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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...changed," and even got married and fathered a son. But no matter how hard I prayed to change my sexual orientation, no matter how much I believed I could be "delivered" from the sin of homosexuality, I finally had to accept the inevitable. I came out of the closet, left behind a bitter and betrayed wife and watched my son, now 18, struggle with his love for me and the hate he feels toward homosexuals. Unfortunately, I left destruction in my wake, but I have never felt better or healthier than I have since I came out. JAMES S. FITZGERALD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

Directly opposite the television is The Bed, a queen-sized structure extending from a nook in the wall (originally a closet). The Bed is covered by a silky black comforter and framed by a leopard-print valance and bedskirt. The leopard-print motif also saturates the room's black, blue and orange patterned rug as well as its black and yellow window drapes. Black lights illuminate posters of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley while to the side a "Cosmic Circle" light radiates gently...

Author: By Debra P. Hunter, | Title: Rooms Built For Love, and Then Some | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...down to 32% for those in their 50s. Of course, it's conceivable that these numbers are a reflection less of raw, hurtful prejudice than of the sad truth that older writers, to give but one example, just aren't funny enough to write for Veronica's Closet--and how unfunny that must be. Neither explanation, I might add, is much comfort for someone on the cusp of a fifth decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Expiration-Date Culture | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...passion never really climaxes, and his understanding of the world never really evokes sympathy. This man, irate Ira Ringold, is a 1950s radio star who has never given up the Communist passions he picked up as an uneducated GI and whose marriage to a Hollywood actress, a closet Jew in thrall to her 24 year old harpist daughter, is a poor buffer against Ira's ongoing, subconscioussearch "for a way not to kill anybody." Ira wantseverything he does to be as big as his own temper,and I Married a Communist is a tragicomedyabout how that attitude didn't really...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roth's Best Title; Not a Bad Book Either | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

Fresh from the shower, ransack roommate's closet for clothes worthy of a Wellesley girl. Luckily, said roommate once appeared on "The Grind." Emerge with: tube top, tight black pants and stilettos...

Author: By Avra VAN Der zee, | Title: JUST A SQUIRREL TRYIN' TO GET A NUT | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

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