Kevin Spacey may have finally come out of the closet yesterday, but his fellow LGBT Hollywood heavy hitters have delivered a firm message: We wish you hadn't.
Spacey's public statement announcing that he now "choose[s] to live as a gay man" came just hours after actor Anthony Rapp went public with an allegation that Spacey had drunkenly groped him at a party in 1986.
Spacey would have been 26 at the time of the alleged incident, while Rapp was just 14.
Out gay Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto, who acted alongside Spacey in the 2011 thriller Margin Call, led the charge against his former co-star, issuing a statement of his own that has now been shared on Twitter far more than Spacey's initial announcement.
"It is deeply sad and troubling that this is how Kevin Spacey has chosen to come out," Quinto wrote. "Not by standing up as a point of pride - in the light of all his many awards and accomplishments - thus inspiring tens of thousands of struggling LGBTQ kids around the world. But as a calculated manipulation to deflect attention from a very serious accusation that he attempted to molest one.
