Have you completely forgotten about John Travolta and his raging heterosexuality? Of course you have. Because all was forgotten in the wake of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and Kristen Stewart and Rupert Sanders. There was simply no room for stories of John Travolta’s years-long “massage problem” or for any added news about JT’s groping and sexual assaults of men who simply weren’t interested. But some people remember. And what we do remember is along the lines of “Hey, Travolta is pretty gay, right? Is he out of the closet yet? Oh, what’s that? I lawsuit? Nevermind.” Which brings me to this story – Rashida Jones (daughter of Quincy, a man with his own substantial power base in Hollywood) decided to encourage Travolta to “come out” while she was promoting her latest film.

Parks and Recreation actress Rashida Jones has publicly urged John Travolta to come out of the closet following persistent rumors he is gay. The 36-year-old made her cheeky comments in an interview with SpinningPlatters.com.

Rashida was publicizing her movie Celeste and Jesse Forever when the conversation turned to her obsession with Frank Ocean who came out of the closet, earlier this year. Her writing partner and former boyfriend Will McCormack said: “There needs to be, like, a professional athlete that comes out.”

That’s when Rashida jumped in saying: “And a movie star! It’s time…Like John Travolta? Come out! Come on. How many masseurs have to come forward? Let’s do this.”

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, the 58-year-old married dad has been at the center of a sex scandal after a series of masseurs alleged he sexually assaulted them. There were also rumors that he allegedly had a six-year affair with his male pilot.

Now Rashida says the actor should follow in the footsteps of newsman Anderson Cooper and Frank Ocean and “come out.”

After praising them for taking the big step, she said: “But big stars need to come out. Ricky Martin was huge. That was big; I was really happy about that.”

And if John Travolta does “come out” Rashida wants him to do it while he is alive rather than have it revealed after his death.

She said: “People are so precious about their careers.”

Travolta has consistently denied stories that he is gay or has embarked on gay affairs.

[From Radar]

It feels like Rashida was just gossiping, like we all do, not that she has any “inside information” about the Travolta situation. Of course, it’s not like anyone needs inside information any more – enough masseurs have come out, and the reports are so widespread, I think most people have an inkling of Travolta’s sexuality. CB mentioned something interesting, though – Rashida seems to be treating Travolta’s “problem” as just a question of being able to come out of the proverbial closet, when really Travolta’s biggest problem right now is that he seems to need to sexually assault men. I get tired of people treating Travolta’s victims differently because they’re men – men can be the victims of sexual assault too.

But the first thing that Rashida’s comments made me think about was this nearly two-year-old interview with Carrie Fisher, a former friend of Travolta’s. When asked about Travolta’s (alleged!!) homosexuality, Carrie said in 2010, “I mean, my feeling about John has always been that we know and we don’t care. Look, I’m sorry that he’s uncomfortable with it, and that’s all I can say. It only draws more attention to it when you make that kind of legal fuss. Just leave it be.” Do you think it even matters to Travolta that members of establishment Hollywood continue to mention his glass closet?

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