November 1, 2017
How Calling Kevin Spacey a Pedophile Hurts the Gay Community by Joseph Fischel
Everyone loves to hate a pedophile, even if they’ve made him up. Immediately after Kevin Spacey tweeted an apology on Sunday night for allegedly making sexual advances toward a then-teenaged Anthony Rapp in 1986, he was “Milo-ed”—demonized and outcast under the banner of pedophilia—mostly by gay leaders, but also by everyone else (even here at Slate and by Milo himself). Eight months ago, my colleague Gabriel Rosenberg and I, responding to the outrage around Milo Yiannoupolis’ comments on gay intergenerational sex…(read more here)