Garstka's beating, for instance, pushed him out of the closet.
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But when I came out of the closet, everything snowballed.
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It's around this time I came out of the closet.
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Her transition encouraged him to come out of the closet.
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Someday, even Pseudonymous Bosch may come out of the closet.
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The natural solution: Pull that Tux out of the closet.
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All right, let's get the skeletons out of the closet.
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My dad came out of the closet when I was 28.
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Joel gets Susie out of the closet and demands the money.
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"This is Bollywood's first step out of the closet," she said.
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"Roseanne is bringing conservative women out of the closet" https://t.
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Sooner or later, all the skeletons tumble out of the closet.
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No. Come out of the closet and say you're an atheist.
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Some popular figures, like Iceman, have finally come out of the closet.
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They just have to come out of the closet, so to speak.
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The Baton brought a lot of girls out of the closet, too.
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After years of public speculation, Kevin Spacey is out of the closet.
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And players don't have to be out of the closet to join.
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Waylon Smithers from The Simpsons has officially come out of the closet.
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I'd always been one, but now I was out of the closet.
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Sharma: I felt terrified, like I was coming out of the closet.
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I'm even thinking about pulling my vintage Levi's out of the closet.
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Having recently come out of the closet, she found the idea enthralling.
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I was living in Washington, and just coming out of the closet.
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Our relationship ended because she never managed to come out of the closet.
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Grab a flannel out of the closet (be sure to leave it unbuttoned).
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They can't come out of the closet because they're shamed by leftist fascism.
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But how did "coming out of the closet" become such a ubiquitous phrase?
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Out of the Closet has stores in Dallas, Seattle, Los Angeles, Columbus, and Miami.
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They could dig their tie-dyed shirts out of the closet while helping Clinton.
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Did Gianni Versace really come out of the closet in a 1995 Advocate profile?
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It sounds like maybe he&aposs come out of the closet as a partisan.
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What is Mac's journey this season now that he's fully out of the closet?
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God forbid you wanted to be an actor and be out of the closet.
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"Telling my boss was sort of like coming out of the closet," Thompson said.
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Here, he's safe—"There will be no monsters coming out of the closet," Lutz says.
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The idea excited me, as I pondered pulling my old SLR out of the closet.
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I was out of the closet, and my family and friends were supportive, even encouraging.
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" She added, "Being in this relationship is not about me coming out of the closet.
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Alan Diaz, photographer (from Elián documentary): I see out of the closet Elián and Donato.
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The door that led us out of the closet is only the first of many.
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A few have died here and there, and a few have come out of the closet.
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You helped me come out of the closet as a gay man with some conservative values.
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It was the familiar behavior of men in the process of coming out of the closet.
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These threats can make it particularly difficult for LGBTQ people to come out of the closet.
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"I will just come out of the closet here and say, This is fashion," he said.
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Summer is here again, and that means digging swimsuits and beach towels out of the closet.
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A lot of times I'll take everything out of the closet and put it away again.
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Buttigieg came out of the closet in 2015 and married his husband, Chasten, in June 2018.
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People who were afraid to call themselves a Republican are coming back out of the closet.
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When my brother came out of the closet, it wasn't a big deal for my family.
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At first, when I pulled it out of the closet, I thought it was a baseball bat.
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"If only she would support her son to come out of the closet," wrote the Instagram user.
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We were naming ourselves and identifying ourselves and finally out of the closet and open and radical.
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After I recovered from the shock, I crawled out of the closet, packed my suitcase, and left.
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Coming out of the closet as among the most important actors in American society boosts technology bosses.
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"It's time to bring it out of the closet and change the perception of it," she says.
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Graham said she "freaked out" and ran out of the closet, hoping no one would find out.
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Out of the Closet says 24 cents of every dollar collected goes to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
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Take Jodie Foster, who sort of came out of the closet in a rambling 2013 acceptance speech.
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"Coming out of the closet is talking about what we feel and what we experienced," Gonzalez said.
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He's similar to me in that I remember coming out of the closet and being like 'Great.
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I thought of my best friend, who came out of the closet to me on prom night.
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It's about helping the people that are still amid their alcoholism to come out of the closet.
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"Our job was to step out of the closet and become warriors and demand equality," Tyler says.
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I'm not sure I stepped out of the closet so much as the closet crumbled around me.
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You know, the gay community took a while to get out of the closet, it's socially acceptable now?
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Paul Rodriguez says he's received death threats after "coming out of the closet" in support of Donald Trump.
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"I think I brought more men out of the closet than anybody," Mr. Gauwloos said with a laugh.
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He's out of the ... You know the gay community took a while to get out of the closet.
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"But nothing changed after that conversation except all of us were out of the closet," Ms. Lynn recalled.
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Thousands of gay people who had come out of the closet in 2377 were swiftly pushed back in.
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As a result, there was no coming out of the closet for me; I never put myself in one.
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"This is the first day we've come out of the closet," Henry Chan joked in an interview with TechCrunch.
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They might encounter people "who are coming out of the closet now with their hate and racism," she says.
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Should one of Gwen Stefani's sons come out of the closet, the singer's love for him would not change.
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There was even a Tax Defense Partners booth, encouraging attendees to come out of the closet with their earnings.
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Last week, she pulled one of her favorite maternity dresses out of the closet for an outing in London.
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After spending years arming myself against the insidious gay agenda, whaddya know—Islam brought me out of the closet.
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In-the-closet Trump supporters because they can't come out of the closet because they're shamed by leftist fascism.
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Instead of digging the full-size vacuum out of the closet, tackle crevasses and smaller messes with a handheld.
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"I'm seeing more and more gay Chinese come out of the closet and live the lives they want," he said.
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That was around the same time I was coming out of the closet and coming to terms with my sexuality.
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They came out of the closet there is no journalism on the mainstream media left and it was absolutely shambolic.
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Any skeletons you'd like to tell us about before the pesky little things find their way out of the closet???
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I'll write you a check and let you hear all the bad things about you come out of the closet.
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"That was what allowed me to come out of the closet, because before that I wouldn't dare," she tells me.
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But once I came out of the closet, I was able to get in touch with guys my own age.
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It's time for the GOP to come out of the closet and make its members feel a sense of pride.
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They told VICE that they instantly realized they were attracted to each other—but neither was out of the closet.
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A notorious gay "propaganda" law Putin supports provides a legal framework for the crackdown of out-of-the-closet gays.
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Too often, LGBTQ actors come out of the closet only to discover that they can only play LGBTQ film roles.
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Today, her shop, Out of the Closet Vintage, sits in Tannersville — elevation about 703,000 feet, year-round population under 1,000.
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When I came out of the closet in 1978, I never imagined that I would get to be a mother.
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They also partner with the thrift store chain Out of the Closet, where you can get tested by a counselor.
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I've also known him as a gay who was afraid to step out of the closet and of Jewish descent.
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Still, for many LGBT Muslims, coming out of the closet to their families and religious communities can be a fraught decision.
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I embraced cannabis as part of my wellness routine and creative process, and came out of the closet as a consumer.
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Watch the YouTuber come out of the closet by literally coming out of a closet and drawing on a rainbow tattoo.
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I am a gay, out-of-the-closet activist for LGBT rights inside of my country and inside of my city.
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For Gonzalez, having escaped from the FARC was a chance to come out of the closet without fear of being killed.
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Danny is honest about his troubled past, and Alex starts to creep out of the closet he's occupied his whole life.
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It has also had the incidental effect of pushing some gay people in this increasingly Latino community out of the closet.
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Significantly, his victory coaxed mainstream Republican conservatives who had long suppressed their misgivings about neoconservative foreign policy out of the closet.
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"I was told, 'I didn't come out of the closet to date a boy who dresses like a girl,'" she said.
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But if you take something you haven't worn for a long time out of the closet, you are AIRing it out.
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Her personal story, of embracing strength and being pushed out of the closet and suffering the repercussions, was also tremendously consequential.
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With her wedding just a few weeks away, I've taken her rug out of the closet and begun contemplating the future.
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Soon Maresca had an exhibit ("Out of the Closet: American Hangers") and an accompanying write-up in the New York Times.
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This reform movement is that chance -- if only it can be brought out of the closet and set into the light.
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It would have been super nice if coming out of the closet was enough to fix everything and shed all that shame.
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It's funny: I feel like it's a second coming out of the closet when I tell people in fashion that I'm religious.
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Expectations were high for Walden's memoir, which encompasses figure skating, coming out of the closet, the discovery of artistic passion, and more.
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But occasionally pulling it out of the closet lets me fondly remember a time when we were all a little less connected.
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In any other show, this would be a metaphor for coming out of the closet or being true to yourself or something.
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In "Smile," he reveals that his mother came out of the closet as a lesbian and that he's extremely happy for her.
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This gave me the strength to get out of the closet, continue to outperform myself as a professional and become a mother.
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He was just out of the closet and here he had a man, albeit a young man, who was mad for him.
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"I started to meet gay people and slowly came out of the closet after being married for three years," Walker told me.
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"The bigots are coming out of the closet," he said, citing episodes like the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., last summer.
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"Out of the closet and into the limelight," says Lê. The duo is also looking to boost the visibility of local makers.
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RuPaul Charles: The queen of drag RuPaul Charles was a key figure who brought drag out of the closet and into the mainstream.
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If you played an instrument as a kid, it might be time to dig it out of the closet and start practicing again.
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Empress Honey Carolina had a fundraiser for the Imperial Court called the Closet Ball; a coming-out-of-the-closet type of thing.
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He came out of the closet in full after the Stonewall riots in 1968, but paid a price for his refusal to sneak.
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When it comes to being "in" or "out of" the closet at work, things aren't as black and white as you may think.
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James hauled his jump shot, a tetchy instrument in these playoffs, out of the closet; he hit 4 of 8 3-point shots.
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We had to make all the chairs easily stackable so when the Muslims come, they take the prayer rugs out of the closet.
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Back when the festival was in full swing, he was based on the West Coast and not fully out of the closet professionally.
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The world of online games helped me out of the closet, only to attempt a coup and usher me back in moments later.
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And for a social club that relied on secrecy to protect its members who weren't out of the closet, that was a major problem.
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I came out of my mom's body, I came out of the closet, and now I feel like this is my third coming out.
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I wait for a nice day each May, take my pink cleaning bucket out of the closet and fill it with sponges and scrubbers.
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Then, for reasons only Spacey and his PR team know, the actor decided that was the right time to come out of the closet.
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That sum will fall substantially in the coming months: In addition, watch for fiscal skeletons to come out of the closet at inopportune times.
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I think I saw one note from an editor, something about not being sure if Elton John was out of the closet or not.
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"Because of the scientific research, it's given a lot of people permission to come out of the closet [as psilocybin users]," he told VICE.
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In that speech, he described his struggle with coming out of the closet and challenged Vice President Mike Pence, an opponent of gay rights.
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"Fans tell stories that they've been able to come out of the closet with their family, that Aristemo helped them come out," he said.
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"I was worried about my safety, which is why it's taken me so long to come out of the closet," said Barbara Rae-Venter.
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In "Leave to Remain" Alex and Obi are both out of the closet, but have never really talked about it with their distant parents.
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Being raised Muslim, I didn't celebrate Christmas at all until I came out of the closet and left the house over 16 years ago.
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When Savoy Howe moved to Toronto from New Brunswick in the late 203s to pursue her theatre degree, she also came out of the closet.
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"The only thing I knew how to do when I came out of the closet was to be invisible and to hate myself," she says.
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He eventually accepted that he was gay — and that it was okay — but never believed he would be able to come out of the closet.
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Shake those skeletons out of the closet, or a sun-Jupiter meetup could do the dirty work for you in the final third of August.
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While Simon unjustly gets pushed out of the closet, he also receives a Nicholas Sparks-level love story once he does acknowledge his sexuality publicly.
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Nico immediately pushes Levi away, explaining if he had known Levi wasn't out of the closet and more experienced he "would've never" made a move.
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"I said, 'when I come back to Vatican City you gotta take my painting out of the closet and hang it back up'," she says.
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My boyfriend pulls our camping supplies out of the closet while I do some food prep for the meals we're charged with over the weekend.
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"Sanders did a really great and tremendous job of opening the conversation and helping us get out of the closet a little bit," Maisano said.
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Coming out of the closet to acknowledge financial struggles is the first step toward everyone realizing that financial plights are more universal than once thought.
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In one of her plays, she writes about a virulent anti-gay campaigner whose son happens to be gay and comes out of the closet.
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One of the things we wanted to make sure was, just because Mac's out of the closet, that doesn't mean he's redeemed in any way.
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Another told me that she sought out a print copy of The Times to give to her son, fresh out of the closet, as inspiration.
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"We didn't counsel women to come out of the closet and dissolve marriages — unless that happened to be their goal," Ms. Kurtz recalled in 2002.
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Like folding chairs: When guests arrive, they come out of the closet, off the wall hooks or out from under the bed in a snap.
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Millennials may not be more likely to be L.G.B.T., but their increased willingness to come out of the closet is driving the community's numbers up.
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He was merely interested in bringing certain feelings and practices out of the closet, and presenting them in a way that was beautiful and without shame.
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On the other side are the liberals, who demand that the church cease condemning homosexual acts and allow gay priests to step out of the closet.
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Drama is about conflict, not comfort, of course, but what an ambivalent welcome such plays offered "sensitive" young men: Out of the closet, into the fire!
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But the first two decades of Out of the Closet were spent in Bridgehampton, in a two-story white country house in the center of town.
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TAYLOR I was from a very small town, I had just come out of the closet, and it was very proto-radical faerie, without the hallucinogens.
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Then he'd calm down and, sounding very lucid, ask me to fetch his suit out of the closet, and his shoes, and help him get dressed, quickly.
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Fran Drescher was married for 20 years to her high school sweetheart Peter Marc Jacobson, who came out of the closet two years after their marriage ended.
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He also suggested the "small minority" of people who think Trump's election means they can step out of the closet as racists should step right back in.
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In March, as her days on daytime were dwindling, Rosie came out of the closet to protest a law in Florida that banned adoption by gay couples.
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"We found that the corrupt official wanted to come out of the closet and meet with one person, either the architect or the interior designer," Mintz said.
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The writers see themselves as an oppressed group, with one playfully describing the process of making the film as their opportunity to "come out of the closet".
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It was hard for her to get back into therapy, because she was worried a therapist would tell her she needed to come out of the closet.
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But the show didn't forget about the recently out-of-the-closet Jack McPhee, who got to have his very first kiss with Ethan, a college student.
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A show that they loved was going to have a character coming out of the closet — and then he took it back, and they were legitimately upset.
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He is someone who doesn't want to come out of the closet, and he builds a persona — this comedian who's always making jokes about women and sex.
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Some are gay in a country where it is nearly impossible to come out of the closet, and he longs to tell them that it gets better.
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The weather has not been cool enough to wear that scarf you've taken out of the closet or to grab that hot chocolate you've been dreaming about.
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"Who knows what could fall out of the closet over there?" said one person, reflecting the concerns of many candidates who have spoken to Uber, including Whitman.
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The Chinese ceremony is important to Liu because his parents only accepted his sexuality last year, although he has been out of the closet for almost two decades.
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More and more sex workers are coming out of the closet and sharing stories about their lived experiences, such as the sex-worker-written web series Mercy Mistress.
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"The creation of the control board took our status as a colony out of the closet," says Ana Rivera Lassén, a leader of the movement opposing the board.
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Celebrities were inching out of the closet and landing salaciously sapphic Vanity Fair covers next to Cindy Crawford, or coming out on the cover of (where else?) Time.
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The only time I was in the closet was to go in there and pick out a dress and come out of the closet and put it on.
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You'd do the warmup activities, jog around the room, and then you'd wait with bated breath to see what the gym teachers would roll out of the closet.
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Bowie "came out" as gay in a 1972 interview long before the likes of Freddie Mercury or Elton John had even hinted at coming out of the closet.
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In 2014, Gawker reported that Smith wanted to come out of the closet but that Ailes told him that wouldn't go over well with the network's conservative audience.
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The precinct has reportedly gotten the machines out of the closet and is working to have them set up and running soon so they can reopen the precinct.
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Reporter's Notebook I remember my therapist's advice when I was a 22-year-old, not yet out-of-the-closet gay man living in Washington — uncertain, unhappy, unready.
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We meet several students in thrall to a charismatic teacher, Mr. Kingsley, a ponderous creature of the theater—he prefers "theatre"—who lives bravely out of the closet.
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Some characters with non-straight relationships in their back stories have made it to the movies, but those details have not yet made it out of the closet.
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One of the last things I did before leaving the home we had made together was pull the five-foot portrait of our faces out of the closet.
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Ironically, for me, the most revealing part of Kelly's explosive comments was their illumination of her true face as an out-of-the-closet racist, in my opinion.
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In a country still divided by civil war-era rivalries, dragging the skeletons of the past out of the closet as Lane does is not without its dangers.
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Jeff begins feeling the heat of possibly being dragged out of the closet after he saves a younger gay Navy man from a near-deadly beating in the barracks.
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Since coming out of the closet at age 18 he's made remarkable efforts to share his own personal narrative with the world — as a journalist, author, filmmaker, and producer.
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Although the average age that people come out of the closet has dropped significantly in recent years, LGBTQ teens are often faced with cruelty and bullying from their peers.
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We got the hip-hop trio at LAX, and they were doing some pretty intense backpedaling on seemingly harsh comments they made about Makonnen coming out of the closet.
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But the hush-hush nature of stalking your potential love's socials makes it difficult to know when you can come out of the closet and follow them for real.
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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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If that happens enough times, this high-end umbrella stroller might just turn into the one stroller that gets pulled out of the closet more often than the others.
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On YouTube I was always out of the closet, and it was one of the first times I was subjected to people who didn't necessarily love me for me.
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In response to this Spacey came out of the closet in a statement, a move that was derided by the LGBTQ community as an attempt to mask the allegations.
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But after Netflix users found it under the LGBTQ category, they rewrote it to tell the story of a man who's too scared to come out of the closet.
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If you'd like to help get the Babadook out of the closet and into — well, that's your business — you can order one off Indiegogo for $60 plus $8 shipping.
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The change in leadership removes a key overhang around succession, but we could still see a few old skeletons tumbling out of the closet this quarter or the next.
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Fallon hilariously brought some skeletons out of the closet last Tuesday when he reminded Biel about how she once dissed her husband's boyband in a 1999 interview with E!
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There are plenty of recycled plots: coming out of the closet, meeting internet strangers, teen domestic violence, sexual assault, and, of course, the family drama staple of teen pregnancy.
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Years later, and after tireless efforts by India's LGBT community, celebrities came out of the closet to step up to make their pleas heard before the country's Supreme Court.
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"I said, let's pull it out of the closet, let's lay it out there, let's deal with it, let's dissect it," he said in a 2000 interview with NPR.
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Between her boozy culinary adventures on her My Drunk Kitchen series and candid confessionals on coming out of the closet, Hannah Hart has always appeared to be an open book.
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It's when this became a mass movement — from groups of 10 to 20 people in every state to thousands of people coming out of the closet to change American society.
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I told him I'd take the unit, and he surprised me when he pulled the original box out of the closet and packaged everything up like it was brand new.
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Any closet is built out of a need to hide desire; even after coming out of The Closet, the major gay one, life can contain any number of smaller closets.
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Mind you, this was 2009, when coming out videos, a genre in which the subject publicly comes out of the closet or offers coming out advice, were beginning to emerge.
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He came out of the closet and admitted to both the process addiction of sex and cocaine with all of the concomitant risks to his career and even his life.
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"Nobody has really come out of the closet, if you will," said Matthew A. Karnes, the founder of Green Wave Advisors, which provides data and analysis of the marijuana business.
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As The L Word's title suggests, being proudly out of the closet was still taboo when the show aired, and many of the show's fans were tuning in privately themselves.
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But despite recent victories for gay equality and a broadening conception of what gay men can act or look like, few professional male athletes have come out of the closet.
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And then when she got divorced, came out of the closet, married a white Frenchwoman and adopted two white children, her perspective and stories expanded and became far more idiosyncratic.
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"This was the most important event at CPAC; Trump came out of the closet in the sense of revealing he is a conservative," said former Virginia GOP Chair Jeffrey Frederick.
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The two guys on a date sitting next to me even teared up during the movie's third act, as Simon finally, painstakingly comes out of the closet to his loved ones.
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He may not have been out of the closet when I first felt our kinship, but neither was I. In my case, that didn't last long — especially on account of Michael.
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A nimble 21-year-old from Buffalo, NY, who had just come out of the closet, Cowley moved in 1971 to study electronic music at the City College of San Francisco.
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The same beauty norms that had dragged me through a lifetime of self-esteem yo-yoing, and disordered eating, and shame no one deserves followed me right out of the closet.
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" In May 2012, Parsons quietly came out of the closet after a profile in the New York Times matter-of-factly described him as "gay and in a 10-year relationship.
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I can probably buy a plunger in the new place, the world's full of places you can buy toilet plungers, but I figure I should move it out of the closet.
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"After I was released from jail, I had people as young as 16 and 17 coming up to me saying, 'you helped me to get out of the closet,' " Tolokonnikova said.
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These days, most of the gay characters I meet are on network TV and already out of the closet, even admired by their straight colleagues as players on their sexual field.
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" And in a 2014 sit-down with Pride Source, Parton said simply: "I am not gay, but if I were I would be the first one running out of the closet.
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"Coming out of the closet didn't turn out the way I expected," he said by phone after his presentation at Industria Superstudio during New York Men's Day, which opened fashion week.
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"Part of what has kept me standing and clear-headed is knowing that there are kids out there who are in the process of coming out of the closet," she said.
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Yes, we need to come out of the closet to defeat those who don't accept L.G.B.T. people, and still go to Pride to show that we exist and aren't going anywhere.
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Hunter, who first endorsed Mike Huckabee, praised Trump's "guts" and "fortitude" and predicted to Politico that other lawmakers might soon start to "come out of the closet" in support of him.
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And finally, army captain Roberts meets Cooper on a plane—who is heading home to see his boyfriend, sports man Dane (who has recently made headlines by coming out of the closet).
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Joel Grey Grey wowed Oscar as the Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret – he won Best Supporting Actor in 1972 – but the Broadway legend didn't publicly come out of the closet until 2015.
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"To Colton Haynes and to the LGBTQ youth, especially those who have embraced our show, I have no right to dictate how or when anybody comes out of the closet," Galvin continued.
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She said a friend was ultimately the one who helped her make her decision to come out of the closet to inspire her fans who might be struggling through the same problems.
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Ever since #MeToo got rolling and people started sharing their experiences, I keep going back to this one thing that happened with me after I had just come out of the closet.
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In presenting the Globe to DeGeneres, the "Saturday Night Live" star Kate McKinnon spoke about what it meant to her, as a young lesbian, to see DeGeneres come out of the closet.
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Rose, 33, responded on Twitter, writing that she found the idea to be "the funniest most ridiculous thing I've ever read," and that she'd come out of the closet at age 12.
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Grace & Frankie's senior citizen newlyweds Robert Hanson (Martin Sheen) and Sol Bergstein (Sam Waterston) consistently tackle questions of what it means to be newly out of the closet with needy, complicated adult children.
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But as Holder finishes his investigation, the big question becomes: Is this as bad as it gets, or do the worst of Uber's skeletons have yet to show themselves out of the closet?
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What I wasn't prepared for though, was the limited stereotypes that would come with coming out; the expectations that would attach themselves to me, like moths, on my way out of the closet.
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What finally ushered me out of the closet came a couple of years after high school graduation, when my best friend's brother, the former drummer in Valencia, died in a heartbreaking motorcycle accident.
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But there is so much more to 83-year-old Grey's career in his new memoir Master of Ceremonies, Grey recounts his story of getting onto the stage and out of the closet.
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In going through my travel stuff, I realize I need to find the European power adapter and dig it out of the closet to find that I am missing the U.K.-specific adapter.
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But it would be another three years before he fully came out of the closet, a move that was emotionally freeing yet resulted in near total excommunication from members of his former colony.
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You saw it at the Golden Globes in 2013, when she accepted an honorary award with a raw, rambling speech that set the Internet ablaze: Had she just come out of the closet?
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Yes, the winter sport that involves ice, round rocks and a good deal of sweeping has a passionate following among those who have come out of the closet, taking their brooms with them.
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" But it took them both some time, he added, to come to terms with being in a relationship: "We had big egos and neither one of us was even out of the closet.
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I owe a lot to the generations before me who risked far more coming out of the closet, and others who don't have the luxury of contemplating how they might share their identity.
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Her patients include F. Murray Abraham, as a man who refuses to get out of bed, and Maulik Pancholy, as a man fresh out of the closet but no less lonely for it.
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His intimate conversations turned the garage into a confessional booth for comics, one where Todd Glass came out of the closet and Carlos Mencia and Dane Cook addressed accusations that they stole jokes.
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In an appearance on the HBO celebrity talk show The Shop, Lil Nas X fielded questions from his fellow celebrity guests about why he decided to come out of the closet last June.
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"Take Me Out," which imagined the repercussions of a major-league baseball player coming out of the closet, will return to Broadway in the spring for the first time since its 2003 premiere.
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He is well-connected both in Hollywood and on Broadway; earlier this year, he hosted the Tony Awards, making tongue-in-cheek references to his own refusal to come out of the closet.
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It seems so long ago, but it has been only a week since Mr. West came out of the closet as the same-dragon-loving, Trump-supporting, slave-shaming, alt-fact fire breather.
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Coming out of the closet is crucial and necessary to accepting who you are, but coming to terms with what has been hiding inside the closet is an even bigger step to take.
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The writer-director Mike Mills's last movie, "Beginners," was a lightly comic, fictionalized weepie about his father, who came out of the closet in his mid-70s when his son was an adult.
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"It was always pretty clear that he was going to be coming out of the closet," said Ms. Jacob, who refers to Kuhn as "hubby," even though she is engaged to someone else.
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She had just come out of the closet, and had graduated from Washington College on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with a degree in French and humanities with a specialty in medieval studies.
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He seemed to make the space around him both consecrated and profane as he performed his text and the soundtrack switched to a conversation between two men about coming out of the closet.
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" Fans have gone wild in response to the videos of Smith's proclamation at the concert over the weekend, with one user writing on Twitter, "Jaden Smith just came out of the closet and omggdhbsfhsnnal.
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Several of Mike Pompeo's skeletons are creeping out of the closet with less than 24 hours to go before the Secretary of State nominee's scheduled appearance in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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The first couple of episodes tell the story of Kouta, a teen who is depressed because he doesn't feel he can come out of the closet as a fan of the Sanrio character Pompompurin.
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I was a teenager when the first rumors that Ellen DeGeneres might be a lesbian, and that her sitcom character on the show Ellen might come out of the closet too, began to circulate.
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"It's like the boogeyman's come back out of the closet and those things that used to be are now being brought to the forefront once again, and that's what really scares me," Cash said.
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It's indisputable that anti-gay bigotry still prevailed throughout the decade, but though it is rarely mentioned, AIDS played a large role in bringing gay people out of the closet and into the mainstream.
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While living here, I have changed careers, come out of the closet, managed a long recuperation from brain surgery, started meditating, and watched a dear friend die of AIDS in my apartment's front bedroom.
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An alleyway late at night, or a boarded up house could be described as "dodgy," but the word can be used to describe anything suspicious looking, like this shoe creeping out of the closet.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Britain's gay and trans community should press for targets to propel LGBT+ workers out of the closet and into the boardroom, one of the world's top openly bisexual executives has said.
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It's a potted history, and one that dips proverbially "in" and "out" of the closet—which is to say that, while some films are overtly LGBT, others have the potential to be read that way.
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Most famously, she came out of the closet in 1997 while still the star of a primetime network sitcom, and weathered both the ensuing controversy and her show's cancellation to survive and thrive in Hollywood.
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Years ago, in 20063, I had a deal with A&E to put a show together called Coming Out, where we were actually going to take celebrities out of the closet and follow their journey.
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I thought to myself: If many Ugandans were to meet as many gay people as possible and have a personal relationship, there would be a lot more Ugandan gay people coming out of the closet.
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While I did feel the moisture build up within my undershirt, at the end of the day, my dress shirt looked the same as when I pulled it out of the closet earlier that morning.
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Joanne, a 66-year-old from Brooklyn, warns of the importance of encouraging people to come out of the closet, and says online dating is just as shitty at 66 as it is at 26.
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Many gay men and lesbians suspected that people who called themselves bisexual were taking a timid, untruthful half-step out of the closet or were adventurers who'd return in short order to the heterosexual fold.
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"Millions of L.G.B.T. people have come out of the closet and they are able to pursue dreams they weren't to pursue a decade ago," said Camilla Taylor, the director of constitutional litigation at Lambda Legal.
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During the Bush administration, he argued that "people are now coming out of the closet on the word 'empire,'" because of then-President Bush's own foreign policy efforts to remake the world in an American image.
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Even among gay men who have been out of the closet for over half their lives, a Rubicon I'm fast approaching myself, it's easy to forget the ways shame and fear of exposure have shaped us.
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One group of ghost enthusiasts wants to help queer paranormal history come out of the closet, and they're the subject of Queer Ghost Hunters, a new YouTube series directed by San Francisco documentary maker Stu Maddux.
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The possibility of getting even a little money out of those items makes for an added incentive to let them go — even if, once it's out of the closet, you realize something won't meet resale standards.
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For the millions who marched in the streets the weekend after the presidential inauguration as a part of the Women's March this should be the next thing that gets those pink hats out of the closet.
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"After the Pulse shooting, Muslims were coming out of the closet across the United States, and the Muslim community, in public and private, was grappling with the issue in a much more honest way," Grewal said.
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We put our bodies on the line at the FDA, and in so doing, we came out of the closet and shattered the myth of the homosexual of being weak, timid, afraid—unwilling to fight back.
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Chuck Liddell now realizes the video he made to congratulate a man for coming out of the closet after 40 years was most likely a homophobic prank ... and the UFC legend is really upset about it.
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Successful campaigns have included those from Subaru, which courted the lesbian community with Martina Navratilova in its targeted ads, and Miller Genuine Draft, whose "It's about getting out" tagline brought it out of the closet in 1993.
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I actually don't remember much from my childhood, but I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I saw him come out of the closet on national television during an interview with CNN.
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Here's a refresher: Frank Underwood's (Kevin Spacey) skeletons were dragged out of the closet, his and his wife Claire's (Robin Wright) presidential ticket looked all but lost, and the two watch ICO terrorists kill an American hostage.
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Temer distanced himself from Cunha and refused to throw him political lifelines, leading to the now constant speculation that Cunha will pull all possible PMDB skeletons out of the closet should he be granted a plea bargain.
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As a child, I found them absolutely terrifying, the type of toy to become sentient in the wee hours of the morning, creep out of the closet, and hypnotize you into committing a series of horrible things.
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It's about what happens when Niru, the son of wealthy and conservative Nigerian-American parents in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., comes out of the closet to Meredith, a preppy white girl who's in love with him.
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If all of a sudden they said, "Well, hey, let's be nice and sweet to Mac because he's out of the closet," it would not be true to the show and would not be true to humanity.
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Instead, she gives Danny this moment to be terrified about both being forced out of the closet and possibly losing a great friend — and in turn, gives Lady Bird a moment to reconsider her knee-jerk anger.
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The Ethicist The patriarch of our large family came out of the closet as an elderly man nearing the end of his life; he now has a husband who is much younger, whom I will call Tim.
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This thoughtful, honest, historically textured and valuable book offers a detailed and current syllabus of work on the social and cultural meanings of colorism around the world and brings colorism "out of the closet," as Tharps writes.
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Why shell out the big bucks building new stars, after all, when you can just pull old stars out of the closet, dust 'em off, and chuck 'em in the ring together for the same end result?
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"Finding Dory" might feature the voice of Ellen DeGeneres, who became the first lesbian TV star to come out of the closet in 1997, but it joins the rest of the summer blockbusters that ignore the LGBT community.
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"Looking was a huge deal in my evolution as a person and as an actor because it's one thing to come out of the closet publicly, but it's another thing to be so gay on TV," he said.
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I was out of the closet, but I didn't know how it would feel to represent my identity with pride (which still feels untenable at 29, as an accomplished transgender woman with a fulfilling career and personal life).
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For Ariana, who had just come out of the closet after years of wrestling with her sexuality, seeing Jax and Brittany seemingly feign ignorance about the pastor's derogatory social media posts was triggering — why couldn't they understand that?
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But in its most recent two seasons the show has smartly expanded Matthew's story line, depicting the life of a precocious queer adolescent who has a propensity for the dramatic and is almost entirely out of the closet.
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"I think it's one thing to hide … and it's one thing to come out of the closet in a public statement … But I've always done me and never been shy … and have been vocal about it," Tortorella, 27, said.
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Coming out of the closet is by no means the point or the climax of the book; Spinning is rather about what lurks in the dimness of ourselves, of our desires, of our interactions, even of the page itself.
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Jose Antonio Vargas: As a 38-year-old gay man who came out of the closet when I was 18, I'm proud and grateful to live in a time when being homophobic is, for the most part, culturally unacceptable.
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Apology tours for sexual misconduct are practically rote at this point: Transgressors get plenty of airtime to beg for forgiveness for touching butts, to come out of the closet, to recommend a supposedly great pizza dough cinnamon roll recipe.
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" Osbourne wouldn't go into detail about which other celebrities she believes are pretending to be gay, because she thinks "outing somebody in that way is just as bad as outing somebody who has not come out of the closet.
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" After trading several emails in which he revealed his wish to be out of the closet by the age of 30, Jay asked, "In your opinion, do you think I'm a worthless person for putting myself in this position?
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Her band—bassist, guitarist, drummer—shredded, but she was always the most commanding figure onstage, dressed unpretentiously in a cropped T-shirt and partially sequined skirt that might have been plucked out of the closet of anyone her age.
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Just as Ford was creaking the door open and empowering others to come out of the closet with their own stories, Republicans on the committee rushed to slam it back shut and secure its closure with enmity if necessary.
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That being said, this season we have a great episode with Frank and Mac that deals with Mac's sexuality and Frank's discomfort around him now that he's out of the closet, where he does learn something by the end.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Writing about the everyday life of his gay protaganist Mohanaswamy, Indian author Vasudhendra was acutely aware of the fact that he himself had not yet found the courage to come out of the closet.
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In a generally temperate place like Germany, it wouldn't be worth the hassle and expense of installing an AC, Mishra said, but a cooler would be easy to roll out of the closet in the event of a freak heat wave.
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Some guys take longer to come out of the closet than others, and some have more business interests than others, but I think there are a lot more guys involved in cannabis and passionate about cannabis than are public about it.
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She walks into something she doesn't really know anything about and [inadvertently] ruins Patricia's life, and the lives of her children by thinking she's doing the right thing [and letting her kids out of the closet where Patricia has them trapped.
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As an advocacy group, NAMBLA sought to turn sex between men and boys of literally all ages into a civil rights issue, get pederasts to come out of the closet, and show North America that boy-lovers are people too.
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A publicist with more than 30 years experience, Bragman is known for helping celebrity clients including country singer Chely Wright, Bewitched star Dick Sargent, and more recently, Michael Sam—the NFL's first openly gay football player—come out of the closet.
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In her hilarious address to Tulane's class of 2009, TV's Ellen DeGeneres used her own story of publicly coming out of the closet as a lesson in being true to yourself as the only path to finding purpose in life.
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In an interview with The Domenick Nati Show on Wednesday, the Chrisley Knows Best star addressed rumors that he hasn't come out of the closet and admitted that it doesn't bother him that people continue to ask about his sexuality.
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A recurring confession from the researchers Ms Marchant meets is that they fear for their academic reputation if they study alternative treatments (one describes the experience as coming "out of the closet"; "Everyone looked at me sort of funny," says another).
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Who could have guessed in the 179s when civil rights became law that a new century would bring white supremacy tiki-torching out of the closet and turn the idea that black lives matter, so beyond obvious, into a battle cry?
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Who could have guessed in the 1960s when civil rights became law that a new century would bring white supremacy tiki-torching out of the closet and turn the idea that black lives matter, so beyond obvious, into a battle cry?
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" These "defining challenge" have always been around but never faced until now, which make it easier for a to "come out of the closet" or even to talk to others even, though they may not be the same "race or ethnicity.
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She had just come out of the closet (Samantha is transgender) and her parents sent her to a psychiatrist, who she says had an agenda and put her on antidepressant medication that was wreaking havoc on her body and mind.
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Who could have guessed in the 5353s when civil rights became law, that a new century would bring white supremacy tiki-torching out of the closet and turn the idea that black lives matter, so beyond obvious, into a battle cry?
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Who could have guessed in the 1960s when civil rights became law, that a new century would bring white supremacy tiki-torching out of the closet and turn the idea that black lives matter, so beyond obvious, into a battle cry?
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He planned his death for the end of his athletic career until people in the Kansas City Chiefs organization helped him come out of the closet, bringing new life to a fully realized, fully queer, fully valid version of him.
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I'd pull a V-neck dress out of the closet and realize I could not wear it because nature and genetics had conspired to give me the neck of a 69-year-old, which, coincidentally, is the age on my passport.
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Now at the decade's end, more than 22017 countries have established marriage equality, transgender people have gained legal protections in several places for the first time, and a social revolution has brought LGBTQ people out of the closet across the globe.
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Who could have guessed in the 20153s when civil rights became law that a new century would bring white supremacy tiki-torching out of the closet and turn the idea that black lives matter, so beyond obvious, into a battle cry?
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Those in critically acclaimed films—like In & Out (forced out of the closet), As Good As It Gets (a victim of a gay bashing), and The Talented Mr. Ripley (a psycho killer)—hardly painted modern homosexuality in the best light.
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Into the closet went this topic, and out of the closet came the avalanche of statistics that ultimately pushed her, mercifully, back into the cave from whence she came, hopefully with a trap door opening to send her back to her neighboring Russia.
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The joyful end-of-event ritual pointed to the phrase, "coming out of the closet," which is commonly used to indicate that someone has started telling people that they're gay, bisexual, transgender, or any other identity that's not 100% straight and cisgender.
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What they see are American Muslims, but American Muslims are lucky because they can do things that many Muslims around the world can't, like marry outside the religion or leave their faith or come out of the closet or write a secular blog.
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But if someone would give me a pen and a paper and I were to travel to some places in America or Britain, I could get you a lot of stories about gays that cannot come out of the closet in those countries.
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Good Trouble obviously thrives on its steamy love triangles (Callie-Gael-Jaime!) and complex relationships like the one also spotlighted in "Doble Quince" when newly out-of-the-closet Alice deals with her partner Joey's decision to be defined as non-binary.
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Daley is one of 47 publicly out-of-the-closet as LGBT athletes competing this year, a record-breaking number, according to Outsports, which has kept track of athletes who have announced their sexuality to the media for every summer Olympics since 2008.
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Many of the people who died were unidentifiable, not only because the fire scorched their bodies, but also because, despite the celebration of gay liberation, many gay men were not out of the closet and used fake IDs and aliases in gay bars.
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It's the late seventies, a time when long-dead artists and writers are being yanked out of the closet to have their covert sexualities proudly reclaimed, and though Paul gets much of the Valance story right, there's much that he gets wrong, too.
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Perhaps it will help other Roseannes to come out of the closet, and just maybe we will all get back to respecting one another's political views instead of seeking to demean those we oppose — and that will make for a healthier democracy.
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You can predict that every 20 years the economy will fall apart: the minks come out of the closet, and then comes collapse, unemployment, homelessness, in some instances political movements demanding federal intervention to support people who are down on their luck.
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Who could have guessed in the 21983s, when civil rights became law, that a new century would bring white supremacy tiki torching out of the closet and turn the idea that black lives matter, so beyond obvious, into a desperate battle cry?
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Outsiderness was McCullers's great theme, one that's inextricable from the quest for identity and self-definition, and while none of her protagonists were out of the closet, it's hard to read her work now and not see queerness as a central part.
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He was 33 when he came out of the closet, meaning that even as a young adult his years of experience with love, or to use a military term, his "training age," as he put it in his book, was essentially zero.
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" Angelo, who said the Log Cabin Republicans had a spike in membership and social media followers in 2016, believes that this greater G.O.P. openness largely explains why increasing numbers of young conservatives are coming out of the closet and "speaking their minds.
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I came out of the closet before I had started puberty, not because I wanted to, or because I had independently identified my sexual orientation, but because I was enduring social abuse every day as classmates verbally accosted me for being feminine.
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" Part of creating that connection with her audiences and fans was recording a YouTube video last year for Pride Month, in which she walked "people through my journey of self-realization — abusive relationships, suicide attempts and finally coming out of the closet and ultimately, survival.
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"I DIDN'T even come out of the closet as a Democrat until the primary," says Molly Clark, a genial retired Presbyterian minister working to get out the vote for Doug Jones (pictured left), the Democrat in Alabama running for a Senate seat on December 12th.
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So we would do these little scenes with people in order ... So like if there was a great piece of archival, we wanted to be with one of our characters when he got the great piece of archival out of the closet or whatever.
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The conversation between Saltzman and interviewer Reddish is illuminating and poignant, frequently returning to Saltzman's experience as a young gay man in the early '22014s, one finding his way out of the closet just as the AIDS epidemic was beginning to be widely understood.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A young man comes out of the closet on a dating show, while a drag queen belts out Bollywood hits in a singing competition - both aired on Indian television programs in the past month, but would have been unthinkable until recently.
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As long as politics, however it applies to Silicon Valley, be it people coming out of the closet as secret bigots and whatnot or visas and whatever else, I think maybe there would be where the Venn diagram would overlap and would draw commentary, per chance?
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"Our goal is not only to gain acceptance as much in Mexican society but in the gay players that don't know how to accept themselves," says Pineda, who came out of the closet when he moved to Mexico City to go to college when he was 21.
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Said by the music photographer Leee Black Childers to be out of the closet before he was ever in, this Harvard Law dropout was a mainstay in Andy Warhol's Factory scene (we see him in the 1965 film "Space") and stumbled into reporting almost by accident.
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Depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder came out of the closet, if gingerly, and the generation that came of age during this time — people now in their 40s, give or take — did so in a culture that no longer automatically presumed that depression was a character flaw.
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The importance of planning "I am no expert on death trends, but I do know from the growing popularity of death cafes and the emergence of death doulas that death is coming out of the closet, if you will," said Ashton Applewhite, author and an anti-ageism activist.
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I think a lot of people of color have trouble coming out of the closet because you see this depiction of people coming out, but they're always white and it scares you even more because it's like: Well what will happen if I come out to my Mexican mother?
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Unlike To All the Boys, however, which purposely stayed away from the conventional tale of identity as a burden, Love, Simon was stuck — like many other LGBT films this year, as Adam Vary pointed out — in the usual convention of representing queerness through stories about coming out of the closet.
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For so long both institutionalized and internalized homophobia has meant that many older LGBT public figures have slowly and painfully inched their way out of the closet for years, if they come out at all — such that somebody getting to the point of publicly embracing their identity has been a big deal.
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That plotline would have been savage AF. In some ways, that very scenario can be the competitive milieu gay men find themselves in once they step out of the closet: a vicious, body comparison tournament in which they are pitted against their friends, frenemies, potential hook-ups, and even their significant others.
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Gilman cites contemporary examples to make the argument for refusing transparency as a primary mode of being: the misuse of White empathy for Black subjects; the refusal to explain oneself constituting an essential aspect of privilege; the countervailing embrace of secrecy in queer communities versus the emancipatory action of coming out of the closet.
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Mr. Lewis, a former Unilever executive, said in April that the company was turning around its business, swinging to a pretax profit of £162 million in its latest financial year, after booking a £6.4 billion loss a year earlier — the largest in its history — when Mr. Lewis dragged the company's skeletons out of the closet.
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" In "Hats Off to Halford," he commended Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford for coming out of the closet in a metal scene that has historically leaned homophobic, ending the song with the line: "I'd love for everyone in heavy metal to be homosexual, if not only to make those Nazi fucking pricks in Slayer a little uncomfortable.
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I see it in myself when I purposefully cross my legs knee-on-knee (straight) rather than ankle-on-knee (gay), or when I wonder if an outfit is too dykey then frantically change shirts, or when I feel even now, 10 years out of the closet, a pang of anxiety while holding a woman's hand in public.
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I'm thankful, in many ways, that I learned enough about myself to know I needed to come out sooner rather than later, that being openly gay was not only an inevitability, but a wonderful thing, that I would not only come out of the closet, but come out of my shell and find my true voice.
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We're past Labor Day and while fall doesn't officially start until September 22, that gives those of us who are ready to leave summer behind the permission to drag our sweaters out of the closet, stare at the trees for any sign of changing color, and prepare ourselves for the onslaught of pumpkin spice-flavored everything.
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But how much did their getting to know more LGBTQ people come about because of an environment where people felt comfortable coming out of the closet thanks to TV shows, usually sitcoms, presenting LGBTQ people as just another part of the vast mosaic of interchangeable, attractive Americans who can crack jokes and draw laughs from unseen viewers?
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"Since this fetish involves unprotected sex (or the idea of it), sexual partners should exercise extra caution in insuring and discussing sexual health," advises kink-friendly sex therapist Alyssa Siegel, who also reminds that, in general, if you have a kink, it's better to let it out of the closet and share your interest with your partner(s).
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And for all the frothy outré humor that fell out of the closet with him, whether the hot pants and fly boots created by the Mr. Freedom founder Tommy Roberts in the 1970s or the feathery showgirl-inspired costumes from Bob Mackie during the 1980s, stage outfits also offered a dazzling armor against the gaze of the outside world.
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While some LGBT members have chosen to come out of the closet after they retired from Congress while others have decided to remain in the closet, Congress currently has seven openly gay members; this means slightly more than 6900% of the Congressional population represents the slightly less than 2628% of Americans who identify as LGBT – not perfect, but not too bad.
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Brendan (Luke Bracey) is a macho television star who wants to come out of the closet; his best friend, Cory (Dustin Milligan), is a slacker idiot who may want to grow up; Gabbi (Emily Meade), whom Cory meets in a gay bar, is a lesbian who discovers to her horror that she enjoys sex with men, or at least with Cory.
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But in high school, when I was barely out of the closet and ensconced in a white heterosexual party scene, my costumes involved straightening my hair, wearing makeup (which I never wore normally), and throwing on a variation of a crop top and bottoms—once I went as a soccer player, another time I was a member of Salt n Pepa.
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" Rob Salkowitz on the superhero backlash: "One of the things that happened that drove comics into the mainstream in the early 2000s was a bunch of up-and-coming thought leaders in the elite community came out of the closet as comic fans—people like Ta-Nehisi Coates, who's now writing Black Panther for Marvel, and Ezra Klein, and Spencer Ackerman, people like that.
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By Sunday afternoon, Mr. Newbern, 38 — who has spent two years trying to build a gay rights community in his home city, Florence, in part by persuading people that it is safe to come out of the closet — was struggling, as were gay people nationwide, to make sense of the worst mass shooting in American history, committed on a Latin-themed night in a gay nightclub by a Muslim gunman.
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I thought everybody was supposed to come out of the closet, now you&aposre supposed to stay in your home, not be able to leave and not be able to go in public or they will literally scream the most horrible words in front of your children, it doesn&apost matter what you are doing, because you are part of the dash how is this fascist to be speaking around the country.
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From giving up a safe House seat for a long-shot Senate race whose very existence helps other down-ballot candidates to giving up a Saturday afternoon to attend a candidate town hall in Bandera to putting up a political sign most of your neighbors will disagree with in order to signal to other shy Democrats that they should come out of the closet, millions of people across America are doing tangible things to dislodge Trump in tangible ways.
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Sue began the series as a potential outcast, but her endless font of optimism and essential kindness meant that as the series wore on, she found her people, making very good friends and even supporting one of them when he came out of the closet (in a storyline about what it means to be a gay man in a town that might not seem to be the most open or accepting that's as good as any in TV history).
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Politicians Don't Actually Care What Voters Want What We've Learned From Our Privacy Project (So Far) Not Everyone Wanted a Man on the Moon What Trump Is Teaching Our Children In the Squad, Trump Finds His Foil So This Is Where We Are Trump's Message: Love It or Leave It, With a Bigoted Edge Donald Trump Wishes He Were Running Against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Racism Comes Out of the Closet Trump's America Is a 'White Man's Country' Trump Is Racist to the Bone How Not to Insult Donald Trump _________ Whatever caught your eye, tell us about it in the comments.
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Politicians Don't Actually Care What Voters Want What We've Learned From Our Privacy Project (So Far) Not Everyone Wanted a Man on the Moon What Trump Is Teaching Our Children In the Squad, Trump Finds His Foil So This Is Where We Are Trump's Message: Love It or Leave It, With a Bigoted Edge Donald Trump Wishes He Were Running Against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Racism Comes Out of the Closet Trump's America Is a 'White Man's Country' Trump Is Racist to the Bone How Not to Insult Donald Trump _________ Whatever caught your eye, tell us about it in the comments.
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