When Kevin Sacey tried to pivot the revelation of his alleged assault on a 14 year-old boy into a good news coming out story, it went down like a lead balloon with the queer community, who rightfully saw the conflation of homosexuality with predatory sexual behaviour towards a minor as wrong and harmful. Now we have Al Porter, who has always been out of the closet, saying that his alleged groping of other men was “in keeping” with his “flamboyant and outrageous public persona”.
What a bizarre, and misguided apology. Not to put too fine a point on it, being flamboyant and outrageous is one thing, groping someone non-consensually is something entirely other.
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