Word: closet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Attitudes such as Garoon's endorsement of employment discrimination against people like myself pervade contemporary culture. As gay men and lesbians, we have internalized the political climate. We have learned how to closet ourselves. How many queers come out to their alumni interviewer or proclaim their sexual identity when recruited for varsity athletics...
...free samples and promotional gifts. As a consequence, to this day I have trouble paying for drugs; I forget to buy Sudafed, thinking we have lots at home. Too bad home is back in DC. For what it would cost to mail the free Sudafed samples from my parents' closet, I've learned to utilize the CVS in the Square...
...Dunne's career and marriage were over, and his drinking and drug taking were out of control. "I remember being in a closet with someone who was shooting cocaine," he says, "and a voice said, 'Get out of there.'" He did get out of there, and spent six months in a cabin in Oregon, where he quit drinking and began to write. He moved to a tiny apartment in Greenwich Village. "My entire life," he says, "was my room and the A.A. meetings on Perry Street...
...inspired by the 100th anniversary of the Boston Marathon, Harte decided to take his sneakers out of the closet and take up marathon running...
Compared with predecessors Mao and Deng, he enjoyed an easy revolution, and he had a far more worldly upbringing. "I wouldn't describe him as a closet Western-culture buff," says Kenneth Lieberthal, a China scholar at the University of Michigan, "but he has a more appreciative attitude than many Chinese." He once told an American visitor that he regretted not earning a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but one of his sons did get his from Philadelphia's Drexel University and worked for Hewlett-Packard in California before returning to China...