90 Sentences With "came out of the closet"

But when I came out of the closet, everything snowballed.

It's around this time I came out of the closet.

My dad came out of the closet when I was 28.

Buttigieg came out of the closet in 2015 and married his husband, Chasten, in June 2018.

When my brother came out of the closet, it wasn't a big deal for my family.

Take Jodie Foster, who sort of came out of the closet in a rambling 2013 acceptance speech.

I thought of my best friend, who came out of the closet to me on prom night.

They came out of the closet there is no journalism on the mainstream media left and it was absolutely shambolic.

But once I came out of the closet, I was able to get in touch with guys my own age.

When I came out of the closet in 1978, I never imagined that I would get to be a mother.

I embraced cannabis as part of my wellness routine and creative process, and came out of the closet as a consumer.

In "Smile," he reveals that his mother came out of the closet as a lesbian and that he's extremely happy for her.

"I started to meet gay people and slowly came out of the closet after being married for three years," Walker told me.

He came out of the closet in full after the Stonewall riots in 1968, but paid a price for his refusal to sneak.

I came out of my mom's body, I came out of the closet, and now I feel like this is my third coming out.

Being raised Muslim, I didn't celebrate Christmas at all until I came out of the closet and left the house over 16 years ago.

When Savoy Howe moved to Toronto from New Brunswick in the late 203s to pursue her theatre degree, she also came out of the closet.

"The only thing I knew how to do when I came out of the closet was to be invisible and to hate myself," she says.

Fran Drescher was married for 20 years to her high school sweetheart Peter Marc Jacobson, who came out of the closet two years after their marriage ended.

In March, as her days on daytime were dwindling, Rosie came out of the closet to protest a law in Florida that banned adoption by gay couples.

In response to this Spacey came out of the closet in a statement, a move that was derided by the LGBTQ community as an attempt to mask the allegations.

Years later, and after tireless efforts by India's LGBT community, celebrities came out of the closet to step up to make their pleas heard before the country's Supreme Court.

He came out of the closet and admitted to both the process addiction of sex and cocaine with all of the concomitant risks to his career and even his life.

And then when she got divorced, came out of the closet, married a white Frenchwoman and adopted two white children, her perspective and stories expanded and became far more idiosyncratic.

"This was the most important event at CPAC; Trump came out of the closet in the sense of revealing he is a conservative," said former Virginia GOP Chair Jeffrey Frederick.

" In May 2012, Parsons quietly came out of the closet after a profile in the New York Times matter-of-factly described him as "gay and in a 10-year relationship.

But it would be another three years before he fully came out of the closet, a move that was emotionally freeing yet resulted in near total excommunication from members of his former colony.

His intimate conversations turned the garage into a confessional booth for comics, one where Todd Glass came out of the closet and Carlos Mencia and Dane Cook addressed accusations that they stole jokes.

It seems so long ago, but it has been only a week since Mr. West came out of the closet as the same-dragon-loving, Trump-supporting, slave-shaming, alt-fact fire breather.

The writer-director Mike Mills's last movie, "Beginners," was a lightly comic, fictionalized weepie about his father, who came out of the closet in his mid-70s when his son was an adult.

" Fans have gone wild in response to the videos of Smith's proclamation at the concert over the weekend, with one user writing on Twitter, "Jaden Smith just came out of the closet and omggdhbsfhsnnal.

Most famously, she came out of the closet in 1997 while still the star of a primetime network sitcom, and weathered both the ensuing controversy and her show's cancellation to survive and thrive in Hollywood.

We put our bodies on the line at the FDA, and in so doing, we came out of the closet and shattered the myth of the homosexual of being weak, timid, afraid—unwilling to fight back.

The Ethicist The patriarch of our large family came out of the closet as an elderly man nearing the end of his life; he now has a husband who is much younger, whom I will call Tim.

Jose Antonio Vargas: As a 38-year-old gay man who came out of the closet when I was 18, I'm proud and grateful to live in a time when being homophobic is, for the most part, culturally unacceptable.

He was 33 when he came out of the closet, meaning that even as a young adult his years of experience with love, or to use a military term, his "training age," as he put it in his book, was essentially zero.

I came out of the closet before I had started puberty, not because I wanted to, or because I had independently identified my sexual orientation, but because I was enduring social abuse every day as classmates verbally accosted me for being feminine.

"Our goal is not only to gain acceptance as much in Mexican society but in the gay players that don't know how to accept themselves," says Pineda, who came out of the closet when he moved to Mexico City to go to college when he was 21.

Depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder came out of the closet, if gingerly, and the generation that came of age during this time — people now in their 40s, give or take — did so in a culture that no longer automatically presumed that depression was a character flaw.

" Rob Salkowitz on the superhero backlash: "One of the things that happened that drove comics into the mainstream in the early 2000s was a bunch of up-and-coming thought leaders in the elite community came out of the closet as comic fans—people like Ta-Nehisi Coates, who's now writing Black Panther for Marvel, and Ezra Klein, and Spencer Ackerman, people like that.

Sue began the series as a potential outcast, but her endless font of optimism and essential kindness meant that as the series wore on, she found her people, making very good friends and even supporting one of them when he came out of the closet (in a storyline about what it means to be a gay man in a town that might not seem to be the most open or accepting that's as good as any in TV history).

Shane Harris, How the CIA Came Out of the Closet, Daily Beast (July 31, 2015).

Meagher is a recovering alcoholic who achieved sobriety in 1975; he came out of the closet shortly thereafter.

During his time in law school he publicly came out of the closet. After graduating he returned to California.

In 2007, he publicly came out of the closet in an interview with the literary magazine TelQuel,. which created controversy in Morocco..

Although he never came out of the closet while alive, a modern scholar believes Dochez was gay. His coworker was Oswald Avery, with whom he shared an apartment for decades. Dochez was a devout Catholic.

Marchant only officially came out of the closet in 1990 with a public appearance at a Lambda Rising Bookstore. Marchant and Crawford remained together in Rehoboth until the end of their lives. During winters, they lived in Lighthouse Point, Florida.

Charles Henry Cochrane, Jr. was born August 5, 1943. In 1963, Cochrane enlisted in the United States Army.Sharon Rosenthal, "New York Policeman Came Out of the Closet, Into the Spotlight", New York Daily News. Reprinted in the Lakeland Ledger, Jan.

Kalmann was born in Haifa and is the youngest son of Dov Kalmann and Sylvia Cohen, immigrants from the Netherlands. At an early age, he moved with his family to Kfar Saba. His parents divorced when he was eight years old, and later, his father came out of the closet, after his grandfather came out of the closet before that.DINA HALUTZ, Third Generation Gay: Imri Kalmann in Israel Talks Coming Out and Politics, WDG, OCTOBER 26, 2017 He served in the IDF for five years, during which he served as an adjutant in the Armored Corps, as team commander of corps officer completion courses, and as a human resource development officer for the navy's submarine project.

After winning the election, Munter quickly became a prominent member of the council. He pushed through an initiative to install condom dispensers in some municipal buildings. He also chaired the Kanata Police Services Board. In 1993, he came out of the closet as the Ottawa area's first openly gay politician.

Though her husband was wonderful, she came out of the closet when she was 30, recognizing her love for a woman. Taking translation courses with Eila Pennanen, the two became friends and Juva was influenced to try a career in translation. She studied linguistics with Viljo Tervonen, graduating with her bachelor's degree in 1972.

38 Caliber Killer shot her. Young Mike came out of the closet and rubbed the moisturizing cream on her dead mother's hands, asking her to wake up. Blue marbles had spilled all over the floor, and young Mike carries one out as she leaves with a police officer. The killer had taken the Florida snow globe.

Make-up artist Monsieur Mosse, Raimo Jääskeläinen. Monsieur Mosse, originally Raimo Jääskeläinen, was a Finnish make-up artist (1932–1992). Monsieur Mosse was the first openly gay Finnish celebrity, who "came out of the closet" in 1971. His nickname refers to his role as a UN ranger called Mosse in the Åke Lindman-directed film Laukaus Kyproksella.

Another actor that returned to television was Arturo Puig, who starred the success Grande, pá! in the 1990s. He was initially reluctant to do so, and intended to work just in guest appearances. Adrián Suar convinced him to be a steady part of the cast by pointing that he would play a gay character who had just came out of the closet.

Aviance was born into a mixed race family with a Black father and a White mother.Erickatoure's exclusive interview on the official Hey Qween YouTube Channel : "Erickatoure Aviance on Hey Qween! With Jonny McGovern". Published 29 Jun 2017 (also premiere of her music video OVAH;) She grew up in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and came out of the closet at a young age.

Dilbert is sometimes found in the business section of a newspaper instead of the comics page because of the strip's commentary about office politics, and Tank McNamara often appears on the sports page because of its subject matter. Lynn Johnston's For Better or for Worse created an uproar when Lawrence, one of the strip's supporting characters, came out of the closet.

Rene is a gay man who came out of the closet at age 70. Ailing in his twilight years, he thinks it is now too late for love, even companionship, and that all there is to look forward to is Death. He has made a will, bequeathing his few possessions to his even fewer friends. Everything is packed and labeled, ready for distribution.

Guillermo Almada was a high school student in the 1980s, friend of the school bully Pablo Catáneo. He came out of the closet during a reunion of former students, and was supported by everybody, except Pablo. Victoria Lauría, who used to have a crush on him, stayed as his friend, and helped him with his partner's daughter. Guillermo Almada got married by the end of the series.

On coming out, Lane stated in an interview that "I've spent my entire life feeling shame for being gay and once I came out of the closet, I realized that I'm proud to be gay." Lane's favorite singers are Mariah Carey, Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, and Jennifer Hudson. He is a long-time friend of composer and pianist Henry Koperski, with whom he sometimes performs.

While still in college, Aalfs came out of the closet as a lesbian. She would go on to get her Master's of Fine Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College. Shortly thereafter she founded a women's writing group, and eventually two lesbian writing groups: Calypso Borealis and the Tuesday Night Lesbian Writers Group. She also founded Orogeny Press, a publishing house for fiction and lesbian poetry.

Victoria Lauría was the best friend of María Laura Falsini (Nancy Dupláa) in high school. She had a crush on fellow student Guillermo Almada (Juan Gil Navarro). Lauría and Falsini stayed as friends and confidants after graduation, and Lauría became a psychologist. Her crush on Almada ended during a meeting of former students, several years later, when he came out of the closet and revealed that he was gay.

With cinematography by Kasper Tuxen, Beginners was filmed using the Red One digital camera. Much of the film is autobiographical, and is based on director Mike Mills' experiences after his own father came out of the closet following his mother's death. The "Siedem Razy Kobieta" poster on the wall in Oliver's dining room is from the Polish language version of the 1967 Shirley MacLaine film Woman Times Seven.

Itzik Shmuli, 2015 Shmuli was one of the leaders of the 2011 Israeli social justice protests. In July 2015, following a stabbing incident at Jerusalem's gay pride parade, Shmuli wrote in an article to Yedioth Ahronoth that "when the knife is raised around the neck of an entire LGBT community, my community, it will not stop there"; in this article, he became the first Knesset Member who came out of the closet during his term.

Later that year, he revealed his until-then hidden homosexuality to his parents and family who disowned him. Immediately after revealing his sexual orientation to his family, he informed the university and the other Missouri coaches. According to Hawkins, the university and his assistant coaches were supportive of his decision. The discussion continued for almost two years, until, on June 6, 2006, he finally posted under his real name and came out of the closet.

Mr. Herbert J Garrison (voiced by Trey Parker) has been the children's teacher throughout most of the series. In the beginning, Garrison was in denial of his homosexuality to the point of homophobia, and was always seen with either of his hand puppets that he claimed were gay. Later he went missing, hiding on a mountain, living in isolation. He eventually "came out of the closet" and returned with the intention to teach again.

Philipp Karner was born July 15, 1979, in Vienna, Austria, where his parents were both social workers. He has a younger brother and younger sister. He came out of the closet to his family when he was 15 or 16 years old, although Karner told the press that he struggled with his sexuality for several more years and even dated a girl for a time. Karner knew he wanted to be an actor from an early age.

In 1977 Boyd came out of the closet, becoming one of the first prominent American clergymen to publicly acknowledge his homosexuality. In the 1980s Boyd met Mark Thompson, an author, journalist and activist. Boyd and Thompson were domestic partners for almost 30 years and were married in 2013.. Boyd considered his partnership and marriage to Thompson to be one of the most fulfilling aspects of his life. They resided in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

At the end of Outland in 1995, Steve came out of the closet and admitted he was gay. In his final appearance in the comic, he had married a man (Doonesbury's Mark Slackmeyer) and was thinking about adopting children. However, in Opus nine years later, Steve was back to his babe-mongering ways after enrolling in the "Rev. Doogle De-Poofta" which used shock therapy to attempt to "cure" homosexuality; in a form of conversion therapy.

Caroline wants to seduce Olivier, but he resists Caroline's advances. Olivier came out as gay later in life than James, so Olivier has sexual experience with women that James doesn't have. Caroline began her attempt at seducing Olivier when she learned that he had slept with women in the past before he came out of the closet, hoping that she could convince Olivier to sleep with women again. James is unaware that his friend is attempting to seduce his boyfriend.

In 1976, his father resigned from the ministry and the Lauderdale family opened a plant nursery near North Manchester. The family moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1982, after his parents divorced and his father came out of the closet. In the 1990s, his parents went on several talk shows – including 20/20, Oprah, Jane Whitney, and Christina, to talk about what happens when a spouse comes out. Kerby returned to the ministry, and is the first openly gay pastor in his denomination.

Ellis was born and raised on Staten Island, where she attended Staten Island Academy. She and her older brother Spencer were raised by their parents, Barbara and Ken Ellis. During her youth, Ellis was an athlete; she participated in field hockey and was a Junior Olympic swimmer. While attending Russell Sage College, Ellis led a media campaign against the college administration's attempt to shut down the only women's center on campus and, in her senior year of college, Ellis came out of the closet as a lesbian.

Her character on the sitcom also came out of the closet to her therapist, played by Oprah Winfrey. The coming-out episode, titled "The Puppy Episode", was one of the highest-rated episodes of the show. The series returned for a fifth season but experienced falling ratings due to ABC's cutting back on promoting the show. It was believed that The Walt Disney Company, ABC's parent owner, had become uncomfortable with the subject matter depicted on the show now that DeGeneres' character was openly gay.

In 1997, when American comedian Ellen DeGeneres came out of the closet on her popular sitcom, many sponsors, such as the Wendy's fast-food chain, pulled their advertising. Media depictions have both benefited and disadvantaged LGBT communities. Milestones to the lesbian and gay communities such as the book Vice Versa and Ellen DeGeneres coming out have encouraged other LGBT people to come out and feel better about being themselves. Despite the stereotypical depictions of gay people, the media has at times promoted acceptance with television shows such as Will and Grace and Queer Eye.

Goss was born in Quincy, Illinois, and raised in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Central Missouri before moving to Washington, DC to attend a Roman Catholic seminary. Shortly after entry, he decided to take a different path and pursued work in the nonprofit industry, working at Charlie's Place as a Program Manager in Washington DC. He also pursued his music, performing in local coffeehouses. During this time, he came out of the closet and soon after met his husband, Mike Briggs, whom he married in October 2010.

For her mandatory military service in the Israeli Defense Forces, she served in the Technology and Maintenance Corps. At age 22 she came out of the closet as a lesbian, and following this she changed her political affiliation, connecting to figures like Shulamit Aloni, Yael Dayan, and the Ratz party with an interest in protecting LGBT rights. She studied history at Tel Aviv University, and worked as a text and layout editor in the book publishing field. At age 29 she met her partner, and together they raised one son.

The tongue-in-cheek series centered on Rob Malone, President of LGT, and his efforts to boost the network's sagging ratings with Lori Volpone, the scheming Vice-President of Development, and Malcolm Laffley, a gay man who came out of the closet to clear himself of sexual harassment charges levied against him by a woman. Each episode provided amusing insight into how a network runs, from how its executives deal with temperamental stars to how they make big budget deals while trying to keep the network financially stable.

McArthur later worked as a merchandising representative for Stanfield's, a garment company, servicing GTA retailers like Hudson's Bay Company and Sears. McArthur began having sexual affairs with men in the early 1990s. More than a year later he came out of the closet to his wife, but they continued living together. Sometime after 1993, McArthur's employment in the clothing trade came to an end and the couple faced financial difficulty, in part due to legal issues connected to their then-teenaged son, Todd, who was obsessively making obscene phone calls to women he did not know.

Tommy, born in 1969 or 1970, is the third child and firstborn son of Nora Holden Walker and the late William Walker. Like his father, Tommy is a conservative Republican, though this is rarely touched on with the exception of the backstory of when his younger brother Kevin came out of the closet he was the one who was the least accepting of the news. Tommy was married to Julia Walker. Tommy spent years working under his father and his uncle, Saul Holden, at Ojai Foods, hoping he would be able to take over the business someday.

There is currently a widespread ban of references in child-related entertainment, and when references do occur, they almost invariably generate controversy. In 1997, when American comedian Ellen DeGeneres came out of the closet on her popular sitcom, many sponsors, such as the Wendy's fast food chain, pulled their advertising.Gomestic. 2009. Stanza Ltd Also, a portion of the media has attempted to make the gay community included and publicly accepted with television shows such as Will & Grace or Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. This increased publicity reflects the Coming out movement of the LGBT community.

Winfrey celebrating her 50th birthday among friends at her Santa Barbara estate, 2004 Winfrey's best friend since their early twenties is Gayle King. King was formerly the host of The Gayle King Show and is currently an editor of O, the Oprah Magazine. Since 1997, when Winfrey played the therapist on an episode of the sitcom Ellen in which Ellen DeGeneres came out of the closet, Winfrey and King have been the target of persistent rumors that they were gay. "I understand why people think we're gay", Winfrey says in the August 2006 issue of O magazine.

Lilith marries her fiancé Brian (James Morrison), an MIT seismologist who appears in only one episode "Adventures in Paradise, Part Two" (1994). A later episode, "Room Service" (1998), reveals that Lilith is recently divorced from Brian after he came out of the closet. Her final Frasier episode is "Guns 'N Neuroses" (2003), where Lilith's colleague Nancy (Christine Dunford), sets Frasier up on a blind date with Lilith, having no idea of their mutual history. However, the two meet up for a drink while Lilith is in Seattle and, when it overruns, they both end up cancelling on the blind date (never learning they had been set up with each other).

Gordon Johnston "Jonathan" Stark (born February 16, 1955) is an American television producer, writer, and actor. He created—along with his writing partner, Tracy Newman—the sitcom According to Jim and won an Emmy for his co- writing on "The Puppy Episode" in which Ellen DeGeneres's character Ellen Morgan came out of the closet on Ellen in 1997. As an actor, he is best known for playing the vampire bodyguard and servant Billy Cole in Fright Night (1985), Sergeant Krieger in Project X (1987), and Charlie in House II: The Second Story (1987). Jonathan and his wife Linda have been married since May 17, 1992, and have two children, Gracie and Ruby.

Lee was a riot police officer at Yongsan Police Station and the first Korean riot policeman who came out as gay. As he continually called for dismantling of the Korean riot police, the Korean National Police Agency filed for a warrant for his arrest after reports he tried to touch the body parts of 13 colleagues without their permission."Gay Riot Police Officer Accused of Sexual Assault" Korea Times 1 July 2008 However, he believed this was done in revenge, because Lee drew public attention when he came out of the closet earlier this year. He recently filed for a transfer saying the environment did not fit his work and political ethics.

In a parody of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, presented as a stage musical, Moe is lonely and upset that he does not have a girlfriend and is jealous when he sees Homer and Marge together. When Homer falls into the basement of the bar and is impaled by the microbrew pipes, his blood becomes the secret ingredient in Moe's new beer. Everyone loves this new beer, saying that it makes them feel warm, secure and cozy on the inside. Moe uses this to his advantage and woos Marge, tricking her into thinking that Homer came out of the closet as gay and left Marge, when in reality, Homer is slowly dying from losing blood.

Jon-Marc McDonald (born September 20, 1976) is an American-born writer, playwright, political campaign manager and political activist. McDonald gained national attention when, at the age of 21, he simultaneously came out of the closet as a gay man and resigned as campaign manager from the 1998 United States congressional campaign of conservative Republican candidate Brian Babin. On May 27, 2016, McDonald presented his paper, "Relatively Conscious: the Enduring Rage of Baldwin and the Education of a White Southern Baptist Queer," as well as chaired a panel discussion entitled "Baldwin's Rage and Ethics" at the annual International James Baldwin Conference in Paris, France. The paper was subsequently published in volume 2 of the James Baldwin Review.

Rosenthal supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq and openly suggested that the United States should give Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria, and Sudan an ultimatum and order the countries to deliver documents and information related to weapons of mass destruction and terrorist organizations. Otherwise, "in the three days the terrorists were considering the American ultimatum, the residents of the countries would be urged 24 hours a day by the U.S. to flee the capital and major cities, because they would be bombed to the ground beginning the fourth day."A.M. Rosenthal: How the U.S. can win the war, New York Daily News. September 14, 2001 Rosenthal was also reported to be extremely homophobic,"When The New York Times Came Out of the Closet" by Charles Kaiser, The New York Review of Books, Sept.

The series was a tongue-in-cheek deconstruction of organised religion, and featured his first overtly homosexual character: a lesbian vicar portrayed by Sue Holderness, who came out of the closet in a two-hander episode with Carole Nimmons. Davies attributes the revelation about Holderness's character as a consequence of both the "pressure cooker nature" of the show and the recent ordination of female vicars in the Church of England. He let his contract with Granada expire and pitched a new early-evening soap opera to Channel 4, RU, with its creator Bill Moffat, Sandra Hastie, a producer on Moffat's previous series Press Gang, and co-writer Paul Cornell. Although the slot was eventually taken by Hollyoaks, he and Cornell mutually benefited from the pitch: Davies introduced Cornell to the Children's Ward producers and established contact with Moffat's son Steven, and Cornell introduced Davies to Virgin Publishing.

I felt like I had nothing in common with the gay community, and I > still don't feel like I have a lot in common with the community. I'm hoping > that changes, but the majority of their icons are press-friendly little > Mickey Mouse-doll figureheads that you're more likely to see on a show > redecorating somebody's house than onstage at a blues festival... When I > came out of the closet as a gay white male from an upper-middle-class > suburban home, I came out as not just gay, but as a white guy, and as a guy > who likes punk, and as a guy who didn't come from total poverty, and all > those things that we associate with being 'blues' things. And when I did > that, I wanted to sing about that. I wanted to write songs about what my > life was like, and I wanted to use terminology that was modern.

In the seventh season, when Benton arranges for the surgery of a Medicare patient over Romano's objections, Romano fires Benton and then blacklists him throughout the community, making it almost impossible for him to find a job in Chicago which forced Benton to come back and accept a daily call, no-benefits job from Romano. After Benton impresses Romano by keeping his mouth shut and doing the job, Romano "rewards" him with a raise and benefits but also manipulates him into taking on a new post related to affirmative action at County (but is then outmaneuvered when Benton gets a talented African-American student a previously-denied interview, and the student is then accepted into medical school). In addition, Romano stops at nothing to fire Dr. Kim Legaspi, a psychiatric attending and love interest of Weaver. The two both realize that she was being discriminated against for her homosexuality by Romano and Kerry came out of the closet to Romano when announcing she would defend Kim.

Showalter also came up against criticism in the late 1990s for some of her writing on popular culture that appeared in magazines like People and Vogue. Deirdre English, in the American magazine The Nation, wrote: :As the poststructuralist critique of identity politics took hold over the following decade and more, it became unfashionable, in ideas and in dress, it seemed, for the avant-garde of the female professoriate to identify with either men or women. English quotes Showalter's controversial 1997 Vogue article: > From Mary Wollstonecraft to Naomi Wolf, feminism has often taken a hard line > on fashion, shopping, and the whole beauty Monty.... But for those of us > sisters hiding Welcome to Your Facelift inside The Second Sex, a passion for > fashion can sometimes seem a shameful secret life.... I think it's time I > came out of the closet. Showalter was reportedly severely criticized by her academic colleagues for her stance in favour of patriarchal symbols of consumer capitalism and traditional femininity.