em>Tony Awards<\/em>. &nbsp;He even donned drag as Norma Desmond in&nbsp;<strong><em>Sunset Boulevard<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;and sang, &#8220;I&#8217;m coming out&#8230;no, wait&#8230;I&#8217;m going into makeup&#8221;.&nbsp; Little did he know, no amount of makeup could cover what was ahead.&nbsp; A few months later,&nbsp;<strong>Anthony Rapp&nbsp;<\/strong>went public with a story he told me in 1991 &#8211; that Kevin Spacey had attempted a sexual situation with him when he was 14!&nbsp; Rapp tried to tell his story on the record several times over the years &#8211; including during an interview with&nbsp;<em>The Advocate<\/em>.&nbsp; Each time, he was stifled.&nbsp; But now, with his casting on&nbsp;<strong><em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em><\/strong>, Anthony not only spoke out, but was heard &#8211; the power of one voice.&nbsp; Within weeks, Spacey was dumped from&nbsp;<strong><em>House of Cards<\/em><\/strong>, his&nbsp;<strong>Gore Vidal&nbsp;<\/strong>biopic was shelved, and the producers of&nbsp;<strong><em>All the Money in the World<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;hired&nbsp;<strong>Christopher Plummer&nbsp;<\/strong>to replace him within days of the film&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in June, Kevin Spacey was hosting the&nbsp;Tony Awards. &nbsp;He even donned drag as Norma Desmond in&nbsp;Sunset Boulevard&nbsp;and sang, &#8220;I&#8217;m coming out&#8230;no, wait&#8230;I&#8217;m going into makeup&#8221;.&nbsp; Little did he know, no amount of makeup could cover what was ahead.&nbsp; A few months later,&nbsp;Anthony Rapp&nbsp;went public with a story he told me in 1991 &#8211; that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3463,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}