Definition of closeted
: closet 3
- a closeted homosexual
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The story of Ned’s public efforts is mirrored in his private effort to save his lover, Felix, a closeted New York Times writer dying of AIDS.
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For Gloria Carter, a closeted gay black woman with four kids, life was not horrible.
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Then as now, the play concerns Prior Walter, who is diagnosed with AIDS in 1985, and whose boyfriend Louis promptly abandons him to take up with a closeted gay Mormon Reaganite.
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The blog frequently speculated that the former Republican governor of Florida, Charlie Crist, was a closeted gay man who only married a woman as a facade, despite the fact that Crist had never come out as gay.
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Why do Harper and Joe Pitt, a closeted gay man, get married?
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Some folks were of the closeted fandom variety, while others were just killing time on their lunch breaks.
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Hunter, never the most attentive of fathers, is sharp enough to have guessed, correctly, that his daughter, Sam (Gideon Adlon), is a closeted lesbian.
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His art reflects the Great Depression and the anxiety of his personal life as a closeted gay man in the Midwest nearly a century ago.
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First Known Use of closeted
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