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One was from a closeted Catholic priest inspired to confide in O’Callaghan.
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Exasperated with the secrecy that surrounds a closeted existence, Mili Hernández, along with her partner Mar de Griñó and Arnaldo Gancedo, set up the bookshop to give visibility to a community that had long been relegated to the shadows.
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At the story’s core is a pair of couples — one gay, one straight/closeted — trying to negotiate the rocky terrain of the early AIDS epidemic.
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The third story concerns one of Sebald’s great-uncles, Adelwarth, a German immigrant who worked as a valet in the United States, and whose life, as an immigrant and a closeted homosexual, bore immense strains.
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The story is autobiographical, and follows Bechdel’s childhood growing up under the tyrannical rule of her closeted homosexual father and coping with his suicide, while also coming to terms with her own homosexuality.
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The musical posits a plausible explanation for the case of the closeted corpse, tying together various issues touched upon in the plot.
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The story, as every Philadelphian surely knows by now, concerns a closeted homosexual lawyer named Andrew Beckett (Hanks) who is fired summarily from his prestigious Philadelphia law firm.
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Mary Pflum's childhood included a closeted gay dad and a mentally ill mom.
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First Known Use of closeted
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