Andrea Constand: The lesbian accuser who took down Bill Cosby.

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Before the national reckoning around sexual harassment and abuse that prompted the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, Andrea Constand — whose case led to a jury finding Bill Cosby guilty of sexual assault on Thursday — came out publicly in 2015 as a lesbian to challenge her attacker’s assertion that he knew how to read the desires of the women he assaulted.