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When a young lawyer named Zhou Dan started writing about being gay on Chinese websites in 2001, he hoped his honesty would help combat prejudice. Homosexuality was--and still is--very much in the closet in China; Beijing had just taken it off an official list of mental disorders. Zhou's entries, signed with his own name, had an unintended consequence. Gay men from around China who had faced workplace discrimination, blackmail and even prison time started to seek his legal counsel. So Zhou, 31, decided to act on his conviction that "a good lawyer should know not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing the Game in China | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

...fortysomething closet video-game addict, I'm not at all surprised by the features of the new Xbox. I'm no conservative moralist, but I am worried by the incredible darkness in the gaming world. Most current game designs (besides those of sports and auto-racing titles) are oppressively heavy and angst-ridden. I hope the next breakthrough in gaming ends the ceaseless marketing to the basest instincts of the 18-year-old male psyche. I will stick with sports games, but I am concerned that my 10-year-old son is growing up in a world in which even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/13/2005 | See Source »

...meeting of gay and lesbian leaders at the White House, in 1977; of lung cancer; in San Clemente, Calif. One of three openly gay delegates to the 1976 Democratic National Convention, she co-founded National Coming Out Day, which since 1988 has encouraged gays to step out of the closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 20, 2005 | 6/12/2005 | See Source »

...CLOSET CONSERVATIVE?...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Elephant In the Room? | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...Larry Summers is not a closet conservative,” says University of California-Berkeley economist J. Bradford DeLong ’82, who served alongside Summers both on the Harvard faculty and at the Treasury Department...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Elephant In the Room? | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

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