Kevin Spacey Criticized for Using Apology to Anthony Rapp to Come Out<br />“They do so because they have the power, and they chose to abuse it.”<br />Zachary Quinto, an actor, said in a statement that Mr. Spacey had come out not “as a point of pride”<br />that could inspire children but “as a calculated manipulation to deflect attention from the very serious accusation that he attempted to molest one.”<br />“I am sorry that Kevin only saw fit to acknowledge his truth when he thought it<br />would serve him — just as his denial served him for so many years,” he said.<br />On Sunday, BuzzFeed News reported that Anthony Rapp, an actor, said Mr. Spacey had made a sexual advance toward him in 1986, when Mr. Rapp was 14.<br />“Coming out stories should not be used to deflect from allegations of sexual assault,” Sarah Kate Ellis, president<br />and chief executive of Glaad, a gay rights organization, said in a statement.<br />But some of those who might have supported him were instead incensed by the implication<br />that his sexuality was relevant to an accusation, reported by BuzzFeed News, that he had made a sexual advance toward a 14-year-old boy 31 years ago.<br />“This is not a coming out story about Kevin Spacey,<br />but a story of survivorship by Anthony Rapp and all those who bravely speak out against unwanted sexual advances.<br />George Takei, who has used his large social media following to advocate social-justice causes, said in an emailed statement<br />that Mr. Rapp’s accusations were about power, not sexuality.
