At one point or another, most queer Muslims have either been a closeted Muslim or a closeted queer.
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They failed to grasp the weight of John's closeted lifestyle, and how crippling it was, first for him, and then for me, to keep it closeted.
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A closeted John Gielgud got the same prize in 1981.
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Lito Rodriguez is a closeted homosexual actor in Mexico City.
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In the more closeted British system, much is still subterranean.
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The closeted Maugham is accustomed to buying off indiscreet playmates.
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Everybody was closeted, so that was part of the problem.
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Still, there is something like love in Cohn's closeted life.
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Emily (Shay Mitchell) is the closeted lesbian with religious parents.
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The newsroom has the air of a frat house, though one where closeted lesbian and closeted liberal Jess Carr (a fictional character played by Kate McKinnon) can stick around if she keeps her mouth shut.
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But what isn't evident is the sadness they felt being closeted.
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Gay and closeted, he drinks to drown his feelings of isolation.
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This fat middle was growing and they were closeted and underserved.
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I don't think being closeted has never made the art better.
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He was very closeted, but he lived in the big city.
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Rumi and Shamsuddin "closeted themselves away for many months," Azziz wrote.
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In the rest of the US, queer people remained largely closeted.
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He was married, and remained closeted for much of his life.
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Thorpe is hiding a secret: he is a closeted queer man.
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Three Aussie blokes share the same closeted obsession: Taylor Allison Swift.
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I was basically the first non-closeted trans woman I knew.
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Regarding the first point: My father was indeed a closeted homosexual.
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Every day I try to make my younger, closeted self proud.
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TAYLOR I was playing a closeted actor, refusing to come out.
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It's got these very closeted but very accepted forms of corruption.
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Discussion of homosexuality is taboo and most gay people remain deeply closeted.
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A closeted gay lunatic sitting on the ground of a literal closet.
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There's another closeted kid at school, whom Simon connects with via email.
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Personally, Jaffa was a homophobe while Bloom was a closeted gay man.
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Ted never struck me as closeted; he was just who he was.
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Throughout, Uglow patiently traces the contours of a closeted gay man's life.
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It was more the fear you have that comes with being closeted.
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Openly self-hating people are just better than closeted self-hating people.
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When McGillis was a player, he kept himself closeted and dated women.
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Ties I was a closeted gay kid who loved Broadway show tunes.
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The conversation turned to gun politics; I'm a closeted gun rights sympathizer.
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But most incongruous of all was his feminism, closeted until Tuesday night.
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EICHNER He was this quiet closeted gay boy in Iowa, and I was this louder closeted gay guy in New York City, but we were both locked in our rooms watching cable TV and sucking it all in.
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The life of a "closeted" FGM survivor living in London can be unbearable.
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"You can imagine that just drives people to be more closeted," said Warbelow.
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I barely made it through high school locker rooms and I was closeted.
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Charlie Crist "Miss Charlie" and claimed that he was a closeted gay man.
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"It would have killed me to be closeted for that long," she said.
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Do you think Fiorina is running as openly female, or is she closeted?
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But I don't want other closeted gay Russians to share my negative experience.
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"There are a lot of people here who are deeply closeted," says Alice.
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White was gay, and closeted, and he had sadistic urges and abusive parents.
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I can look back now and see the repressed closeted teenager I was.
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A closeted lesbian, Taylor typically wore bluejeans and men's black button-front shirts.
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When you're deeply closeted, it's hard for people to see that, I think.
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I want to try and break [every paradigm] that people are closeted about.
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Dear Kelsey,I'm a closeted bisexual, living in an amazingly homophobic African country.
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Historically, gay bars have been side-street hideaways, architecturally closeted warrens of secrecy.
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Mr. Brandon was nowhere in sight—"closeted with another fit," Mistress Brandon said.
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"There's a good chunk of closeted conservatives that feel very suppressed," he said.
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In the early 2010s, I was still closeted, with a wife and children.
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"Most of the customers were closeted married men," he said of the Stonewall.
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Some closeted LGBT Muslims feared of being associated with "the gay mosque," he said.
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Russ seems to want Gorey to be regretfully closeted, but it's not clear why.
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Annette heavily alludes to Frank being closeted, and Claire tells her to shut up!
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Meanwhile, his closeted lover has tired of his drinking and decided to get married.
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There are multiple reports now that Omar Mateen, the Orlando gunman, was possibly closeted.
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She plays a closeted cheerleader who's being blackmailed by a homophobic bully, only — twist!
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Some might see that a tribute to Takei, previously a closeted gay actor himself.
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These "plug-and-play" identities can make closeted L.G.B.T. people feel isolated and unseen.
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But reaching communities of closeted gay men in the remote mountain region poses challenges.
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Much of Roanoke's LGBT community was still closeted at the time of the shooting.
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Terrified and in agony over her closeted life, J.J. attempted suicide, and the entire game is a sort of near-death fever dream where J.J.'s identity swims between liminal spaces — closeted and out, alive and dead, whole and in literal pieces.
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He's also gay, and living as a closeted homosexual mountain lion in 1953 is awful.
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Unlike closeted lesbians who could pass for straight, butch-femme couples made queer women visible.
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But you know what every closeted 12 year old on the internet assumed it was?
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He knew he could make life easier for closeted teenagers and other skaters, he said.
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She was a shy, self-described loner who lived most of her life extremely closeted.
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She and her partner, who was also in the military, lived their lives deeply closeted.
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Sidney Franklin was "hiding in plain sight" as a closeted bullfighter in a macho sport.
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"Fun Home," Alison Bechdel's illustrated memoir, details her relationship with her exacting, closeted, erudite father.
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Cracker, delivering a weird closeted meth cook, merited a separate challenge, fragrance and gender identity.
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It is a subject that should be opened for discussion and not denied or closeted.
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But his flamboyant behavior disconcerted many colleagues, especially Boulez, who kept his own gayness closeted.
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I was stuck in North Carolina, where people were closeted and my family was religious.
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Closeted [kloz-i-tid] | adjective Describes a person who is not open about their sexual orientation.
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At the time, the country star was in a loving (but closeted) relationship with a man.
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VS: Have other closeted members of the skate community reached out to you since the video?
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His work is a subtle form of activism that desires to visualize a once-closeted population.
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The film questions traditional expectations of Xhosa masculinity through its depiction of a closeted gay relationship.
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This put him in collision with his former friend Bloom, who was a closeted gay man.
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It also chronicles the then-closeted King's relationship with her hairdresser Marilyn Barnett (played by Riseborough).
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It's impossible to quantify the impact "The Puppy Episode" had on closeted kids of that generation.
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They found that while 52 percent of respondents said they were out, 13 percent remain closeted.
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After Forbes's death, Michelangelo Signorile reported on his closeted life in the now-shuttered OutWeek magazine.
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Though his boyfriend at the time was with him at the Games, he was still closeted.
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As a closeted lesbian teenager, that was exciting to me—the (seemingly) riskiness of it all.
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I was another "proud feminist" battling closeted daddy issues and body insecurities while ridiculing other women.
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Six years into the crisis, queer Americans were mostly closeted and rarely engaged in national demonstrations.
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I remember first realizing the dynamic as a scrawny, closeted high schooler watching Will and Grace.
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In hundreds of pages of court filings, they related the emotional cost of living closeted lives.
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Most gay men were closeted, and many would have feared being assaulted by the police themselves.
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If you have a closeted kid, he hears every one of those times you say something.
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Modern Love As a queer, closeted teenager, I had to learn about romance from the sidelines.
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There are no corny or soap-opera-ish coincidences in Kushner's work, really; one of the points he's trying to make is that we are all deeply connected, simply by being active spirits in the same cosmos, and by being closeted and not-closeted gay men.
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I&aposm so happy that they are talking about this, and this is not a closeted conversation.
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But unlike Darius, I was semi-closeted and scared — I had none of his pride and swagger.
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Gamma Mu was a Fort Lauderdale-based fraternity consisting of successful, older — and mostly closeted — gay men.
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Ian McKellen has apologized for suggesting that being closeted could prompt gay men to sexually abuse children.
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I went on with my life, and at that point in my life I was still closeted.
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One survivor is undocumented and closeted, and perhaps unable to connect to the family of his lover.
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Gay men and women increasingly feel no need to stay closeted, in or out of the workplace.
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Same-sex relationships are taboo in the conservative republic of Russia, leading many to live closeted lives.
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"I feel like, even closeted, Snape suffered from the prejudices of those around her," Ensnapingthesenses told me.
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Anyways, I did this not only for me but for anyone else who has struggled being closeted.
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I say "closeted" because he would pretend that he wasn't a drinker around our friends and families.
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I was a comfortably middle-class depressed and closeted queer kid who wanted to be an astronaut.
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Many queer folks were closeted, and of the few who were out, most of them were white.
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"Growing up closeted and playing contact sports broke down the traditional fraternal relationship between boys," Castañeda explains.
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Alex Danvers could have been the superhero I needed as an anxious, closeted, strong but vulnerable teen.
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Once I cleared that hurdle, it never really occurred to me to stay closeted to anyone else.
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Many gay men of his era have awful coming-out stories, involving years of closeted self-loathing.
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The cliché of the homicidal (usually closeted) homosexual — driven to kill by envy, lust, self-loathing, etc.
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And like many closeted children, she fears losing her tradition-minded family if she is ever outed.
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I'm 23 years old, a closeted trans woman and the managing editor of The American Bystander magazine.
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But its efforts to do so also perpetuate the unfortunate narrative of the closeted, suffering queer man.
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Intensely Catholic and — necessarily for a gay man of the time — closeted, Balenciaga was also a prude.
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MARRIAGE "While we have never been completely closeted, neither have we been totally 'out,' " Ms. Sorrell said.
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"Stuck Rubber Baby" (1995) is the story of Toland Polk, a closeted gay man in Clayfield, Ala.
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As a closeted, queer teenager, I was more concerned with making sure I didn't have a crush.
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"We are all introverted, almost closeted actors," Becki Tower, a directing animator on the new film, said.
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Michel confesses he is using Elio as a substitute for his own, somewhat estranged son, as someone with whom he can speak of his father, a closeted gay pianist: closeted both about his sexuality and about his piano-playing, which he undertook at night while the family was sleeping.
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Billie Jean, now 73 and an out lesbian, was married to a man and closeted at the time.
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It all started with a profile Tyrnauer wrote on the closeted gay TV star and producer Merv Griffin.
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You basically live your life closeted and the woods is the one place where you can be yourself.
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He told reporters that exposing his gun was a means of "providing a voice" to closeted Trump supporters.
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He was surprised, he said, at how many closeted gay men he's driven during the convention so far.
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Amid the hateful messages Hofer, now a photographer in Calgary, received, were messages of support from closeted Hutterites.
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Cohn, a closeted gay man and former aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy, had been an early Trump mentor.
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But that served my semi-closeted agenda just as surely as did the stars out for a headline.
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" His senior year he played Joe Pitt, the closeted Mormon lawyer, in both parts of "Angels in America.
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Many have posited that she is a closeted conservative, privately harboring the desire to Make America Great Again.
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This scene speaks to the immense pain I felt as a closeted trans woman for over a decade.
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I did a crazy year of being a closeted bond trader by day and AIDS activist by night.
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There's no amount of drunk or closeted that excuses or explains away assaulting a 14-year-old child.
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The more we can reach out to our closeted family, the better we can make Pride for everyone.
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He had no direct investment banking experience and was an outsider to the closeted world of Swiss finance.
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While gay men were never openly affectionate in the city, before the crackdown there were closeted communities there.
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The justices' decision could return American workplaces to the era of rotary phones, casual sexism, and closeted identity.
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Partly out of respect to the closeted era these bars represent, MUNCHIES is not identifying either by name.
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Gay kids, especially closeted ones, don't necessarily have the real-life opportunities for intimacy that straight kids do.
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I was closeted, and when I hit my late 20s, a voice in my head began nagging me.
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Kevin Spacey is not the first powerful closeted white man to strategically out himself when his power was imperiled.
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I read It Gets Better because that felt like a thing young closeted gay people were supposed to read.
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In order to avoid some of these persecutions, many LGBTQ workers simply opt to stay closeted while at work.
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So were white women voters actually closeted Trump supporters unwilling to admit to pollsters where their loyalties really lay?
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And yet one performance, by Brendan Dalton as a nervous, closeted young musician named Mihaly, is a soulful standout.
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As St Morris could not have known, writing a year before the movie's release, Esti is closeted and depressed.
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Was he a self-loathing closeted man somewhere on the queer spectrum who targeted people who personified his conflict?
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"We are worried about both those who are known to the community and those who are closeted," he said.
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Many LGBTQ entrepreneurs—even those based in LGBTQ-friendly locations—choose to remain closeted to potential investors when fundraising.
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I certainly didn't expect things to be perfect, or for the transition from closeted to "out" to be smooth.
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Today on Broadly, several straight women who fell for closeted gay guys are reviewing their exes' capabilities as lovers.
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The flaky landlady is a lesbian, like the Adams Fosters' moms, but she's closeted to her Asian-immigrant parents.
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Despite having a fiancée, David becomes an object of intense desire among an elite group of closeted young students.
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I was in Washington — why didn't I try to date some closeted politician and be his well-compensated secret?
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A journalist once wondered, half in jest, if my professional opinion was the result of being a closeted Chavista.
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The charges renewed accusations that the police put less effort into finding men who were poor, closeted or minorities.
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Both were hard-drinking gay men, though Williams was more open about his sexuality than the firmly closeted Inge.
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" The film is a coming-of-age tale about a closeted gay teen based on the novel "Simon vs.
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He wasn't exactly popular, and students spread rumors about his friendship with a closeted boy from his swim class.
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Church leaders know full well that the priesthood would be decimated if closeted gay men were exposed and expelled.
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Privately, his daughter-in-law Maggie—or "the Cat"—is in a sexless marriage with a closeted gay man.
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Maxine had a distant relationship with her mother, probably because her closeted mother quietly sensed her rebellious hot queer side.
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I behaved badly online when I was a teenager for like six months because of the pain of being closeted.
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I'd watch the closeted legal admin pretend every day that she wasn't a Hawaiian shirt-wearing version of K.D. Lang.
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And as for the closeted queer part, I never had a "Mom, Dad, I have something to tell you" moment.
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Graham is also unmarried and has long been dogged by vague, totally unsubstantiated accusations of being a closeted gay man.
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At this point Kenworthy, who won a silver medal at the Winter Games in Russia in 2014, was still closeted.
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Even if closeted politicians advocate for anti-LGBTQ policies, 60% of LGBTQ people think it's unacceptable to out them publicly.
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But Trump may well have a secret weapon that very few are talking about: an army of "closeted" Trump backers.
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Whereas The Handmaiden focuses on how sexuality can be weaponized, Spa Night explores how it can be sheltered and closeted.
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I hear from closeted trans teenagers on social media often, and I can sense how desperate and scared they are.
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Don't get me wrong, cancer sucks more balls than a closeted Republican senator, but it did fortuitously alter my fate.
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"In the past I was too closeted to come to the gay area," says Page, who came out in 2014.
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Russian state TV has claimed that Ukrainian protesters are plagued with sexual "psychosis", and that Ukrainian politicians are closeted lesbians.
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Hunter and Glaser collaborated on the 2015 documentary "Tab Hunter: Confidential" about the actor's career and closeted life in Hollywood.
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Goodman also heard from others who were in a similar situation to what he had been in: closeted and afraid.
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In conversations over the past six months, white liberals in Alabama again and again compared their experiences to being closeted.
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Many people read this as an insinuation that he is gay and closeted, and someone was threatening to out him.
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"I was absolutely closeted," said David Oscar, 86, who helped found the group with a social worker at the home.
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When I searched online for "gay chat," as a lonely, closeted child might, the first hit was #1 Chat Avenue.
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Mary described herself as "semi-closeted," and she said that people saying Jamil needed to categorize herself made her uneasy.
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Vollman's best posthumous pal is the campy, once closeted Roger Bevins III, now sporting multiple limbs like a Hindu god.
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Never mind that I was a closeted baby dyke or that I basically zoned out every time he touched me.
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After rehearsal, standing in the hall, I could half hear Stone closeted in a dressing room, reassuring Byrne and Cannavale.
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There's just an extreme focus on winning and nothing else really flies there — and for a closeted guy, that's great.
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He suspected that had he been born five or 210 years earlier, he would have run as a closeted candidate.
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He told me about the films he worked on, affairs he'd had with closeted actors, and secret Hollywood sex parties.
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GOREY: The Secret Lives of Edward Gorey presents its subject as a closeted, mostly rebuffed gay man resigned to his solitude.
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Mr Guadagnino was astute to choose a story of a forbidden, closeted relationship, a "love that dare not speak its name".
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Nomi's closeted bisexuality, the twins' unbearable pressure, and Vivek's strained relationship with his dad help her realize that she's not alone.
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Occupation: Land Use PlannerIndustry: Municipal GovernmentAge: 39Location: Denver, COSalary: $63,903Paycheck (Biweekly): $1,606.18Gender: Transgender FTM (closeted, pre-HRT) Monthly ExpensesHousing Costs: $2,461.
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There's the girl I matched with on four different apps while we were both too closeted to make the first move.
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In a new Rolling Stone cover story, the 20 year-old heartthrob singer talked about the constant speculation he is closeted.
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I was starting to realize that, this whole time, I had been in a relationship with a semi-functional, closeted alcoholic.
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Not too long ago, I was a 13-year-old closeted queer girl, naive to what dangers existed in the world.
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The show featured a whip-wielding nun, carnival pinheads, a closeted-lesbian investigative journalist, and a serial killer with Holocaust lampshades.
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The gay Jewish matador from Brooklyn: Sidney Franklin was "hiding in plain sight" as a closeted bullfighter in a macho sport.
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On TV, our critic loves the Amazon mini-series "A Very English Scandal," starring Hugh Grant as a closeted British politician.
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GLENN THRUSH: And I knew two or three openly gay aides who worked in the state legislature and they were closeted.
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Back then — the 1970s — gay stereotypes went unchallenged, gay jokes drew hearty laughter and exponentially more Americans were closeted than out.
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It's the chronicle of a closeted gay man's fate in a hostile environment and also, contrapuntally, of an unscrupulous fixer's progress.
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A summer romance with the still closeted Grace, a vacationer from a loving home with a stable school life, has helped.
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Sargent and Henry James are often paired as comrades, as closeted gay men, as great portraitists and as each other's subjects.
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In Barrow's case, that includes a somewhat deeper dive into what it meant to be gay and closeted in this era.
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He also persecuted men in the State Department who were suspected of being gay, despite being a closeted gay man himself.
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He accused the victims of being closeted gay men lying about the assaults, according to British news accounts of the trial.
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In an era when many individuals were closeted, these places offered the chance to be oneself, in a variety of flavors.
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Who else could've played Marilyn Miglin, the wife of Cunanan's third victim and allegedly closeted Chicago real estate magnate Lee Miglin?
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He believes there issue is that he's a proud gay man, rather than some closeted sodomite who winds up married with children.
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The Disney star, 27, recalled to Gay Times magazine about a time when he felt the industry pressured him to stay closeted.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. Growing up as a closeted gay man in a working class Yorkshire village wasn't easy.
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Though he lives openly with his partner in New York, he remains closeted to most of his family and friends back home.
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But the thing is the confusion of the left is being cynically gamed by people who are actually none-too-closeted theocrats.
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Robinson plays Simon Spier, a closeted high school senior on the brink of coming out to his family, friends, and school peers.
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The movie focuses on an 11-year-old boy and his unlikely correspondence with a closeted actor that is contorted into scandal.
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As a sex worker, with a brand to maintain for my income and under threat of state violence, I'm closeted both ways.
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The young girl wanted to be true to herself, but also had a strong desire to reach closeted members of her congregation.
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But even closeted inside the confines of the Hamburg Messe conference hall, Trump is unlikely to find much agreement on his agenda.
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Did anything in your findings point to the effect being closeted at work has on one's mental health or quality of life?
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Louis—Prior's nebbishy boyfriend, a quasi avatar of Kushner—is crying over a sink when he meets Joe, a closeted Mormon lawyer.
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I was still very closeted and thought it would be a good idea to create a life as an openly queer human.
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The past in question is that of Hollywood's Golden Age, and the story is that of formerly-closeted movie star Tab Hunter.
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But there are also pockets of younger audience members, ones who are decades removed from the closeted, tortured era portrayed on stage.
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Sharon is engaged to a closeted African-American Lutheran (Gary Anthony Williams) whose mere existence the movie seems to regard as humorous.
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Even though Gorey was "securely closeted at Harvard," Dery writes, most of his college friends were gay and believed he was too.
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An F.B.I. agent insists that their target is an expert predator targeting wealthier, closeted older gay men and unlikely to frequent clubs.
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" In college, she writes, "I lived like a half-closeted C.E.O., quietly but unswervingly focused on achievement, bent on checking every box.
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Self-loathing abounds, as "Assassination" repeatedly depicts the psychological effects of internalized homophobia and the miserable spiritual contortions required to stay closeted.
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Hailing from backgrounds wealthy and working class, closeted and out, coastal and country, they seem to share a talent for unrequited love.
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Gay kids, especially closeted ones, don't necessarily have the opportunities for intimacy that straight kids do: classroom Valentines and first prom dates.
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Barney, the town wino, is funny because he's a drunkard, he explains; Smithers, Mr. Burns's sycophantic assistant, is funny because he's closeted.
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In the mid-2000s, she wrote that he was a closeted gay man whose marriage to a woman gave him political cover.
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At this novel's climax, Tuppence, closeted with an unlikely killer, has an epiphany: She realizes, simply and profoundly, that she is old.
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For many listeners, it was gut-wrenching to learn that Mr. McLemore was most likely struggling with being a closeted gay man.
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To the author, the prison is more than a setting, it's also a powerful symbol for the closeted life she once led.
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He retired in 2011, which is when he had suicidal thoughts and became addicted to painkillers because he was closeted, he said.
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The caller's claim that Tom was not her real father gets some support from the revelation that he is a closeted homosexual.
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A closeted homosexual, he became an architect of the Lavender Scare, which led to the ban on gays in the federal government.
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He says it depends—it's one thing to be closeted and another to be a gay man who left, succeeded, and made money.
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Each of the men described a pattern in which Spacey played his closeted status against their desire to tell others of his actions.
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Being closeted has for him enabled him to use this privacy claim as a shield against anybody looking closely at his actual behavior.
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Meanwhile, Norwood was caricatured in political circles as a closeted Republican, a racist being used as a tool of the black political elite.
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While there's still a lot to be said, recent headlines prove mental illness is less of a closeted topic now than ever before.
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As a closeted gay teen, it was the one space where I found a group of friends I could be totally open with.
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As New York Magazine reported in 2012, there was speculation by multiple people that Crist was closeted — but Reid's "jokes" are especially offensive.
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The plot — if you can call it that — involves shadowy figures, a closeted romance between Waluigi and Wario, and hundreds of empty wallets.
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If Mateen was closeted, out of fear, he made a little more of the world he feared when he opened fire that day.
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The backroom of Wicked Grounds is now crowded with men in various states of cross-dress, the majority of whom are extremely closeted.
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Every queer, kinky, or non-monogamous person who is closeted in any part of their life will have to close their accounts too.
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"Every fearful, closeted kid I knew growing up in suburban Illinois had one thing in common: ignorant, blindly adherent Republican parents," he writes.
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" The book follows Simon, a closeted high schooler who begins an online romance with another student, who goes by the anonymous name "Blue.
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These appointments send a direct message to closeted and opened white supremacist that they are symbolically and substantively represented at 16000 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Does he fear that were your fraud to be uncovered, same-sex couples would come under suspicion of being closeted, discount-demanding straights?
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For three years he lived as a closeted atheist, not even telling his wife, all while serving as a deacon in their church.
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I wish I'd spent all of my closeted years of self-hatred turning into a perfect simulation of a masculine, muscular straight guy.
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It will encourage a return to practices that rooted out closeted service people, because once transgender service becomes illegal, their silence becomes criminal.
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"It was interesting to me that I was more relatable when I was closeted and dishonest than when I came out," she said.
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Depending on the person you're listening to, he was either a closeted homosexual lashing out, or a religious fanatic inspired by ISIS propaganda.
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A closeted gay high schooler finds solace and, eventually, love in an anonymous email buddy — until a blackmailer stumbles on the secret correspondence.
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That's true — many L.G.B.T. Americans were closeted at the time, and they faced severe consequences for standing up for their equality in public.
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Xavier Dolan's muddled tale of a closeted celebrity and his much younger fan is shackled by an awkward structure and a fragmented vision.
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Closeted in his third-floor White House residence, he avoided opportunities to comment on the proceedings occurring two miles away on Capitol Hill.
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" My Relationship Guru Is a 19523-Year-Old Girl "As a queer, closeted teenager, I had to learn about romance from the sidelines.
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It's also important to note that at no point do we suggest that our Sulu was ever closeted, why would he need to be?
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In the US, the group became ostracized and mocked as science debunked its practices and high-profile figures were exposed as closeted gay hypocrites.
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He spent months closeted with his guitar in a bedroom of a sister's house, obsessively stripping down and rebuilding his way of playing it.
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"I would say that the majority of [disabled] people really would love to talk about it but they're used to being closeted," Jameson explains.
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"He was a gay man like Freddie [Mercury] and they were both closeted about their sexuality, so they became very good friends," Leech said.
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Love, Simon tells the heartwarming coming-out-story of a closeted high school senior named Simon Spier, played by 22-year-old Nick Robinson.
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But the sappy part of me would like to believe that crazy, closeted Matt is gone, and in his place is someone far happier.
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Naz (Kerwin Johnson Jr.) and Maalik (Curtiss Cook Jr.) are closeted and Muslim, and especially for Naz, the Islamic taboo against homosexuality weighs heavily.
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In a production note, the director explains that the movie was inspired by his conversations with a closeted Muslim graduate student from Bed-Stuy.
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Importantly, Trevante Rhodes, who plays adult Chiron, didn't meet the playwright until after filming, and based his portrayal of masculinity on a closeted friend.
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Call us late to the game, but we've suddenly come to the realization that Queen Elizabeth II, is, maybe, a closeted Fashion Person™?
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"To be a powerful, closeted gay man in those times was a very tough place to be," Bridges tells PEOPLE in this week's issue.
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There's Karl's landlord, a sleazy and closeted guy who starts a romance with Freddie Mercury after traveling back to a Queen show in 1979.
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We have intercourse with heterosexual men—which I always say are closeted gays—and we would never have a muxe as a partner. Ever.
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Often they share the commonality of wanting a space to cultivate gender expression in a way that is secretive, as they are often closeted.
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What is meant to be a cultural hallmark of American adolescence became a panic-attack-inducing ordeal for a closeted trans girl like me.
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What would you say to the closeted trans teens whose parents are not accepting to get them through the next day, week, month, year?
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She is the first female CEO in Lloyd's of London's 328-year history, and doesn't want her fellow colleagues to be closeted at work.
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Unfortunately, many choose the latter option: a 2014 report found than 53 percent of LGBT workers are mostly or entirely closeted in the workplace.
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Laverne Cox is super impressed Lil Nas X has come out, and she says other closeted gay hip-hop stars should take his cue.
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In April, he received a message from a closeted Irish teenager who described the relentless bullying he experienced at his Catholic all-boys school.
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In his acceptance speech, Stewart recognized Locke's struggles as a closeted gay man, noting that he created a community of artists as his family.
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Critics accused him of hypocrisy in what has almost become a cliche of the closeted Republican politician who voted and postured against LGBTQ rights.
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" The main motivation behind opening Out was her brother, Joey, who was "a closeted gay man for the first 24 years of his life.
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Conservatives attacked the President as soft on crime, a closeted socialist whose war on poverty only emboldened black militants, while encouraging riots and mayhem.
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But when the plot fixates on suburban angst, Behrman risks staleness with well-worn tropes like the closeted jock or the homophobic school bully.
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By showing photographs that question the closeted experience along the side of a fence, Tran's installation amplifies the sense of outsiderness his story conveys.
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The masculine, closeted gay man is someone who will have hot yet shameful sex with you under the guise of a bro-y friendship.
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As the Finnish army loses ground, he finds a friend in another closeted officer, a commander (Taisto Oksanen) whose uniform prominently features a swastika.
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Castillo played Richie Ventura, the tough, closeted neighborhood barber who was the unconventional on-and-off love interest for main character Patrick (Jonathan Groff).
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Some of those people are in church, some of them are out, a lot of them are closeted because they don't feel safe being out.
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Flanked by multiple security guards, Kardashian and her family on Thursday left their Manhattan apartment, where they have been closeted since she returned from Paris.
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John primarily wanted the conversation off the record in order to protect a closeted fellow resident of S-Town with whom he'd had a relationship.
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There's also a metaphor floating around involving the world of espionage and the world of the closeted gay man, both based on lies and deception.
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When a politician promotes anti-LGBTQ+ policies, it's common to hear a chorus of unoriginal, offensive jokes that he or she surely must be closeted.
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" Topics so far include, "How Do I Avoid Men Who Are 'Experimenting,' But Still Closeted?" and "My Friend and I Matched With the Same Guy.
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What's easier is to be a closeted, gay Republican—and you can count them among those who have worked the hardest to demonize LGBTQ Americans.
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Kenworthy was closeted when he competed at the Russia Olympics in 2014, but came out in October 2015 on the cover of ESPN the Magazine.
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In fact, it's teeming with so much hope that it could, in essence, help closeted kids face the prospect of embracing their queer selves instead.
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Many closeted gays participated in individual sports to avoid the discomfort of team-sport culture, and the Olympics is the biggest showcase of individual sports.
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Like when I was going to Tokyo to do press years ago, I wouldn't be going to the gay district because I was very closeted.
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But he canoodles on the side with Chris (Thomas E. Sullivan), a randy, somewhat boozy college student who gently needles Ben about his closeted status.
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As a closeted misgendered teen, she found herself feigning masculinity and hopping between friendship groups during her adolescence — jocks and cool kids; musos and nerds.
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The vast majority of Fortune 500s were nowhere to be seen, their still-closeted employees hiding from the cameras lest they be outed and fired.
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As gay men, there's still an expectation that we might not have kids, or if we do that we must have been closeted or married.
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The most clichéd, in a close race, features Eric Dane as a fiercely closeted father who's had a debilitating influence on his football-star son.
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It's really not all that different from the many of us who grow up awkwardly, often confusing our own closeted obsessions for permits of ownership.
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When they would find a couple, they shined flashlights on them and rousted the men — who were often closeted, married or both — from the park.
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These men were usually married and closeted, and this vigilante group taunted and shamed these men who were meeting to fulfill a basic human need.
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In the January 20043 issue of The Face, a British style magazine, there was an anonymous letter from a gay closeted 22004-year-old schoolboy.
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At the story's core is a pair of couples — one gay, one straight/closeted — trying to negotiate the rocky terrain of the early AIDS epidemic.
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"Tomorrow there is a group of self-proclaimed and closeted socialists running against Donald Trump," Ms. Guilfoyle said, which prompted loud booing from the crowd.
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I was still deeply closeted and spent my time wondering how to get a boyfriend and watching the VlogBrothers and early makeup gurus (JuicyStar07, anyone?).
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His father, a half-closeted homosexual, was cruel to Whittaker; his mother was a loving but deeply neurotic woman; his brother was a future suicide.
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Woodrugh could have been defined purely by his issues — post-traumatic stress, closeted homosexuality, a false accusation — but Kitsch finds subtlety in his body language.
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Like many closeted teenage boys, I sought out anything I could to better understand the life that was possible for a gay person like me.
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"Being closeted has for him enabled him to use this privacy claim as a shield against anybody looking closely at his actual behavior," he said.
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Hawkins's character is a mute woman, Jenkins's is a closeted gay man, Spencer's is a black woman, and the fish-man is, well, a fish-man.
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It's not just classic rock that has become the hot new Hollywood intellectual property trend in the past few years — it's once-closeted gay men's stories.
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Alihan said despite many gay men and women staying closeted in the majority-Muslim region, it was once possible to live a good life inside Chechnya.
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Perhaps he was closeted, people said, or maybe he was just so foggy from hours of drinking that he didn't notice the shades on his face.
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His next victim was Lee Miglin, a married millionaire Chicago real estate developer, whom it was speculated he might have met earlier through closeted gay circles.
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Well, Insatiable, partially inspired by formerly closeted famed Alabama pageant coach Bill Alverson (who is now happily married to a man), has certainly gotten people talking.
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It amazes me in this day and age that it's still major news for an actor to come out, and that there are still closeted actors.
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Tab, known for his surfer boy looks and roles in "Damn Yankees" and "The Burning Hills," was also famous for remaining closeted during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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Bechdel is unflinching about exposing her closeted father's abuse of underage boys; the pressure he experiences to make a conventional marriage is framed as no excuse.
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Jeff Rohrer is opening up about his journey from closeted professional athlete, to coming out — to becoming the first NFL player in a same-sex marriage.
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In retrospect, Rebein says he realized 2007 meant something to him because he lived through it in middle school as a Perez Hilton–reading closeted homosexual.
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In Abigail Zealey Bess's tone-perfect production, Rolfe (Logan Sutherland) is gay and closeted, unable to stay away from the sweet, teasing Johan (Alex J. Gould).
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Dear Lydia, Growing up in an extremely sheltered and closeted religious atmosphere left me little to no means of growth in many areas of my life.
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During the Cold War, the Canadian government was preoccupied with the never-proven risk that Russia could blackmail closeted homosexual government workers and armed forces personnel.
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Haddish's A'Lelia is a woman trapped in a loveless marriage -- a closeted lesbian who is tirelessly trying (and failing) to win her mother's acceptance and love.
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Mr. Trump stayed largely out of sight in the Shangri-La Hotel, where he had been closeted with aides since landing in Singapore on Sunday evening.
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"If he was here right now accepting this award, he wouldn't have family with him, as a gay man who lived a closeted life," he said.
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According to the report, the authorities set to finding and arresting closeted gay men, partly by posing as men looking for dates on social networking sites.
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Ms. Gough says her performance as Harper is different as well, partly because of the change of actors who play her husband, Joe, a closeted lawyer.
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Watching a black man lead our country infuriated the outwardly and closeted racists, with Obama receiving more death threats than any other modern president to date.
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Growing Up Gay to a Glam Rock Soundtrack Freddie Mercury, David Bowie and Alice Cooper send signals to a semi-closeted gay teen in the '70s.
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But even as the man flirted he confided that he was deeply closeted and, in fact, saw his same-sex attractions as a kind of affliction.
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The story of Ned's public efforts is mirrored in his private effort to save his lover, Felix, a closeted New York Times writer dying of AIDS.
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When I was a closeted transgender woman, sometimes I'd only make it part way through a workday before my mental state broke down under the pressure.
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Too bad Wilder was not only (believed to be) an extremely closeted gay man, but he also published the play a good 30 years before Stonewall.
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The central metaphor of the game — J.J.'s constant, deliberate self-mutilation —is a lens that reveals the pain she has experienced as a closeted trans woman.
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Those kinds of questions, though, ignore another important point about Long and sex: The way he talked about homosexuality was destructive, whether or not he was closeted.
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People will try to tell you that cruising is a thing of the past, but especially for closeted and "discreet" gay men, the practice has never died.
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Well, closeted, but he definitely propositions Kevin in the bathroom for a little heavy petting that escalates into a late-night meet-up down at Sweetwater River.
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Bloggers talk a lot about offering support, both to the supposedly queer-but-closeted stars themselves and to the fans who see themselves reflected in their lives.
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That's huge on a show like 13 Reasons Why, on which a deeply closeted gay woman like Courtney could have easily found her way into disaster territory.
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Simon, played by Nick Robinson (he was the dick-ish older brother in Jurassic World), is closeted and, like, thinking about stuff, as 19353-year-olds do.
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As a possibly-closeted member of an ultra-conservative Catholic family, the idea of acting out an LGBTQ+ screen on-stage throws Simon into an emotional tailspin.
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From her brief biography, nothing about Vera screams "spy:" Before being recruited, Vera's a depressed, closeted lesbian who spent her childhood in and out of detention centers.
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In A Heartbeat follows a closeted red-headed teen named Sherwin whose heart literally pops out of his chest and chases after his classmate and crush, Jonathan.
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By the language of the ads, which often mention terms like "discrete" or "married," it's safe to assume the politicos who post and respond are often closeted.
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Jonathan also addresses rumors that Aaron was gay or bisexual, which emerged after his death, fueling speculation that among other demons Aaron was fearfully — even aggressively — closeted.
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The military, at the time, rationalized that any closeted person with access to military intelligence could be blackmailed by the Soviet government into handing over classified information.
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One was Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" — whose subtitle alone, "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," is enough to make a closeted boy nervous around his classmates.
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Broadway-Mack said she didn't reflect too much on what a closeted relationship under military law would be like until Heather got orders to relocate in 2001.
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Gay and deeply closeted, Mr. Blass took particular delight in the fact that social rags had begun to refer to Ms. Griscom as his wife, Mrs. Blass.
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Over the next two hours, Roxy artfully painted the cheeks of his 37-year-old companion, who was closeted with a wife and two kids at home.
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I know Lee Miglan, a successful but closeted elderly man who, in one scene, tearfully prays at an alter, telling Jesus he "tried" not to be gay.
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He addresses issues of homosexuality as an often repressed community while reflecting on his own experiences growing up as a closeted gay man in a Catholic household.
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Most contemporary scholars agree that Wood suffered an unhappy marriage because he was a closeted gay man, though no such words were uttered in Depression-era America.
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Dirk Bogarde stars as a married barrister and closeted gay man in London who risks his reputation to reveal an extortion plot against himself and other homosexuals.
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Closeted people who aren't yet plugged into the community are inundated with the so-called right and wrong ways to express their gender identity and sexual orientation.
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Sometimes the jokes poke at celebrities who are rumored to be closeted; he's proud of a recent segment that mocks Eddie Murphy's early-career anti-gay bigotry.
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Later, disappointed by the way Hasids treat queer people (many of whom resort to suicide), she created a blog for anonymous interviews with closeted ultra-Orthodox Jews.
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He cited the "struggle" of being a black man in the US, as well as his desired profession, acting, as two reasons he stayed closeted for so long.
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Jackson famously played Alpa Chino in the 2008 Ben Stiller flick -- a closeted actor who accidentally revealed feelings for a guy named "Lance" ... it was a hilarious scene.
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" ("Centipede" is slang for an online Trump supporter.) "I've been deeply closeted thus far due to the severe personal and professional repercussions of not beating the progressive drum.
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For one thing, a lot of the players look like the kinds of hot mean girls with ponytails who both intimidated and titillated me in my closeted youth.
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Many apostates are left closeted, afraid to put at risk their relationships with their parents, on whom they may still depend, or with their siblings and their friends.
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By tradition, one Cabinet secretary is closeted away at a secure, undisclosed location to ensure continuity of government in case disaster strikes while government leaders attend the speech.
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At the time of her passing, I was a closeted teenager constantly cornered by masculine ideals of my peers, lacking the confidence needed to be my true self.
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She breaks up with her closeted Christian boyfriend, attempts to have a threesome, and reluctantly falls in love with Connor, an unemployed poet who lives on her estate.
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McBride), a Southerner obsessed with proving his manhood, and Lee Russell (Walton Goggins), a possibly closeted, smooth-talking dandy — who team up to take down their new principal.
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However, currency markets were closeted in a tight range in a holiday shortened week in the United States and in the absence of any major data this week.
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For an artist with ambitions for big-time success in a still-closeted art world, this was an unusual direction to take, and Mapplethorpe took it even further.
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As we've been telling each other, I wish I could say it was a surprise, but for the last several months, we've seen so many closeted Trump supporters.
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She also points out that his closeted abstractions were the photographs he exhibited, while in his private collection he kept male nudes and portraits of same-sex lovers.
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Before she settled into my room, where she'd be staying, I sneaked in and hid my diary, fearing she would read the only proof of my closeted gayness.
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The protagonist (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a closeted man who, in his desperate bid for normalcy, marries, joins the Fascist Party and agrees to assassinate a former professor.
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It means looking through a pre-Stonewall lens, when many gay men and women led closeted lives and their sexuality didn't necessarily figure in their expressed personal politics.
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They don't seem very interested in exploring, beyond Hallmark card sentiment, the impact of a young Judy Garland having been fixated (in this telling) on a closeted father.
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"Fun Home," by Alison Bechdel, is about Ms. Bechdel's life in rural Pennsylvania, her coming-out process, her obsessive-compulsive disorder and her relationship with her closeted father.
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Sure, there was Dan Savage, whose advice gave hope and vision to closeted folks across the country, and Deborah Betts, the first openly gay federal judge to be appointed.
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Conservatives simultaneously charged her with claiming that Graham is being blackmailed over his closeted sexuality (she did not) while pressuring establishment Democrats to disavow her past comments on Israel.
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As a closeted gay teen in Oklahoma, reading their advice to other LGBTQ+ kids made me feel less isolated, even if their questions had nothing to do with me.
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But for Scheinman to know for sure that he wasn't backing a closeted lunatic, he made two reference calls on Yuan, including one on his drive to the meeting.
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A different version of this story would have him simply closeted and learning something new about himself and drifting through life unhappily because he's missing something he can't name.
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Thus the once-closeted Bierdz was able to reprise his role, coming out in Hollywood at the same time his fictional character was on the highly-rated daytime soap.
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In the fourth episode, Colin Farrell's racist, corrupt-cop character Ray takes Taylor Kitsch's closeted, war-criminal character Paul around in a truck, peer pressuring him to drink whiskey.
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"I went from coming out of the closet, feeling better about it, having friends who were gay, to an environment where I had to be closeted again," he said.
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But it's only this year that the issue of high-frequency trading (HFT) has burst into acrimonious bloom in the closeted world that is the London Metal Exchange (LME).
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I believe that people remain closeted because they're afraid of losing opportunities, which is a fancy way of saying they don't want their identity to mess with their money.
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It's recognizable as Macbeth, but the antihero this time is a bisexual teenager named Maria, nudged along the path toward success and then disaster by her closeted girlfriend Lily.
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"He's worse than a closeted racist: he's a propagator of despicable garbage that does real damage to the culture around this industry," he wrote in a series of tweets.
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Considering that Gianni was for all intents and purposes out in the 90s, it's hard to imagine Donatella begging him to stay closeted for the sake of the business.
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Actors enact narratives—cheating lovers fight, closeted gay soldiers meet and then part, a family eats dinner—that are clichéd versions of the Second World War movies that mattered.
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Of course, we may never really know exactly what Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin cooked up between them in the two hours they spent closeted alone with only interpreters.
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Sad and lonely, Elisa's support system includes her caring co-worker (Octavia Spencer) and gay neighbor (Richard Jenkins), dealing with his own difficulties finding love in this closeted era.
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Closeted on a Sicilian cliffside with his G7 counterparts, Trump declined to sign on to their determination on climate change -- a go-it-alone stance that's persisted in Asia.
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Like closeted homosexuals, they frequently disguise their identities and play along with the majority—at least until they get tenure, when they're more likely to express their true selves.
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In the episode, Reed defends his choice to air off-the-record information about McLemore and the alleged identity of another closeted, married man who still lives in Woodstock.
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The parochialism that governed the Colombia I knew meant that as a closeted gay boy, I felt alienated from the patriotism uncritically championed by so many of my peers.
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My first week of college, when I was still mostly closeted, I approached a girl on my freshman floor to tell her she looked like a young Karen Walker.
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Some 190 bishops, priests and other church figures spent the day closeted in St. Sophia's Cathedral in downtown Kiev to elect the newly unified Ukrainian church's head, Metropolitan Epiphanius.
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For us, the barriers we face aren't systematic as much as they are social; I am currently closeted from the majority of my extended family, as is my partner.
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If Kenworthy had to choose between winning a medal while leading a closeted existence or failing to grace the podium while living an authentic life, it wouldn't be close.
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Mr. Trump stayed largely out of sight in the heavily guarded Shangri-La Hotel, where he has mostly been closeted with aides since landing in Singapore on Sunday evening.
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"It's a misconception I never want to correct, making me feel semi-closeted, because the idea of announcing these things that aren't necessarily visible is hard," Marshall told me.
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In writing "The Inheritance," I wanted to take my favorite novel and retell it in a way that its closeted author never felt free to do in his lifetime.
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In phone call after phone call, we hear Hernandez mocking queer people, distancing himself from femme-presenting men, and deploying what's clearly framed by Killer Inside as closeted denial.
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Tegan and Sara cede center stage and give up their mics to Sara and Tegan Quin: bored, closeted, talented teens with plenty to scream and cry and whisper about.
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Over crème brûlée and Egyptian red wine, I chatted with a towering bearded man who had spent four years as a closeted member of a Salafist sect in Alexandria.
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Through interviews and archival footage, the film reframes Haywood's life as the story of a closeted gay man in the hyper-macho world of late-20th-century auto racing.
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"Of course Love, Simon is a glossed-over version of what being closeted is really like," says Ryan Schocket, a 24-year-old writer who lives in New Jersey.
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The heartwarming movie about a closeted gay teen struggling in high school stars Nick Robinson, a 22-year-old actor with a surprising amount of titles already under his belt.
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We learn pretty quickly that Helen is a closeted racist, an "alt-white," who drops terms like "you people" and "urban" in place of "Black" like both are filthy words.
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Whether it's somebody who is gay and closeted and struggling with shame, or it's someone whose partner has a particular kink and they're like, 'Can't you just not do that?
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Mart Crowley's groundbreaking 1968 play The Boys in the Band has polarized audiences over the years for its depiction of self-loathing in the closeted gay community of the 1960s.
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Predictably, many welcomed the intervention while others were horrified, and some complained that it would have been more liberating had Rowling not kept Dumbledore closeted until after publication was complete.
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We were Mormons and Baptists, Protestants who knew the Anglican hymns, Catholics who could translate the Latin, closeted baritones who were planning careers in music or the church or both.
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As "Versace" moves backward in time, it attempts to draw out those victims' lives — and in the case of Miglin's husband and Madson, their closeted sexuality is a unifying theme.
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He came into office versed in data and analysis, and as a closeted gay man who kept his sexuality secret from the public for his first four years in office.
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Mr. Jenkins plays Giles, a closeted artist and Elisa's close friend, whose own lovelorn travails (like an unrequited crush on a pie-shop worker) are a subplot of the film.
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Gedney, in addition to being a deeply closeted gay man for most of his life, was also an unhappy lifelong isolate who connected to the world primarily through his lens.
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His father was a world-traveling former Navy man with a big appetite who got into the advertising game and lived much of his life as a closeted gay man.
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Did I ever imagine, during my anxious, closeted childhood, that I'd live long enough to see a movie like "Moonlight," Barry Jenkins's brilliant, achingly alive new work about black queerness?
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"The American People" is thus a kind of raid and kidnapping, marching into the country's past to out its closeted celebrities and bringing them back to be traded for ransom.
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There's also a personal side to the story: not only was Gründgens Mann's one-time collaborator, he was also his former brother-in-law (awkward!) and a fellow closeted homosexual.
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They trace the hidden hand of "Big Pharma" spreading disease for profit and claim that billionaires like Bill Gates are closeted eugenicists seeking to address overpopulation by promoting poisoned childhood vaccines.
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They're all the same, really, just odd spaces that some men—especially closeted men—carve out and claim for themselves in their hunger for contact, affection, or even just plain sex.
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At the end of Relatable, Ellen talks about her struggles with being closeted and her decision to come out, which she described as one of the hardest parts of her life.
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But that assumption causes problems for closeted queer kids, because it can stop them from finding the resources they need to explore their sexualities and connect to a greater LGBTQ+ community.
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In December, the same account shared posts in which Ms. Reid taunted Charlie Crist, the Democratic former Florida governor, as a closeted gay man whose heterosexual marriage was a political front.
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As such, firearm owners and advocates who do reside in the area are what he calls "closeted gun people," but he says their hold on their guns will only grow stronger.
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I used to live in Long Beach, way, way back, and I was kind of a closeted gay boy, because I was employed and working under a government military defense contract.
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As Joe, the closeted gay Mormon, Christophe Montenez is oblivious to his own pain and that of others, including his wife, Harper (Jennifer Decker, who veers between childlike torpor and lucidity).
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The show, which stars Julie Klausner as Julie Kessler and Billy Eichner as Billy Epstein, features a trove of jokes pertaining Spacey, from the actor liking younger men, to being closeted.
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There is a glancing attempt in this episode to tie Jeffrey's struggle with being closeted to Gianni Versace's, as both prepare for starkly different interviews in which they tell the truth.
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The story of two closeted cowboys, played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, was nominated for eight Academy Awards, but won three: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score.
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Add to that two missing children, a closeted husband (played by Stephan Kampwirth), a couple of drug dealers, and a scary cave that moans, and you've already got a full docket.
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Barrett once counseled with a closeted gay man who had recurring dreams where he murdered an unknown person and felt a tremendous amount of guilt when trying to hide the body.
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The stated purpose of the ban was Ottawa's fear that the Soviets could blackmail closeted gay and lesbian public servants for sensitive government information, even if that fear ultimately proved unfounded.
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Someone like [former RNC chair] Ken Mehlman can come out and say he's sorry for what he's done only because he doesn't want the power that comes with being closeted anymore.
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Yes, there are still plenty of closeted teenagers and plenty of parents as clueless as the two O'Neals, but in 2016 that no longer seems like an occasion for lowbrow laughs.
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According to Mark and Derek there are plenty of heterosexual guys out there doing it, too—married and closeted, in denial, or straight-identifying and simply in search of some fun.
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Moana) to a closeted religious teen (Ted Sutherland) grappling with playing a gay role to a trans teen (Ellie Desautels) learning how to navigate the world as Michael instead of Margaret.
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After transportation, a car's most vital societal function is arguably giving everyone from horny teens to closeted gays to unfaithful spouses a relatively safe place to do it outside the bedroom.
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The experience of reading was private and intimate, with material wrapped in covers or mailing envelopes, making lesbian imagery and literature accessible to closeted women or those without a queer community.
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Back then, inmates would post personal ads in gay magazines, strike up a sexy snail-mail correspondence with men who responded, and then extort the ones who admitted they were closeted.
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Then as now, the play concerns Prior Walter, who is diagnosed with AIDS in 1985, and whose boyfriend Louis promptly abandons him to take up with a closeted gay Mormon Reaganite.
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Elsewhere in the show, a sequence of photos, taken in Saigon in the 1960s by Joseph Carrier, a closeted gay American counterintelligence strategist, includes images of pairs of soldiers holding hands.
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As in real life, he is gay, deeply closeted, dying of AIDS—which, even in his final months, he insists to the public is liver cancer—and accused of rampant ethical violations.
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Yes, there were times that Lou made people feel uncomfortable and acted creepy, and as I say in the documentary, I suspected that Lou may have been closeted and hiding his sexuality.
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In Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992), the closeted idol, then a recent casualty of the still-raging AIDS crisis which had also claimed some of Rappaport's collaborators, is played by two performers.
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Whenever I talk to younger queer people about how little LGBT representation there was in movies and on TV when I was a closeted teenager in the '290s, I end up yelling.
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They provide this hardened coming-of-age tale some heart, mostly in the form of characters like Grizz, a closeted jock in charge of leading a hunting party to find more land.
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Cardinal Rubén Salazar Gómez of Bogota said the damage was home-grown, in large part because bishops had closeted themselves in a clerical mentality and some thought they could act with impunity.
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I don't believe this is because I'm a closeted crazed killer, though parents and conservative family action groups are certainly going to have a heyday discussing the impact of violent VR games.
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These athletes face a dizzying, seemingly impossible choice: disregard their gender identity—arguably an unhealthy and wholly unacceptable option given the negative effects of remaining closeted—or sacrifice their love of sports.
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That same year, federal agents snared a gay, closeted antiwar organizer named David Mixner in a "honey trap," and threatened to release photographs of his assignation unless he ratted out his comrades.
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For LGBTQ people, these family obligations ratchet up the pressure to remain closeted—and it goes some way to explain why gay men like Cheng Jiansheng feel compelled to marry heterosexual women.
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I was a pretty clueless, deeply closeted kid so maybe people could sense I was struggling with stuff, too, and was a safe zone for anything outside the norm at the time.
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And she looks back at Elizabeth Bishop, already a senior figure in Rich's poetic youth, a closeted lesbian who represented a tradition — "diffuse, elusive, often cryptic" — that Rich was working to escape.
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" And, B argues, most older Russians get their information on state-sponsored TV. After all, "most [LGBTQ] people are closeted, so people don't really know anything about them [outside of media perceptions].
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Blending social science and cultural analysis with his experiences ministering to closeted gay men, Mr. Wood made a powerful appeal for the full acceptance of gay people by churches and American society.
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Instead of being taken to see her husband she was closeted in a room with a prosecutor and four intelligence agents from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and interrogated for several hours.
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Well frankly, I wanted closeted people to be able to come to the party and not feel like there's going to be some photo of them up for their family to see.
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But whereas the mainstream gay pop stars of a generation ago, like Boy George and George Michael, began their careers closeted, Mr. Sivan has been out since before the beginning of his.
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In 2000, I was 13 years old and closeted, even to myself, a conservative evangelical adolescent who was just starting to settle into the Wisconsin town my family had recently moved to.
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If you don't like the story of faithless Louis leaving his lover, Prior, who develops AIDS, there's the one about the closeted lawyer (and Trump fixer) Roy Cohn, denying the disease outright.
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As recounted in an oral history of the genre by Adam Rathe for OUT magazine, queers, both closeted and out, were inextricable to the rise of formative punk in the late 1970s.
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I'm sure some closeted kid out there who loves subscription-based streaming services and made-for-TV Christmas movies will be thrilled to see themselves represented in this unapologetically corny 81 minute film.
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Forster was 31 years old when "Howards End" appeared, at which time he was a closeted homosexual and a virgin who knew nothing of how erotic relations worked — with any combination of partners.
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These guys work really hard: The legal team spent each evening of the trial closeted in a war room until late at night, drinking 5-hour Energy drinks and eating lukewarm takeout food.
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For the programmers, engineers and tech founders here, the festival is an opportunity to network with an openness about gender and sexual identities that's uncommon for Berlin's growing, but often closeted, tech scene.
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Garfield won best actor in a play for his acclaimed performance in "Angels in America," which also won Nathan Lane his third Tony, as closeted conservative lawyer Roy Cohn, who died of AIDS.
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The saga of AIDS in Reagan-era America is seen winning Tonys for stars Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane, who plays closeted conservative lawyer Cohn, and taking the Tony for best play revival.
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Family ties, in particular the bond between two brothers — one an Anglican pastor, the other a closeted gay man — are tested by conflicting loyalties in this work by the English playwright Chris Urch.
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Adding fuel to the latest controversy was news on Monday that Netflix will soon end the landmark political drama "House of Cards," which stars Spacey as a corrupt and closeted bisexual U.S. president.
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Was Mateen a closeted gay man who put himself through the ringer of American masculinity in an attempt to fit in, before finally denying his true feelings in the most violent way imaginable?
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Terribly fitting, somehow, the fate of the club's founders: Steve Rubell, closeted during his life, died of complications from AIDS; Ian Schraeger continued his strategy of urban renewal by inventing the boutique hotel.
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For the past six months, a few of the nation's top military strategists have been closeted in the Pentagon writing the most important military document of our era: the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR).
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Kanji, a closeted gay man according to many readings of the game, comes to the conclusion that he must repress his sexuality and also accept that it will continue to be a punchline.
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Growing up a closeted teen in a small midwestern town with "living a small-town life with small town dreams," he longed for an escape, and at 17, he started posting vlogs on YouTube.
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Some of us who were forced to remain closeted through our teenage years — that crucial, terrible time for developing the earliest iterations of our adult identities — end up internalizing some slow-brewing queer shame.
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His work is chronicled in the 2009 documentary Outrage, which examines the cultural, political, and psychological forces that drive gay politicians into the closet, and what compels them to remain closeted for political gain.
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Well-meaning friends and colleagues (almost all of them closeted pot smokers) endlessly warned that I'd never land a "serious job" after being open about my personal refusal to obey the laws against marijuana.
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Those who are gay are left with a choice of remaining closeted for life or being completely cut off from family, friends, and a way of life that's evolved little in hundreds of years.
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Next up is Danny, a Christian Joseonjok from China's Korean ethnic minority, a closeted gay immigrant in the United States, a devout Christian and a good student — until his first crush brutally humiliates him.
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Reid previously mocked Crist, who was governor at the time, as a closeted gay man, calling him "Miss Charlie," and suggesting Republican leaders were "wooing" him once he married a woman, Mediaite reported Saturday.
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The more I communicated with my closeted pen pals—with their recurring themes of guilty trysts, secret identities, and desperate remorse—the more I felt my glorified recollections of the closet slipping away altogether.
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More specifically, Katims was asked why he decided to adapt Volpe's true story from one about being a closeted gay man coming to terms with himself into that of a restless straight family man.
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It makes sense to me that you've chosen to remain closeted to protect yourself, but there will come a day in the not-too-distant future when you won't have to do that anymore.
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The tragedy, and unsubstantiated rumors that Mr. Mateen may have been a closeted gay man, opened up a rare mainstream discourse, both in United States and in the Muslim world, on queerness in Islam.
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My father exhibited well-documented signs of bipolar disorder; add to that the psychological toll of being a closeted homosexual in mid-20th-century America and you have a recipe for his mental breakdown.
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I wondered if I should change it to respect his identity, or if I should keep it the way it was, so that he didn't get outed if it turned out he was closeted.
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There's palace intrigue, young love, closeted homosexuality, illegitimate children, war, assassination — the list goes on, much of it absurd, such as a kaleidoscope of monarch butterflies that land on David's head like a crown.
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"I was closeted in the changing room alone trying to concentrate on the ordeal ahead and trying to stay composed, but it was impossible," she recalled in an interview with Radio Prague in 22012.
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Though one character all but calls him a coward, saying he could have made a bigger difference, even saved lives, if he'd not been closeted, others, obviously speaking for Lopez, get the last word.
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"Being straight in this industry has been a huge key to my success," Bastian observes, telling me that 85 percent of his fans are gay, five percent are women, and the rest are closeted.
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Countless queer men and women in Hollywood, many of whom are still trapped within a closeted industry, have endured similar experiences and have had to suppress parts of their identities in order to succeed.
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Then there's the small detail that Grizz has the best love story in all of The Society as the closeted football player who falls for Sam Eliot (Sean Berdy), a queer boy who is deaf.
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And Jimmy didn't refer to himself as gay, he just happened to "fall in love with a boy" a number of times, whereas Lorraine, though closeted, embraced the words lesbian and homosexual to define herself.
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Whether it's been semi-closeted actors adding a queer flair to their character, or a director adding queer subtext to a film, or the audience creating fanfic once the work is out in the wild.
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Trump's closeted army is likely worth at least a few points as respectable, commonsense but average Americans choose the reality show they know and grimace at over the corrupt, calculating Clinton they resent and despise.
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"We have him with the problem of masculinity, which is a massive topic at the moment," Barden noted of the closeted gay man, who can be viewed as using assault to assert his own dominance.
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It was the romance between the central couple—Ridzwan, who is closeted, and Joel, who is not—and the shy, cautious manner in which they explore their relationship that compelled me to keep tuning in.
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The updated policy affected an estimated 14,700 transgender troops, most of whom faced a difficult choice in the weeks before the effective date arrived: whether to out themselves prematurely, remain closeted, or face being discharged.
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It's normal to feel uncomfortable about your body and even to be conflicted about what you feel, like the closeted little girl within me who still tried packing her bathing suit to look more manly.
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There's a moment in Outrage, where someone said that being closeted can actually help you as a politician, because so much of being a politician is being able to spin and pirouette on an issue.
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I admit it now, and I throw out a call for other closeted suicide attempt survivors to do the same: Own it, and find – or create — a safe group where you can talk about it.
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He was a closeted gay man who feared going to the few existing public gay venues to meet people and who feared even using public spaces to see in person someone he had met online.
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The third story concerns one of Sebald's great-uncles, Adelwarth, a German immigrant who worked as a valet in the United States, and whose life, as an immigrant and a closeted homosexual, bore immense strains.
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Hayley Kiyoko With her breakout video for "Girls like Girls" in 2015, Kiyoko shed her closeted Disney girl image and became one of the first pop princesses to use lesbian representation without blatantly exploiting it.
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JOSEPH RIDGWAY MARLTON, N.J. ⬥ Intolerance To the Editor: Laurent Linn's novel "Draw the Line" (June 19), about a semi-closeted teenage boy coping with a fair amount of intolerance at school, couldn't be more timely.
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The claims have prompted investigators to look into whether Mr. Mateen, who had called 911 pledging allegiance to the Islamic State, was also a closeted gay man consumed by feelings of self-loathing and revenge.
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On his own, David discovers a closeted culture of furtive cruising that arouses his desire while putting him in the excruciating position of having to police sexual activity in which he would like to engage.
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Another monumental two-part drama, a revival of "Angels in America," took 11 nominations, including best play revival, best actor Andrew Garfield and best featured actor for Nathan Lane as closeted conservative firebrand Roy Cohn.
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I've given this season credit for some unforgettable characters — especially Marilyn Miglin, the tycoon's widow, and David Madson, the semi-closeted architect (thanks in large part to exceptional performances by Judith Light and Cody Fern).
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Tense discussions continued in Brussels, where British and European officials were closeted in the headquarters of the European Commission, while in London, Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought to cajole influential lawmakers into accepting difficult compromises.
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But as an unabashed television connoisseur (including occasional closeted viewings of "The O'Reilly Factor"), I'd always appreciated the staging Mr. Ailes brought to Fox News, right down to the Marilyn Monroe treatment of beat reporters.
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In Mr. Kushner's sweeping two-parter, which ties the closeted lawyer Roy Cohn to others entangled in the epidemic, he found it — a vast, imaginative elision of the personal and the political, spirituality and sexuality.
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The thirty-eight-year-old actor Andrew Rannells is part of a new crop of gay stars—like Chris Colfer and Tituss Burgess—who never had to bother to be closeted in the public eye.
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I lived there for over 50 years, but that early part of my life was a double life: I was a closeted gay professional by day and then a compulsive and promiscuous hedonist by night.
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Here he is ... the KC Chiefs trainer who helped save a closeted gay NFL player from killing himself, David Price, tells TMZ Sports he was "elated" to find out he had such a positive impact.
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Joe, a closeted, strait-laced Mormon, finally loses his faith in Roy when he asks Joe to abuse a job he has been offered in the attorney-general's office in order to protect Roy from disbarment.
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Yet, viewers know no such seduction is possible since Marilyn's spouse is a closeted gay man counting down the hours until his male escort arrives; it doesn't matter how appealing Marilyn's chest is, Lee isn't interested.
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Many corporations and enterprises have Trumps who are harbored at the expense of employee well-being and productivity -- and it's important to note that men also fall prey to this, including by bosses who are closeted.
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Being in that place made it easier for her to film SMILF, in which she plays a possibly closeted working-class mother in Boston whose daughter [creator and star Frankie Shaw] is a single mother herself.
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But that presents an even more formidable task to their respective filmmakers, especially since Love, Simon and Alex Strangelove are about present-day white, male, high-achieving closeted gay teenagers with loving families and supportive friends.
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Reed describes him as a "local Boo Radley," but he owes far more to Jim Williams — the last semi-closeted real-life antiquarian living on legacy antebellum property to inspire his own Southern gothic tell-all.
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An early chapter sets this in motion: Gess is the exciting slightly older writer whose career seems about to take off, and Lisicky is a young closeted student in thrall to her glamour and quicksilver wit.
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"I told him, 'Be imaginative and create a character who has a history of being gay, rather than Sulu, who had been straight all this time, suddenly being revealed as being closeted,' " Takei told the Reporter.
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In the film, Queen Anne is ailing and secretly having her closest confidant—and closeted lover—Sarah Churchill, the Duchess of Marlborough, make official decisions regarding the kingdom during one of its most rocky political periods.
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It's pretty strange for the director and co-writer of a film trumpeting humanity for all — whether for a closeted gay man or an Amazonian fish monster — to draw the line at sexual fetishes and kinks.
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Federal law enforcement officials said Thursday that the F.B.I. is increasingly skeptical of reports that Mr. Mateen was gay but "closeted," that he had been visiting gay clubs or that he had used gay dating apps.
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Death as a hideaway, a sanctuary, a withdrawal into the place where costumes are stored: the gender-bending artist suggests that the dead are not gone but closeted and thus capable of returning in transmuted forms.
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Louis's cowardice (disguised as Nietzschean self-assertion) is mirrored by that of Joe Pitt (Lee Pace), a closeted Mormon lawyer with little patience for his Valium-popping, fantasist wife, Harper (Denise Gough, of "People, Places & Things").
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As a semi-closeted gay man, Fry finds a nihilistic kind of freedom during his time in Marseille, but his task — based on the notion that some lives are worth more than others — resists heroic gloss.
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Canada's legalization of pot this week isn't just a boon to formerly closeted stoners—Canadian scientists are also stoked about easier access and better funding to the devil's lettuce, kickstarting a new wave of cannabis research.
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As a young, small-town closeted teen still struggling to figure out who I was, here was a show that gave me a glimpse into how my future could potentially be like: independent, confident and fabulous.
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In this context, any closeted Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Democrats start hinting Sanders should drop out Coronavirus disrupts presidential campaigns MORE supporters quietly observe the fray.
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He has explored the American racial divide through a dizzying range of variations on classic, creaky forms: minstrel show ("Neighbors"); 19th-century melodrama ("An Octoroon"); and even the Southern gothic potboiler, replete with closeted skeletons ("Appropriate").
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But Duan and essentially everyone I have spoken to involved in China's L.G.B.T.Q. life — straight and gay, closeted and out, NGO volunteers and venture capitalists — seem to echo the same sentiment, that the freeze will pass.
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But Hudson's status as a closeted queer man, along with Day's own stature as a woman struggling to control her own financial and professional destiny, complicated that legacy and the wholesome frivolity of their all-American image.
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Gay and lesbian people have only been allowed to serve openly in the military since the 2010 repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the Clinton-era legislation that required service members to remain closeted about their sexuality.
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I think the other guys in the chorus probably thought he was closeted, but I checked his pupil dilation while he was looking at porn, and I can assure them—he is really, really attracted to women.
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A few amateur shrinks (that is, critics) offered a variety of interpretations, including that the play was about closeted homosexuality — a suggestion that especially flummoxed Mr. Shaffer — and professional ones complained about the portrayal of their profession.
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Everyone, seemingly, is hot for someone they can't have or who's utterly oblivious to their interest, in a Netflix series that throws together teen beauty pageants, raging hormones and closeted desires in one surprisingly binge-worthy stew.
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I recently published a novel, Arcade, in which the narrator—a slightly more neurotic version of my former self—wrestles with his closeted existence, and the same anxieties about his sexuality and masculinity that once consumed me.
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I've been a closeted Trekkie since a child, having watched the entire original series as reruns on my dad's VHS tapes, so this seemed like a unique opportunity to check out the most hardcore of Trekkie specimens.
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About 46 percent of LGBTQ workers say that they're closeted at work, according to the Human Rights Campaign's 2019 Corporate Equality Index, and 13 percent say they worry that being out at work will get them fired.
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On Twitter, Vanaman spoke out strongly against PewDiePie and urged other developers to follow suit: He's worse than a closeted racist: he's a propagator of despicable garbage that does real damage to the culture around this industry.
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But Amazon's new, three-part series A Very English Scandal tells the absolutely true story of Jeremy Thorpe, an ambitious and closeted British politician in the 1970s who attempted to orchestrate the murder of an unpredictable ex-lover.
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They cheered at the final reveal of Simon's secret pen pal (the other closeted gay kid in his school — the two chat under pseudonyms and don't know each other's identities) and at a teacher standing up against bullies.
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Fans like Erin, though, take it a step further, arguing that stars like Swift or ex-One Directioner Zayn Malik, who recently briefly ended his very public relationship with model Gigi Hadid, are actually in closeted gay relationships.
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All revenue streams considered, some estimate that Dr. Lee's net worth is north of $8 million — and will likely continue to grow considering her savvy diversification and new reach, extending well past the closeted popaholics of the world.
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Sebastian develops a plan to blackmail Annette's closeted, football-playing friend Greg (Eric Mabius) — who he thinks has turned Annette against him — by photographing Greg in bed with Sebastian's friend Blaine (Joshua Jackson, in full bleached-blonde glory).
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Takei told THR that he was still closeted in the summer of 1968 when he swam up to Roddenberry at a pool party and had a conversation with him about integrating a gay equality theme into the series.
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The "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, implemented under President Bill Clinton, prohibited military personnel from discriminating against or harassing closeted homosexual or bisexual service members or applicants, while barring openly gay, lesbian or bisexual people from military service.
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But when I view it through the lens of a closeted teenager who was hesitant to glance at another guy twice, I also see that it instilled a sense of belonging in me when I needed it most.
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This might partially explain why Brokeback Mountain's romanticized and shrouded image of two closeted cowboys having sex in a tent is more widely known than the playful sexual acrobatics found in John Cameron Mitchell's sex-driven dramedy Shortbus.
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Although the characters fall into types, they quickly carve out their own personalities and stories, from the closeted gay kid (DeRon Horton) to the ambitious student-body president (Brandon P. Bell) who shudders under the weight of expectations.
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The only advice I would give to closeted entertainers today is the advice I took for myself: It was lonely and it was scary and it was dark and I was unhappy, so be true to thine self.
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In 2011, Obama signed a repeal of the Clinton era "don't ask, don't tell" policy that blocked openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual individuals from joining the military but prohibited military personnel from harassing or targeting closeted LGBT members.
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It's full of honest advice and playful banter - I hope that young closeted LGBTQ+ people can find relief and witness how our gender and sexuality expression can often lead to finding the families that we get to choose.
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His style is marked by a kind of calm hysteria, or a calm that alternates with hysteria, as he struggles with the things that the straight world and his formerly closeted and frightened self think should remain unsaid.
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Whistleblowers from college campuses to Silicon Valley to Hollywood have begun to bring rampant, closeted sexual harassment out of the shadows, yet for every brave woman who speaks out, hundreds of powerful men remain silent and thus complicit.
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Cohn (who spent his whole life closeted and died of AIDS the year before the interview) was a friend of Nixon's and reportedly helped him win reelection in 1972 by leaking Democratic VP candidate Thomas Eagleton's psychiatric history.
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Instead, her death became something of a touchstone in China, igniting public debate over a little known issue: Luo Hongling was a tongqi, one of the estimated millions of heterosexual women in China married to closeted gay men.
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For those reasons, she came under fire by the columnist Michelangelo Signorile, who during the run of the magazine OutWeek named and shamed closeted gay celebrities whom he saw as hypocrites in the midst of a deadly pandemic.
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Going undercover, he initiates a clandestine sexual affair with the closeted Russ Langmore (Marc Menchaca) — and promises him the fanciest bait-and-tackle business the Ozarks have ever seen — as means to flip him into doing his bidding.
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Five nights and two afternoons a week, one of those Mormons, Joe Pitt, a closeted lawyer working for the infamous fixer Roy Cohn, goes through hell and out the other side to come out as a gay man.
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The many-closeted master suite is in a large dormer room and has a bathroom with a double sink surrounded by floor-to-ceiling wood cabinetry and a white-marble-faced stand-alone tub and walk-in shower.
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A closeted gay man with a large inheritance and a penchant for Victorian dandyism, Roussel was finishing a piece called "La Doublure" — an epic poem focused on wordplay (doublure means both an understudy and the lining of a coat).
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But when Nyswaner handed in his four-hour script, it was soon after Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra — starring Michael Douglas as the famously flamboyant (and also closeted) performer Liberace, who also died from AIDS — had aired on HBO.
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He stars in the based-on-a-true-story drama A Very English Scandal, playing Jeremy Thorpe, a member of Parliament and a closeted gay man in the late 1960s — when that was not an acceptable way to live.
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Still, the opportunity for him to connect to another arises when one student (codename "Blue") posts an anonymous confession on the school's gossip blog (think Whisper meets Crazy Days and Nights) about the difficulties of being gay and closeted.
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In a recent survey conducted by the Human Rights Campaign, it was revealed that 46% of LGBTQ workers in the U.S. remain closeted at work with stereotyping, sexualization of their orientation, and discrimination being among the top reasons why.
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But he focused most of his article on the response he got from the gay site Grindr and included in it potentially identifying details about closeted athletes from nations where being out could have serious personal and legal repercussions.
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The documentary follows Bower, a former sex worker, as he describes his wild life running a brothel out of a gas station and divulges the many alleged secrets from his time acting as an escort to closeted gay celebrities.
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LGBT rights took another significant, albeit ironic step forward this week when the U.S. Navy bestowed one of its greatest honors on gay activist Harvey Milk, who had served as a closeted young naval officer during the Korean War.
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In 93, toward the end of "Nip/Tuck" 's run, Murphy filmed a labor of love—"Pretty/Handsome," a pilot about a closeted trans gynecologist, played by Joseph Fiennes, who lives in Darien, Connecticut, with his wife and kids.
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Featuring masterly performances by Anthony Perkins (whose closeted homosexuality gives the film a rich retrospective subtext), Jeanne Moreau and Welles himself, "The Trial" is one of Welles's more underrated works but also one of his most nightmarish and inventive.
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While I knew many queer people in Dubai who liked living there (even if the vast majority had to be closeted for safety reasons), I also knew a lot who did not and were actively looking for work elsewhere.
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From its contrived structure to its forced speechifying, this story about a yearslong correspondence between Donovan (Kit Harington), a closeted actor, and Rupert (Jacob Tremblay), a troubled prepubescent boy, never acquires the emotional potency or coherence its themes demand.
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"He has a mischievous streak that really works for me and that is very fun to play with," said the series's female lead, Jerrika Hinton, who plays a closeted F.B.I. agent struggling to separate the good guys from bad.
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The series is most interesting when it deals with the day-to-day marginalization of its outsiders: Mo as an African-American CEO; Dawn as an underestimated woman; other characters as closeted gays in a time of shameless homophobia.
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Its most touching scene sees a woman, Claudia, reading a letter she wrote when she was a teenager, expressing her anxiety over being closeted and her fears that she wouldn't be able to have a family or normal life.
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Her co-conspirators are her neighbor Giles (Richard Jenkins), a closeted queer artist; her best friend Zelda (Octavia Spencer), a Black co-worker; and Dr. Hoffstetler (Michael Stuhlbarg), a passionate scientist who also happens to be a Russian spy.
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North's short, touching contemporary novel explores the romantic dance between Connor Graham, a New York fashion photographer who escaped his rural New England roots, and Jed Jones, the religious, stuttering, basically closeted blueberry grower who leases the farm Connor inherited.
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Lest this sounds like an all too serious affair, know that the memoir is peppered with anecdotes about notoriously closeted Hollywood stars (Rock Hudson), supportive gay mentors (Christopher Isherwood), and many failed sexual encounters, all told in Maupin's signature droll wit.
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I've had a particular weakness for Peter Pan kinds of queers, which doesn't encompass all andro bois but, rather, a particular subset therein: lesbians and enbies living out delayed adolescences after being denied the real thing in their closeted youths.
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Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) knows he's gay, but he hasn't come out to anyone when he starts an anonymous pen pal romance with a fellow closeted kid, launching Simon on a quest to sleuth out who that person could be.
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Kimmy is self-involved and dispassionate; Titus (Titus Burgess) is a successful actor pretending to be straight; Lillian (Carol Kane) finds her niche as a drug lord, and Jacqueline (Jane Krakowski) finds herself unhappily married to the closeted Mikey (Mike Carlsen).
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The clearest success of the reboot is an episode titled "To Gay or Not Too Gay," the subject of which is a semi-closeted gay man, in a relationship and out to his close friends but not to his stepmother.
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While bisexual women are often stereotyped as sleeping with women for male attention, or just going through a phase en route to permanent heterosexuality, the opposite is presumed of bisexual men: that they are simply confused or semi-closeted gay men.
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Stan, a closeted queer man with a wife and kids, doesn't have to work for Trump for us to understand who he is as a character and the problems he faces as someone climbing the corporate ladder in the 1980s.
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Other pictures of Harington in his new role have previously surfaced on Twitter, showing the actor in character as a closeted man whose suicide results in the discovery of those letters shared with a fan that some believe to be inappropriate.
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The MacArthur Genius's best-selling 22018 graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic — titled after the Bechdel family's nickname for their funeral business — explores the author's relationship with her closeted gay father, his unexpected death, and her own coming out.
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Let's hope that Reid's apology is genuine and that she, too, has actually learned it's bigoted, tasteless, and disrespectful to claim that anti-LGBTQ+ politicians are really just closeted people who are using their own self-hatred to hurt others.
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While most recent gay films (Disobedience, Moonlight, Call Me By Your Name, Love, Simon) revolve around a closeted or coming-out narrative, Duck Butter gives us the complete opposite: a steamy one-and-a-half hours of actualized queer passion.
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If you're reading this, it's probably because you've experienced the frustration with dating sites and apps that claim to be inclusive to all sexual orientations, only to realize that some closeted quirks make it obvious that the straights are the target.
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Spacey's queerness had been rumored to the point of being borderline public knowledge for years, but he was also part of an old-school Hollywood marketing machine that kept stars closeted to sell movies and increase their middle-American appeal.
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Other rich nuggets: a showcase, with audio, of real love letters written by slaves; excerpts from a performance-art project about black hair and identity; a "closeted history" that finds a television showing footage of Bayard Rustin, literally in a closet.
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It's admittedly not a big deal most of the time, but for me coming out always feels like a potentially unpleasant awkwardness that has to be confronted again and again, an endless obligation that straight and closeted people aren't saddled with.
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With Smith's challenge thrown down, though, McCarthy in the second act is hellbent on her destruction, threatening to expose not only her secrets (her congressman husband was chronically unfaithful and died of syphilis) but also Lewis's (he is gay and closeted).
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You cannot claim to be egalitarian and anti-racism and choose to be closeted among family and friends or even in your community for fear of rejection and ostracism, or as is often used as an excuse, to keep the peace.
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President Trump's trashy talk has prompted yet another discussion of his relationship with the Black community in America, which has repeatedly felt alienated by his rhetoric and also by his associations with people accused of harboring closeted or outright racist views.
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His rise from closeted cop to out tech mogul has been widely documented in the media: He grew up in the early '21.6s, when homosexuality was still prosecuted as "hooliganism," punishable by detention or even time at a labor camp.
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About 15 years after Milk was assassinated, President Bill Clinton signed "don't ask, don't tell," a policy that banned military personnel from discriminating against closeted LGBTQ service members but still barred openly LGBTQ people from serving in the armed forces.
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By offering hints at athletes' heights, weights, other physical features, and placement in their respective competitions, it gives just enough information to put together who some of them are — and, as Attitude points out, it looks like at least one was indeed closeted.
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Some people have attributed this disparity to the myth of the "down low," the idea that the HIV virus is spreading at an extreme pace among blacks because they're having secret sex with one another while remaining closeted and having sex with women.
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The final straw was the announcement of his plan to make a movie of the book by Frédéric Martel, "In the Closet of the Vatican," a project [concerned with closeted homosexuality among Catholic clergy] with which I was in complete and clear disagreement.
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I was still very closeted and had no frame of reference for knowing what I actually wanted or knowing how to engage with my body, so I was clinging on to these little symbols of connection that I would get tattooed on me.
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Directed by Saheem Ali, the cast includes Ato Blankson-Wood ("When They See Us") as the closeted Dembe; Robert Gilbert as his boyfriend, Sam; and James Udom as Dembe's big brother, Joe, a pastor who spews anti-gay venom from the pulpit.
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The show features a number of queer characters, including Nomi Marks, a trans hacker played by rising star Jamie Clayton, and Lito Rodriguez, a (formerly closeted) gay action star played by Miguel Ángel Silvestre, best known for his roles in Pedro Almodóvar films.
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President Donald Trump's frustration with Kirstjen Nielsen, which boiled over Wednesday in a Cabinet meeting tirade, has been growing for weeks — stoked by associates who have privately made the case that she's a closeted "never Trumper" who still doesn't fully back his agenda.
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Before the movie "Beach Rats" opened late in the summer, the advance buzz was about Harris Dickinson, the up-and-coming British actor playing a closeted gay Brooklyn youth struggling with his sexuality and the emptiness of his day-to-day life.
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Later, in Episode 8, the closeted gay hit man Vito Spatafore (Joseph R. Gannascoli) goes on the lam to a quaint New Hampshire town, where he pretends to be a writer and wonders if he can avoid his grim fate back home.
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Saddened by his comments, and concerned about the impact they might have on closeted youths, Ms. Cummings took to Twitter on Thursday morning to offer a message of support: What Ms. Cummings did not expect was for the volunteer family to grow.
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One of the advantages for many people using Craigslist—and one of high importance for guys who are closeted—was that you didn't have to enter a bunch of personal information or download any apps that might be found on your phone.
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It was a given under Rosenthal's editorship that the Times would bring up none of this to protect the criminally hypocritical Cohn, who had threatened closeted gay government officials with exposure in the McCarthy era and loudly fought gay rights ever since.
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Featuring three actors simultaneously playing Gorey at various stages of his life — in his mid 20s (Phil Gillen), in his mid 30s (Aidan Sank), and at 75 (Andrew Dawson) — the show presents Gorey as a closeted, mostly rebuffed gay man resigned to his solitude.
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The feeling that you need to look over your shoulder just because of your sexuality or gender expression; that you had to be closeted; that you expected abuse; that there was little representation of your life in popular culture—all that was real, everyday stuff.
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A 2016 report on the climate for LGBQ people in physics documented what Hughes describes in his study as a "heterosexist climate that reinforces gender role stereotypes in STEM work environments," as well as a culture that often requires or encourages people to remain closeted.
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They are, after all, being closeted against their will, so when they touch each other or even acknowledge one another on social media, they're doing it at some risk, and with the hope that we'll see it, and know exactly what they mean by it.
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I was no longer the miserable, struggling teen who used these lyrics like a lifeline, but it still felt so good to sing these songs with a person I was starting to love, to pay homage to the sad, closeted queer kids we'd once been.
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Through photos and text, the book follows several queer Indians as they navigate their daily lives, such as closeted men with wives and children who go cruising in secret, and openly gay couples who fear that one day they will be persecuted for their relationship.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Flanked by multiple security guards, Kim Kardashian and her family on Thursday left the Manhattan apartment where they have been closeted since she was robbed at gunpoint in Paris, amid reports that the reality star was planning to take some time off.
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Instead, that distinction belongs to more transient characters: in Episode 3, Marilyn Miglin, the widow of a Chicago real-estate developer whom Cunanan murdered; and now in Episode 4, David Madson, a semi-closeted Minneapolis architect who has the misfortune of attracting Cunanan's amorous attention.
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Then, the police detained more than 100 men and tortured many with electrical shocks while asking them to reveal the identities of their partners or others in the deeply closeted gay community in Chechnya, according to Human Rights Watch and interviews with former detainees.
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Until then, Matt Tyrnauer's gossipy portrait of Scotty Bowers, an impish nonagenarian and former Marine, listens without judgment as he describes decades of servicing the closeted hungers of stars like Rock Hudson and Katharine Hepburn, helped by an eager network of World War II buddies.
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Others said the film was totally plugged into the moment, with its story of a ragtag threesome of underdogs — a mute woman (who is sexually harassed), a black woman and a closeted gay artist — who work to save a demonized "other" from the man.
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If Mr. Bratton's biography — from homeless youth to closeted military brat to Ivy League-educated filmmaker — sounds like a Hollywood screenplay, that's because he is writing it, as part of a script lab at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
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Anchored by her relationship with her father — a closeted English teacher and funeral director obsessed with appearances — and by the story of the author's own coming-out, the book exquisitely frames Bechdel's complicated childhood as shaped by literature to reveal her origins as an artist.
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That audience was presumably much better-versed on the scandal that inspired the series (and the John Preston true-crime novel it was adapted from), which involved a closeted gay member of Parliament named Jeremy Thorpe, a male model, blackmail and a murder plot.
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That slow progress came to a full stop on April 6, 1975, when The Times published a freewheeling, knowing and uninhibited account by Clifford Jahr of a luxury cruise through the Gulf of Mexico for lesbians and gay men, many of whom were closeted.
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Don't think the gay BFF in a romantic comedy, or the tragic closeted gay man in a tearjerker means the days of Rock Hudson are over -- in Hollywood, politics (Ed Koch), music (Luther Vandross), or for an average man working a 9-to-5.
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Eventually, I started my own anonymous trans account, which initially was meant to document the tragicomedy of being a closeted trans woman, but it quickly became a place to take baby steps into expressing my authentic identity without suddenly jumping into real world situations.
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According to the Washington Post, the Russian paper believes the government began their homophobic crusade after a Moscow LGBTQ rights organization filed petitions for a series of protests and that the Chechen authorities have since used gay dating sites to track down target closeted men.
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An adaptation of Becky Albertalli's 2015 novel of the same name, the film tells the story of Simon (Jurassic World's Nick Robinson) — a 16-year-old closeted gay teenager who struggles to keep his sexuality hidden after a classmate discovers his secret and begins blackmailing him.
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On his reality television show "Celebrity Apprentice," he was the uber-successful billionaire and alpha male who lived in a golden tower—an image that is arguably more accessible to the average person than the closeted world of Hamptons cocktail parties that Clinton was portrayed as inhabiting.
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Mr. Goggins takes his slightly surreal intensity — simultaneously feral and blissed-out — and applies it to a kind of wacko different from what he's played before, a possibly closeted, smooth-talking dandy (his plaid bow ties deserve their own credit) with deep reserves of rage and perversity.
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The same year that the Camdens came into being, a closeted lesbian named Rosie O'Donnell got her own talk show, launching goodies into her audience with a slingshot the same way that she disseminated the gay agenda to the American public through cheeky interviews with celebrities.
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Previous research suggests that stressors related to being closeted or coming out and being rejected by family or friends could contribute to an increased risk of substance use among sexual minority teens, senior study author John Ayers of San Diego State University in California told Reuters Health.
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In the last 15 years, the epidemic has shifted into groups that are hard to test and even harder to keep on daily medication: men who are closeted, drug injectors, the homeless, the rural poor, the mentally ill and those with little income and no health insurance.
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But I also met longtime Democrats and formerly "closeted conservatives," people like Lynzee and Michelle Domanico, a married lesbian couple who in 2018 launched The Closet on the Right, a website for "people living in fear" of being "shunned, abandoned and vilified" for their conservative beliefs.
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And if Louis isn't gay, and closeted — if he wrote those words in those tweets, and meant them — then this person who they've sunk hours and years and incredible amounts of love and devotion into thinking and talking about, well, he might not have been worth it at all.
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Photo via Instagram The first time Byron Scott Adams made the 45-minute trek from his sleepy Anaheim home to Downtown LA's The Smell, the 17-year-old was still getting comfortable with the idea of driving by himself—let alone discussing his still-closeted sexuality with others.
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At the height of her influence, in the 1980s and early '90s, Ms. Smith covered for still-closeted celebrities like Malcolm Forbes and promoted conservative socialites like Pat Buckley, whose husband, William F. Buckley Jr., the editor of National Review, had written that people with AIDS should be tattooed.
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In a way, the play is a utopian fantasy of a wholly gay little world (with the insertion of one terrified, maybe-probably-closeted straight man as the exception that proves the rule) at the final moment before that world was — finally, necessarily, violently — merged with the mainstream.
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During the Television Critics Association Press Tour in January, Mr. Katims kicked up an internet fuss when he revealed that in one instance he'd departed from real life, changing the character of Lou from a closeted gay man, which Lou Volpe was for many years, to a straight one.
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While Pride Month celebrates the progress that L.G.B.T. people have made in living openly gay lives, social taboos during Mr. Franklin's heyday pressured other closeted men to assume the trappings of a straight life, perhaps even marrying a woman as a cover, something Mr. Franklin did not do.
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Mr. Buttigieg, 37, who graduated from Harvard and Oxford, spoke with pride and amazement about being featured on the cover of Time magazine with his husband, Chasten, under the headline, "First Family," something he said he never could have contemplated was possible when he was a closeted teenager.
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After Valentino, there was a string of shorts and documentaries on subjects including Jane Jacobs's battle for Greenwich Village against Robert Moses and the salacious but not entirely provable tale of Scotty Bowers, who ran a mobile bordello for closeted stars out of a gas station on Hollywood Boulevard.
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Sometimes I dream of seeing an elderly, grown-up Hermey making one of those "It Gets Better" videos, sending a message back to a younger generation of closeted elves that with luck, things can turn out all right, if only you can gain agency over your own life.
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Roger Bevins III, a closeted gay man who manifests as a many-limbed body covered with extra eyes and noses and mouths and ears, with slashes on every wrist, must experience all the sensual pleasures of the world, which he only realized existed while he was committing suicide.
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While the film's tale of a closeted teen (Robinson) who wants to find a big, romantic love story like all his straight peers do certainly resonated with Riverdale's secretly bisexual Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch), executive producer Berlanti's connection to the project may have had something to do with the tie-in.
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"You get bullying from your peers and school, you get bullying from even some of the teachers... (if you give) conservative groups a platform that brings it into the home and puts it on the television, you're going to have closeted teenagers... told they're less equal than other people," he says.
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It's human nature to seek causality in the face of senseless violence, but speculative reasons that he chose a popular gay nightclub on a Latin dance night to murder 49 people—that he was a closeted gay man, that he had been spurned by a former lover—remain in question.
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The people we see in Moonlight don't want our pity, which is what makes these characters exceedingly inspiring and human: Whether it's Naomie Harris's drug-addicted mother or the closeted Chiron, everyone in the ensemble can only see their life in the urgent present, unable to conceive of a future.
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God only knows how many marriages between ambitious women and closeted gay men were created (and endured, even now) during the decades-long rights revolution in the United States that culminated with the full striking down of sodomy laws, in 2003, and the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage, in 2015.
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Spacey, who won an Oscar for The Usual Suspects in 1996 and another for American Beauty in 2000, remained closeted throughout most of his career, and remained fiercely protective of his privacy and his right not to publicly discuss his sexuality right up until his Sunday-night coming out via Twitter.
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" In contrast to the self-consciously homoerotic undertones of his early novels, written while he was still closeted, references to his partner now register almost like a comedian's bit: Todd's a "political monster" who "sits in front of MSNBC having meltdown after meltdown … yet his bounce-back time is pretty good.
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For another show she organized at the Grey Art Gallery shortly after his death, "Success Is a Job in New York," she interviewed his former fashion colleagues who said they admired Warhol's "flamboyance" back in the 1950s, at a time when artists like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg were closeted.
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Of course, the links between them were even more twisted than that, since J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI, was a closeted homosexual, and so was Roy Cohn, Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army-McCarthy hearings — and so, a number of historians have speculated, was McCarthy himself.
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He's recently learned that Forster was a closeted gay man, who found the impossibility of writing truthfully about his desires so crippling that he stopped publishing novels in his forties, suppressing his one explicitly gay-themed book, "Maurice," until after his death, in 1970, at the age of ninety-one.
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Because the first of many sequels to Wes Craven's hit from 1984 has been reclaimed as a great example subtext sneaking its way into a would-be blockbuster: Some fans see this 1985 movie as the story of a closeted teenager's fear of his sexuality, with Freddy embodying the impulses within.
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Understanding what drove Cunanan is at the heart of the project, but "The Assassination of Gianni Versace" is frankly more notable for some of its smaller roles, and for what it says about the toll exacted by homophobia and being closeted during the 1990s, which contributed to the authorities' slow response.
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One National Guard intelligence sergeant named Mac, who did not want to give his full name because he now fears being discharged, worried that the cost of investigations to ferret out closeted transgender troops could eclipse the costs of providing medical care, and in the process drive away career service members.
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Thankfully, our heroine has two guides into her brand new world, best friends Diana (Jennifer Bartels), a type-A Working Woman with flawless Lynda Carter-ish waves, and Kathleen (Mena Suvari), an apparent Texas heiress with a habit of choosing the wrong — aka closeted — guys, like Cheyenne Jackson's heavily mustachioed casting director Greg.
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The show boasted the first regular trans character with Max, played by Daniela Sea, as well as depictions of several unexplored facets of the community, such as lesbians dating each other's exes—and sometimes even their exes—as well as privileges some queer women have from passing as straight, or even remaining closeted.
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When I first watched the series as a college student, semi-closeted and working up the courage to break up with my long-term boyfriend (because of the whole gay thing), it wasn't so much the spectacularly volatile lesbian romances on L Word that pulled on my heartstrings — it was the friendships.
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While closeted at the time, Bob Mould and of Hüsker Dü and Darby Crash of the Germs would eventually lend queer visibility to two influential punk bands (though their bands were not queercore and didn't deal in gay themes.) Out musicians like Gary Floyd of the Dicks, however, were already making waves.
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Talia Lavin, a staff member of the New Yorker and contributor to The Village Voice, came under fire over the weekend after spreading misinformation and accusing Justin Gaertner – a combat-wounded Marine veteran and the agency's forensic analyst – of being a closeted Nazi sympathizer for a tattoo she perceived as being the "Iron Cross" tattoo.
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Finally, there's the bevy of snarky bros who make up the rest of the hockey team — you might say they're secretly the "mane" event: The comic is a byproduct of Ukazu's interest in hockey as a fan and the research she did on homophobia in hockey leagues while writing a screenplay about a closeted player.
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Rather than focus solely on the romance between Sweety and Kuhu (Regina Cassandra), Chopra and co-writer Gazal Dhaliwal, who is trans, pivot the emotional core to center around Sweety's relationships with her father, Balbil (Anil Kapoor) and her brother Babloo (Abhishek Duhan) and their respective roles in keeping her closeted for so long.
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Unfortunately, though, instead of letting this stand as a charming glimpse into the previously closeted world of children's television, Sesame Street's parent company took to Twitter yesterday with a ham-fisted denial — not just of Bert and Ernie's romantic relationship, but of the very concept of, um, puppets having sexual orientations: This is patently ridiculous.
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She masterfully shows how he became, on the one hand, a successful artist and writer, brimming with "warmth and wit" and surrounded by friends; and on the other, desperately self-critical, closeted, conscious of his owl-like glasses and large nose, despairing of his "demon" epilepsy, melancholy and lonely, "forever roaming with a hungry heart".
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"I think drug-using sex workers disrupt other sex-worker activists' ideas around a sanitized image…a 'clean' image that is best put forward, in their mind, to the public when fighting for our rights," says Marisa, a prominent 37-year-old East Coast sex-worker activist who is also a closeted heroin user.
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And the reason Sandra couldn't be with that guy was because she was attempting to keep up the pretense of being in a relationship with district manager Jeff (Michael Bunin), who was gay and closeted, despite having a romantic interest in Cloud 9 employee (and original core cast member) Mateo, played by Nico Santos.
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A closeted businessman is murdered, and even as the details are covered up by his family — who to this day insist the murder was completely random, despite the fact that the man had clearly let Cunanan into his house — the scripts move backward in time, both resurrecting him and restoring whatever secrets he kept.
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Despite never expressing, alluding to, or otherwise intimating an attraction to persons of the same sex (I was in my male presentation at the time as a closeted trans woman), it wasn't a year and a half into my service in an all-male infantry unit that I started hearing rumors circulate about me.
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The elegant Lena Horne-style entertainer was treated as if she were a jungle savage; the Japanese-American woman was subjected to what was essentially a ballet rape (complete with a pillowcase to cover her head); the gay soldier became a burlesque drag queen, thrusting his prop bosom into the face of his closeted lover.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates jumped into the fray in a 22016 essay for Slate that questioned why the myth of the "on-the-down-low brother" refused to die, referencing a controversial 26 cover story in this magazine by a white writer who went into the scene to uncover closeted black men who lead double lives.
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Seven of the eight principal performers in the British cast are coming to New York with the production; the eighth, Russell Tovey ("Quantico"), was unable to make the move because of a television role; the production now needs to cast someone as Joe Pitt, the closeted gay Mormon law clerk Mr. Tovey played in London.
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" He's gay and closeted (Ireland decriminalized homosexuality only a few years earlier), so Catherine settles for an intense friendship — but she doesn't, really, and her obsessive feelings of desire consume her: "She could not understand why they had such a hold over her, gripping her by the hair it seemed sometimes, clasping her by the throat.
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Jeffrey, his profile cast in total shadow, gives an anonymous interview to a CBS reporter in a dingy motel about being closeted in the military; Versace (Édgar Ramírez), accompanied by his long-term partner Antonio D'Amico (Ricky Martin), sits down with the news publication the Advocate in a lavish hotel suite for his official coming out.
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Family Romance owner, Ishii Yuichi, claims he's personally been called upon to play the role of the loving groom at a closeted lesbian's sham wedding, the intimidating yakuza boyfriend of an unfaithful woman whose husband demanded a confrontation with his wife's lover, and even the affectionate father of a young girl who never met her real dad.
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"Part of that process was the technical, but it was also having somebody that created the space for me, as a closeted gay person back in the eighties and nineties - a totally different world and also in the world of sport, which still isn't very progressive on most issues - this space to be me," Tewksbury explained.
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The President-elect emerged from three weeks closeted in Trump Tower and his private resorts where he is building his Cabinet, for a full bore, campaign style rally, before a fired up and adoring crowd on the first leg of a pre-inauguration "thank-you" tour through key battleground states with Vice President-elect Mike Pence.
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In the groundbreaking 1993 video essay film Rock Hudson's Home Movies, the director Mark Rappaport convincingly contends that Hudson, the beloved star of many a 1950s romantic feature who lived his life as a closeted gay man, would often invite his friends over to watch his movies to have a good laugh at the subtext he slid in.
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Marianne Elliott ("War Horse") directs a cast that includes Andrew Garfield (as the drag queen who speaks with angels), Denise Gough (as a pharmaceutically numbed Mormon, at sea in New York and the Antarctic) and, in one of the season's most anticipated marriages of an actor and a role, Nathan Lane (as the closeted super-lawyer Roy Cohn).
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This sliver of a sandbar had been the exclusive preserve of closeted gay men since the 1960s, but, thanks to the former model John B. Whyte, who helped develop it as a gay resort, it attracted the likes of Robert Mapplethorpe, Calvin Klein, David Geffen, Edmund White and other members of the so-called "gay mafia" throughout the 1970s.
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FUN HOME (230)A Family TragicomicBy Alison Bechdel In this acclaimed graphic memoir, which was turned into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Alison Bechdel — a cartoonist also known for creating the Bechdel test, a standard for judging the quality of women's onscreen roles — describes both coming out and coming to terms with her closeted gay father's death.
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McKellen kept his sexuality secret—only coming out as gay at the age of 49 because he wanted to advocate for the LGBTQ community "I didn't really know who I was—a closeted gay," McKellen, the 80-year-old star of the new film The Good Liar, tells author Gary O'Connor, while reflecting on his time at Cambridge University.
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I admired "Play It as It Lays"—there isn't a closeted gay adolescent on the planet who wouldn't identify with its nihilism played out in the glare of glamorous privilege—but it didn't thrill me like "A Book of Common Prayer," which has a full-bodied pathos and yearning that Didion's other early fiction lacks or suppresses.
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The closeted Forster is even a character in "The Inheritance," looking with awe and no little concern at his hotheaded progeny — a sampling of contemporary gay men in a muddle — as they make the same blunders his parallel "Howards End" characters made then: ignoring history, trying to manhandle the future, acting from selfishness and self-delusion.
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There were many reasons I could pinpoint as to why she would wish to stay closeted — an established, higher-level job in factory work (a career field not known for its widespread acceptance of marginalized groups); the widespread attitude among the trans community that only young people can transition smoothly; the fact that transgender women are murdered at alarmingly high rates.
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The lives of John B. McLemore, who "learned to live without" intimacy, and Olan Long, who went without sex for at least six years, are what gayness looks like in certain parts of the country—where gay men are few and far between, and where straight (or closeted) men feel compelled to murder when they're made to feel less masculine.
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Stunned, Cruz listens as Emma finally unravels the story behind the veil of silence and shame, about why she disappeared from her hometown and never came back: Vidalia, Emma's mother, was closeted herself, so when Emma began sexually experimenting with girls, Vidalia sent her away to live with her stern, unsympathetic aunt in South Texas without ever telling her why.
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The film alternates between shadowing Bowers during the launch of his 2012 tell-all memoir Full Service and chronicling his one-of-a-kind journey from some of the harshest battlefields of World War II to the Los Angeles gas station that he single-handedly transformed into a clandestine brothel for Hollywood's burgeoning tribe of closeted gay and bisexual professionals.
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The "gay fantasia on national themes," as it's subtitled, follows a series of characters, including Prior, who begins to receive celestial messages as he's battling AIDS; Roy Cohn, who tries to mask his AIDS as liver cancer; Louis, who abandons Prior when he needs him most; Roy's closeted Mormon protégé, Joe Pitt (Lee Pace); and Joe's pill-addled wife Harper (Denise Gough).
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This time around, every character — Prior Walter; his terminally neurotic boyfriend Louis (James McArdle); the pill-addicted Harper (Denise Gough); her closeted, Reagan-loving husband Joe (Lee Pace); Roy Cohn; Belize (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett), Prior and Cohn's shared nurse and confidant; the Angel (Amanda Lawrence); and everyone else — made me realize how honest and brutal Kushner can be on the feeling of abandonment.
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What saves "Jakob's Colors" from such bathos is that Hawdon creates a number of arresting scenes, as when Jakob, forced to flee his shelter and make for the Swiss border, finally gets a look at the two fugitives who've been closeted alongside him but who — for reasons it would be unfair to divulge — are now unable to join in his escape.
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Midroll, a podcast network that originally concentrated on improv comedy pieces and interview shows hosted by comics, expanded its scripted offerings this year with "Fruit," Issa Rae's tale of a closeted N.F.L. player; and "The Mysterious Secrets of Uncle Bertie's Botanarium," starring Jemaine Clement (of "Flight of the Conchords") as a kookily fictionalized version of the 18th-century botanist Lord Joseph Banks.
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She connects each stop and story by weaving in her own personal journey, from a closeted Mormon missionary and student at Brigham Young University to one of the nation's most prominent openly transgender reporters (who, while on the road for this very book in Texas, covered reactions to what she calls the "dystopian development" of Trump's tweeted ban on transgender troops).
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O.K., "Student of L.G.B.T.Q. history" is kind of a fancy term for a closeted 14-year-old furtively reading about leather bar etiquette and hanky codes (colored hankies were once used by some gay men to signal sexual interests) on GeoCities websites, but along the way I did manage to absorb a decent understanding of gay history in the United States.
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" In his new book, Mr. Branum describes the debate this set off in frank terms (he even conceded that he misrepresented the table), weaving it around a nuanced discussion of his relationship with the standup of Eddie Murphy, which made him love comedy but also taught him "the building blocks of homophobia that would keep me closeted and self-hating into my twenties.
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As the theory went, closeted black gay men were using women as unsuspecting "cover girls" to hide their sexuality and then infecting them with H.I.V. In my reporting for both The Times and Essence, I found no shortage of anecdotal accounts of H.I.V.-positive women who were infected by male partners who had been having sex with other men in secret.
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Special jury awards were given to Miles Joris-Peyrafitte's "As You Are," a teenage crime drama that drew attention at the festival for strong performances from its ensemble cast; Joe Seo, the star of "Spa Night," about a closeted teenager working at a Korean spa; and Melanie Lynskey, who returned to Sundance in the ensemble comedy "The Intervention," about fumbled efforts to stop a marriage.
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The first studio-made, teen-targeted romantic comedy to focus on a closeted gay protagonist coming out in high school, "Love, Simon" proves groundbreaking on so many levels, not least of which is just how otherwise familiar it all seems, from laugh-out-loud conversations in the school hallways to co-ed house parties where no one drives drunk, and no one gets past first base.
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The British certainly did have a way with salacious political scandals during this era (the 1989 movie "Scandal," about the Profumo affair and Christine Keeler, comes to mind), but this spare docudrama possesses a very different tone -- alternating between black comedy, melancholy, and a sobering historical reminder of what closeted gay life was like not so very long ago, even for the privileged and powerful.
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Others include Rooftop (Hill Harper), now an L.A. radio host; Inez (Quincy Tyler Bernstine), his furious ex-wife; Flip (Jimonn Cole), a closeted Wisconsin lawyer; Norca (Paola Lázaro), an addict spoiling for a fight; Edwin (Erick Betancourt), a building super who cares for Pinky (Maki Borden), his intellectually challenged but cheerful younger brother; and Balthazar (Joey Auzenne), the heavy-hearted detective investigating the case.
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That peace is something he's won after years of struggle—first as closeted gay kid growing up in 1950s industrial Britain, then through hated Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's contentious tenure in the 80s, weathering the 90s AIDS crisis, coming out live on air during an MTV broadcast in 183, and into the current day, when the lives of LGBTQ people remain under attack from the highest echelons of the ruling class.
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He became a gay-rights advocate, working with an organization for gay, lesbian and transgender teachers and serving as the grand marshal in an Atlanta parade for children with H.I.V. Farnsworth's story had another unforeseen consequence: It gave the screenwriter Paul Rudnick the idea for "In & Out," a 1997 farce about a closeted high-school teacher (Kevin Kline) outed by his former student (Matt Dillon) in an awards-show speech.
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"It was developed as a secret language in order to identify oneself to like-minded or similarly closeted homosexuals, a shorthand of arcane and coded, almost kabbalistic references and practices developed in order to operate safely apart and without fear of detection from a conservative and conventional world that could be aggressively hostile towards homosexuals, particularly effeminate males and masculine females," writes the artist and filmmaker Bruce LaBruce.
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He's gay and closeted, 18 years old, and pulled between his conservative and religious immigrant parents and his privileged American life as a Harvard-bound private school kid growing up in the affluent suburbs of Washington DC. He navigates the dating scene secretly, through his best friend and classmate Meredith, who puts aside her own romantic feelings for Niru to sign him up on the dating apps Tinder and Grindr.
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In the back your cab, you carry an aging conservative columnist ranting about leftist politics and their siege of traditional culture, a closeted undcover cop who feels increasingly alienated from his colleagues, an aging society matron whose life has been thrown into chaos by the collapse of her marriage, a disillusioned politician who has decided to leak all the secrets his party is keeping, and other archetypes of modern life in a cosmopolitan capital.
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I thought about why the digital artists gave Hudson a perpetually runny nose (gross), and how much Taylor Swift got paid to be in this movie, and why I found one of the cats so disturbingly sexy, and whether foreign markets will bother with subtitles given how little sense the dialogue and lyrics make, and the closeted teen boys who will feign disdain but secretly be thrilled when their family drags them to see Cats.
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