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George A. Chauncey, social historian of gay life and author of Gay New York, argued last night in a speech that the meaning of the term "closet" to the gay community evolved rapidly in the late sixties...
...Chauncey, a professor of history at the University of Chicago, gave a talk titled "The History of the Closet" to about 60 people in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...Prior to the late 1960s] gays embraced the cultural distinction between public and private spheres, and deliberately cultivated ambiguity," Chauncey said...
...scores--566 verbal and 640 math--were certainly good enough to merit admission to Yale even without his father's weight behind him, Chauncey says...
...thing that was most troubling to George was the culture shock from Texas to New Haven," Chauncey says...