This week, NBA center Jason Colls announced he was gay a ver story for Sports Illtrated. In other words, he "me out of the closet." This exprsn for revealg one's homosexualy seems natural. Beg the closet impli hidg om the out
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CLOSETED GAY MEN – WHY ARE THEY STILL THERE?
* gay in the closet meaning *
This week, NBA center Jason Colls announced he was gay a ver story for Sports Illtrated. " This exprsn for revealg one's homosexualy may seem natural. But though the closet has long been a metaphor for privacy or secrecy, s e wh reference to homosexualy is relatively recent.
Acrdg to Gee Chncey's prehensive history of morn gay culture, Gay New York, the closet metaphor was not ed by gay people until the 1960s. Before then, don't appear anywhere " the rerds of the gay movement or the novels, diari, or letters of gay men and lbians.