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Favorite item in her closet: "Thicksoled boots that lace up to my knees, which I painted with Adidas stripes. It changes every couple of days, though...
That said, Tomassoni knows the aforementioned (and very real) dangers his team faces as it comes out of its January closet and dusts away its cobwebs for the first time...
Pardon my contempt. As the only openly gay person at the Yale graduate school, I paid the career price for my pre-Stonewall candor. Where were all these lesbians when it mattered? They stayed in the closet until tenure--and other people' sacrifices--made it safe to come out and claim the spoils. The then-bizarre themes of my dissertation, Sexual Personae--homosexuality, transvestism, transsexualism, sadomasochism--also ensured that no research university would hire me. I am only one of incalculable numbers of members of my generation whose fidelity to Sixties principles led to their exclusion from the establishment. That...
...WEEKS OF release, Philadelphia, Hollywood's first big attempt to tell an AIDS story in a feature film, played to good business in a scant four theaters nationwide. The picture was like a gay person who is cherished by his friends but reluctant to come out of the closet. In mid- January the movie finally fanned out on 1,200 screens and, of all things, it was a hit. America seemed to be accepting a few heretical notions: that a homosexual could earn respect and sympathy; that a star like Tom Hanks could play a gay man with credible grace...
There were other explanations for Inman's behavior -- in particular, speculation that he bowed out because he feared disclosure of some damaging secret. But what could it be? Whispers have been going around Washington that Inman is a closet gay. Inman, however, has met them head on. He told the ABC- TV affiliate back home in Austin, Texas, that he is not homosexual, but "I have gay friends. I deliberately ((sought them out)) to try to understand them . . . If that starts rumors...