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Excerpts from an upcoming memoir by The Umbrella Academy actor Elliot Page have revealed the Juno star allegedly received a rape threat from an “acquaintance” at a Los Angeles party – six years before they came out as transgender. Page came out as gay in 2014, but in a section of the book seen and shared by People, the 36-year-old details an incident at a birthday party two months later in which the unnamed individual claimed, “you aren’t gay – that doesn’t exist” and that the Canadian was “just afraid of men”. The chapter, titled “Famous A**hole at Party”, goes on to add the male then reportedly told Page: “I’m going to f*** you to make you realise you aren’t gay.” Despite the threat of ‘corrective rape’ – a hate crime where the abuser seeks to change or ‘cure’ a person’s sexuality, often to heterosexuality – the anonymous actor apparently told Page at the gym, where they saw each other again a few days later, that they “don’t have a problem with gay people, I swear.” “I think you might,” Page replied. Expanding on the situation, Page told People he’s had “some version” of the incident “happen many times throughout my life”. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter “A lot of queer and trans people deal with it incessantly. These moments that we often like don’t talk about or we’re supposed to just brush off, when actually it’s very awful. “I put that story in the book because it’s about highlighting the reality, the s*** we deal with and what gets sent to us constantly – particularly in environments that are predominantly cis and heterosexual. “How we navigate that world where you either have more extreme, overt moments like that, or you have the more, like, subtle jokes. [In Hollywood] these are very powerful people – they’re the ones choosing what stories are being told and creating content for people to see all around the world,” they said. Page added that although he’s “purposely” not sharing the name of the individual, the person “will hear about this and know it’s him”, and there were others who saw and heard what happened at the party. Pageboy is published on Tuesday. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

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OnlyFans star Alexia Grace has made headlines recently after getting into a physical fight at the press conference between fighters KSI vs Joe Fournier. The incident broke out between Grace and fellow OnlyFans creator Astrid Wett and resulted in security guards having to physically separate the pair. Grace has made headlines but may be an unfamiliar face for those who are not involved in the industry. Who is OnlyFans star Alexia Grace? Grace is a former flight attendant from the East Midlands who packed in the world of customer service for a different type of service altogether. The 20-something model used to work for Jet2 as a flight attendant and as a Costa Coffee barista, but left her last job in March 2021 to become a content creator on the adult platform OnlyFans. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter According to Grace, she now makes £25,000 a month working an average of 8 hours per day, rather than her previous salary of £600 per week. On her earnings, she has been able to travel the world, spending two months in Mexico last year and six months in Dubai the previous year. Last week, Grace attended the press conference ahead of the KSI vs Joe Fournier fight at London’s Wembley Arena, where she was involved in a brawl with Wett. According to footage of the incident, Wett suggested that Grace had “chucked water” on her. Wett said: “I am coming for you, you f**king b**ch!” @itsalexiagrace1 fight me astrid…. In a TikTok after the scuffle, Grace said: “Astrid, punching me outside of the ring was low, but I’ll tell you what’s even worse – that you punched me with your bare fists and that is all you can do.” Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 ranki

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