Definition of closeted
: closet 3 a closeted homosexual
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And focusing on outsiders has lead to many of Haynes’s best movies; Far from Heaven, for example, tells a story of fidelity, interracial love, and a closeted gay man against a backdrop of 1950s morality.
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