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...Cabot has never been wanting for facilities. Of all the houses, rooming is consistently the best. No Dunster closet-doubles here. And no silly 2:30 a.m. fire alarms...
Rafsky left Harvard in 1968. He tried teaching, but eventually settled on jobs that earned him a more comfortable living. He worked in public relations in New York. He got married and had a daughter, Sara. But in 1985, he came out of the closet and divorced his wife. Sometime, probably in 1987, he contracted AIDS...
...part- Cherokee father and full-blooded Mohawk mother, who used to break out the herbs and tonics whenever he and his two brothers and sister had a fever or bellyache. "There would always be long-necked bottles filled with liquids sitting on a shelf in the closet, and a few bags of dried leaves -- turtle socks and other things -- that could be brewed into foul-tasting teas." At the same time, Jacobs continues, "my mother recognized that more serious illnesses needed a regular physician...
Susie mentioned a gathering last weekend where they played a parlor game, "Two Minutes in the Closet." Two minutes with a boy, I gathered from her description. "Two minutes for what?" I asked her. "For talking? Did you have to talk for two minutes?" Susie just raised her eyebrows...
...model. "Hundreds of corporations have policies that protect gay men and lesbians against discrimination," says Jay Lucas, a Philadelphia employment consultant. "But that doesn't mean the culture has changed." John, a Navy petty officer in San Diego, sounds a common refrain. To come out of the closet, he says, "would be professional suicide because your superiors will find ways not to promote you." A change in policy does not guarantee that harassment will immediately stop: some gay servicemen reported last week that insults and physical attacks have increased since President Clinton began speaking out against...