Word: closet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...albums in the early '80s were so slender that a persistent record company still bills her for production costs. If You Won't Forget Me keeps on sailing, she may actually see her first royalty check after about 30 years of recordmaking. "My secret is out of the closet now," she laughs...
According to a February 27 article in The Boston Globe, the Kennedy School endorsed an initiative to recruit gay and lesbian faculty and students as a response to the perceived homophobia of institutions like Harvard, which keeps many people either in the closet or outside of the admissions and hiring processes altogether...
...wanting to be outdone by the teammate with whom he shares a closet-sized bedroom, Mallgrave notched his first Crimson shorthanded goal later in Saturday's contest, enabling Harvard to tie the game and win the series...
...makes a spectacular, suicidal fool of himself: insulting his audience, trashing hotel rooms, dangling from 10th-story windows, engaging in a blood- sipping ritual with his witchy mistress (Kathleen Quinlan, who gets it right), locking his wife-to-be (Meg Ryan, who has no character to play) in a closet and setting it on fire. Perhaps Stone wants to show that Morrison was the victim of sensuality -- death's hunkiest groupie -- rather than its agent. But the film really proves only that Jim was a bad drunk and a worse friend, and that in no way was his life exemplary...
...identify oneself as a "lesbian artist" is a political act. At best such a political strategy can defy the closet, enable the visibility of "lesbians," and work to forge culture and community. However, marking oneself as a "lesbian artist" often means that one is excluded from showing one's work in prestigious and well-funded museums and galleries, as frequently are women artists, artists of color, working class artists, and artists with disabilities. Also, one's work may be dismissed for supposed "lack of universal appeal." Consequently, recognition as an artist is impeded. Visible challenges such institutionalized obstacles...