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...couldn't show you the fall line of skeletons in Rudnick's closet, because he came out of it long ago. He seems wildly well adjusted, at ease with his career, his sexuality, his place on earth. He is a happy camper and a nonstop talker; he's like a character in his novel Social Disease, who "had pledged a lifelong vow of chatter, as surely as Trappists chose silence." He writes what he wants, and people like it. He eats what he wants -- a deplorable diet of M&M's and bagels -- yet has a slim figure and good...
...course, many people suspected all along that Clinton was a closet liberal, and that the New Democrat rhetoric would fade after January 20. These cynical liberals were complicit in the hoax because they forgave Clinton for saying whatever it took to be elected. Their suspicions have been vindicated--Clinton's liberalism has not taken long to emerge. But liberals remain unsatisfied because Clinton has failed to adequately compensate them for their complicity by fulfilling all of his campaign promises in his first hundred days...
...agenda is part of the reason [to march], but the other is to share in our numbers," said Wofford, who also marched at the Capitol in 1987. "So many more are out of the closet, wanting to march and impatient about getting our rights...
Parents can be tougher. Some will try to martyr themselves over your homosexuality, and most will pressure you to go back into the closet or to "go for help." They usually believe they are acting out of concern for your happiness. But the concern often masks an even greater fear that they may have "caused" your gayness. That may lead them to assume a spurious responsibility for straightening you out, or at the very least to pressure you into solving everyone's "problem" by having you deny it again. This is tiresome and painful, and almost nothing you say will...
Again, this strip isn't about being gay. It's about dealing with people who come out of the closet, and Johnston knows about that. Eleven years ago, Johnston's brother-in-law revealed to her and her family that he is gay. We can expect that "For Better or For Worse" will treat this plot line in the educated manner we have come to expect from...