“Everything in the world revolves around sex, except sex. Sex is about power,” Irish writer and closet homosexual Oscar Wilde once said. The hearing in the case “The King vs. Kevin Spacey Fowler”, which began today in Southwark Crown Court in London, will be about sex and power, more precisely: about non-consensual sex. The accused: A world-class gay artist who, at least at the time of the alleged crimes, had not yet been outed as such.

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