Word: closeting
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...Smear Vaseline on Our Legs With a Pipe” aren’t words that one would necessarily expect to see enacted within the hallowed halls of Harvard’s Fogg Museum. But every weekend since June, in a second-floor room roughly the size of a closet, a T.V. screen has been displaying precisely that...
...being in the closet is old-fashioned, it's also profoundly destabilizing. In a forthcoming paper in Psychological Bulletin, John Pachankis of Stony Brook University cites studies showing that concealing a nonheterosexual orientation is associated with more emotional distress and depression than disclosing the truth. There's even evidence that cloaking your identity can impair your physical health. Which makes sense: it's surely stressful to allow others to define you all your life. "Being gay and closeted doesn't guarantee that you'll do things you shouldn't do, but it increases the likelihood that you might," Representative Barney...
...obsession with machine-gun beats and opted for new-wave keyboards, funk-inspired bass lines and even the occasional clarinet lick. The lyrics are clever--often hilarious--and go beyond babes, bullets and bling. Atrvete-te-te dares an intellectual girl to come out of the pop-rock closet and embrace reggaeton. No doubt Calle 13 will persuade others to do the same...
...Alex Trebek. According to Petri, Trebek is “more awkward in actual life” than he appears on television. She recalls this enigmatic gem: “Buddha got his enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree, but I get my enlightenment under the clothes tree, in my closet. I go in my closet, and come out of the closet,” said Trebek, according to Petri...
...Foley's side is presented by this windy, unusually blunt press conference from his lawyer, who told reporters that Foley was both a victim of sexual abuse and that he is a gay man as well as a "closet alcoholic." Finally, one former page goes to O'Reilly with his story about Foley contacting him via IM (where it got "quickly" sexual) soon after he left the program. Another former page has put up an informational website and welcomes questions. Though probably not "that kind...