Also, why would an intruder have closeted himself in the toilet with the door locked?
Dickson says nonpartisans are closeted Democrats who are now ready to come out of hiding.
There was a time when most gay journalists remained closeted for fear of being penalized.
And NFL player Brendon Ayanbadejo, The New York Times reported, has been in contact with closeted players in several sports.
In the open-minded culture of that city, he had been able to have an un-closeted gay relationship without being judged.
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We empathize with Salvatore Romano, the closeted gay art director, and want to tell him that change is around the corner.
Gay activist Mike Rogers thinks the Mark Foley scandal is an example of how closeted gay Republicans can harm the larger gay community.
Julia gave up her dream of working outdoors, and spent the rest of her life closeted in a room staring at a computer screen.
It's an assignation that city officials frown upon in these closeted times and so everyone has to be careful or they'll end up in jail.
And, Cole-Schwartz said, there is the likely possibility that closeted gay kids were comforted when they saw the flood of digital support for gay rights.
"He was a closeted gay man, and he did not want in any way to be associated with this, " Kramer declared to New York magazine.
Two days before his meeting with the queen, Mr McGuinness was closeted with Mr Robinson, jointly pressing British ministers for a reduction in the corporation tax.
It is no longer a given that races should be segregated, or women underpaid or unable to determine what happens to their bodies, or gays be closeted.
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Ms. Brooke said these days, high-profile leaders are under increased pressure to be "authentic" with colleagues, which often means showing vulnerability an especially stressful task for closeted workers.
Capitalism and economic growth had been made very acceptable by the Thatcher years such that supporters of same freely came out of the closet, while socialists closeted themselves.
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"During that decade of closeted double life he found it immensely difficult to cope with the strain of hiding his gayness in the macho world of football, " he recalled.
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Likewise, says Kopelson, some modern gay men find it difficult to relate to him - in contrast, he says, with the actor Rock Hudson, another famous closeted celebrity of the era.
The most prominent sports executive to come out so far, Mr. Welts, 59, said he stayed closeted to protect his team's image and silently suffered whenever peers cracked jokes about homosexuals.
Fast forwarding to last week, it was deeply moving to be back in the White House, finally not as a closeted journalist or anything other than an open and affirming public citizen.
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The same can't be said for much of Europe, which hamstrings wealth creators and has seen only a few new fortunes (though we managed this year to estimate some previously closeted old ones).
Though the movie trades on every gay stereotype in the book, it also pointedly lampoons them: the couple, who adapt to their newfound identity with a self-interested enthusiasm, soon inspire closeted gay men to come out.
The Keen production is well-acted, although the material is somewhat dated: Homosexuality is preferred by polite society to remain closeted, the specter of AIDS is not even mentionable, and the word "preppy" is still in vogue.
The BBC's David Willey in Rome says that after the prayer recital on Sunday the Pope plans to spend the rest of the week on a Lenten prayer retreat closeted inside the Apostolic Palace with senior cardinals and bishops.
Cardinal Ravasi was chosen by the Pope to lead a six-day traditional Lenten retreat inside the Apostolic Palace during which the Pope each year cancels all public engagements and remains closeted for a period of spiritual meditation among his closest advisers.
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