Word: closeting
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...save a few well-marked exceptions who are rarely ever worth mentioning. But the more people assume, the more arched eyebrows at same-sex couples walking down the street, the more stares at students whose genders are difficult to distinguish, the more gossip about people coming out of the closet, the more discomfort about mentioning one’s queer gender or sexuality, the fewer such mentions, the more people assume...
...England Journal of Medicine published a physician survey showing that when patients asked for lethal prescriptions, 16% of doctors complied, albeit quietly. "Aid in dying happens in every state," says assemblywoman Patty Berg, co-sponsor of the California bill. "We need to bring it out of the closet, impose legal safeguards and careful oversight...
...part of St. Patrick’s Day’s appeal is, I think, that while it demands little of participants it offers the feeling of community. We wouldn’t, after all, comb our closet for green clothes if everybody else weren’t doing the same thing. We wouldn’t—well, at least my roommate wouldn’t—drink Guinness, unless spurred to do so by a vague feeling of celebration. There is a deeply human compulsion to gather and to celebrate; in our more or less secular...
...Times, and inventing things: "There are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?" And so on. When Oskar discovers a mysterious key in his late father's closet, he embarks on a picaresque journey through New York City to find the lock it opens. It's his strange, private, obsessive way of dealing with death...
...question, Couldn't straight men or women have created these shows? Probably. But they didn't. Instead, these writers have taken the idea of a gay sensibility beyond the old campy, fey stereotypes. Their shows have the subtler sensibility defined by gay film historian Vito Russo in The Celluloid Closet, his study of the influence of gays on the movies: "A natural conviction that difference exists but doesn't matter, that there's no such thing as normal even when a majority of people think...