//CW time period accurate homophobia
Okay okay I'm on my Entertainer X Vincent Whittman bullshit again. (StageTragedy? MediaTragedy? TVGinger? Gingerman sounds a little odd...)
Since Vincent and Ginger knew each other in the 40's, being gay obviously wasn't acceptable. Vincent may or may not have had a wife, I don't think Ginger would marry but he would court women.
Ginger def has affairs with men using discreet gay codes.
I think the Reporter and Ginger were close friends and knew that he was gay. The Reporter told Ginger that he got a "vibe" off of Vincent and Ginger sought after it.
After a bit of back and forth, Ginger flirting, Vincent thinking he's picking on him-- Ginger invites him to a gay bar. It's only after Vincent shows up that he realizes what it is... And it clicks
He stays, and eventually him and Ginger hookup, then they never talk about it again... Until they start hooking up again while they're alone. Vincent wonders why the Reporter keeps grinning at the two side by side, shooting a thumbs up at Ginger, or leaving the two by themselves often.
When Vincent kills off the Reporter to take his job, Ginger begins his spiral downward. Although there weren't outright rumors to the public, people in the studio whispered around him. He didn't have his friend there to reassure him, keep him in the loop of what's going on, or genuinely ask him how he's been.
And although him and Vincent talk, they don't get personal. Vincent began to notice Ginger's distance, he stopped going to bars, and now on his talk show, he started mainly discussing Hollywood, scandals, and rumored homosexual actors-- how hypocritical.
Ginger was trying to protect himself while dealing with the grief of losing a best friend at the same time by stonewalling. But as this goes on, Vincent gets less and less comfortable with him. Eventually, it became too much when someone in the studio was invited to talk.
They jokingly asked if he thought Reporter Whittman would end up being "one of those."
"Well, I don't know. We don't get personal or in the nitty gritty with each other, but I suppose I can get someone to ask Dorothy."
It was supposed to be a joke. A lighthearted one, he was a TV personality! He had to be funny and interesting... Vincent would beg to differ, as now men laughed when they saw him in the station and women were walking up to him to ask if he knew Dorothy.
If Ginger was gonna start throwing stones, Vincent was gonna shatter his glass house. His original plan was to defame him by outing him. However, the day before the plan took place, Ginger ended up drinking at the job and spilling his guts to Vincent.
He... Didn't know what to do with that. Ginger is in his way of his goal, physically, emotionally, and blackmail wise-- whether or not he'd go that far with it was not something Vincent is gonna gamble on. But now he felt like SHIT. So, he gave himself something better than destroying his life.
Vincent killed Ginger.
Destruction of career and life was something Vincent would rather die than to deal with, so he wouldn't curse Ginger like that.