Word: closeting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing that strikes me was the lack of gay organizationa, as opposed to today," Russakoff says. "There was an incredible amount of pressure to stay in the closet...
...thing that strikes me was the lack of gay organizations, as opposed to today," Russakoff says. "There was an incredible amount of pressure to stay in the closet...
...Tuesday to pick up the things they had left behind. Backpacks, long since checked for pipe bombs, still lay in front of lockers; car keys still sat in desk drawers. Almost everyone had something to come back for, and all of them had something to see and remember: the closet where they had hidden, the classroom where they had huddled and prayed, the parking lot where it all began. The library where it ended...
...diagnosed and he was put on Ritalin. "When he was 10 years old, he didn't want a birthday party because he just couldn't deal with it," she recalls. Then, his mother says, Nick "bottomed out and became suicidal, and one day I found him in a closet with a toy gun pointed at his head, and he said, 'If this was real, I'd use it.'" The next day she saw a psychologist who had recently evaluated Nick and was told, "If you don't get him help, next time he'll be successful." Nick was found...
...Barbara's Drawer of Chocolate, we passed some peanuts and pretzel sticks. "Did you set this up?" he asked incredulously. "Did you just put this here?" Seeing his reaction to mildly high-carb and high-fat foods, I circumvented Barbara's Drawer and took him to Ray's Closet of Low-Fat Snacks. He was not impressed. "In the late '80s, the dairy industry and the packaged-goods industry created this low-fat and no-fat bulls___," he said slowly and quietly, as if we were on The X-Files. "Nothing has caused obesity more." A friend of mine...