There was something unusual about the recent allegation that Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted the then 14-year-old Anthony Rapp. Not that it happened, or that it was a widely known but unreported secret. What was unusual was that one gay man was alleging abuse by another man.

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The Quiet Normalisation of Abuse

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