Closeted gay meaning
to be a gay, homosexual woman, bi or queer person who hides their accurate sexual orientation from the public and those around them. often for anxiety of persecution, rejection, others' reactions, but not always for negative reasons. some would just as soon not come out or see no reason to.
jerry's gay, but he stays closeted to avoidlosing his teaching job.
by dagger_grrl October 11,
A repressed homosexual or bi-sexual who may or may not 'come out of the closet' and disclose their sexuality. They may be 'outed' against their will.
Also refers to a homosexual or bi-sexual who is experiencing self denial.
"he is so closeted that he thinks he is in Narnia"
by LizzieHHH January 09,
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Green’s Dictionary of Slang
closetadj.
alsocloseted, closety[closet n. (2)]1. of entity homosexual, secret, clandestine, hidden.
| A. Reiss in Cressey & Ward Delinquency, Crime, and Social Process () In the organized ‘gay world,’ they are known as ‘closet fags’. | |
| B. RodgersQueens’ Vernacular closeted [in the closet] refusing to associate with known gays for terror of being discovered. | |
| B. Grier ‘Neither Prophet nor Salvation’ in Jay & Adolescent () They have a number of closeted male lover friends like themselves. | |
| A. MaupinFurther Tales of the City () It must’ve been a bitch, staying closeted all these years. | |
| C. WhiteLife and Times of Minute Richard All of you secret servers and closet folk. | |
| (ref. to ) in Walking After Midnight () Usually, if you met somebody who was gay and butch, they were very uptight, closety types. | |
| D. Jarman letter 22 Mar. Smiling in Behind Motion () The Times was pushing me to say I thought all closeted stars should be Outed. | |
K. LetteFoetal Attraction () Oh yes. Closet lgbtq+. I should have guessed whe The ClosetTeaching and Learning by Amin Ghaziani | September 27, | Summer How many Americans undertake you think are gay or lesbian? Take a minute, think about it, and take your best guess. You’re probably wrong. Like most of us, you may hold overestimated the population. “The American universal estimates on average that 23% of Americans are lgbtq+ or lesbian,” notes the Gallup polling organization. The table below shows the responses that Gallup received in and then in to the question, “Just your best estimate, what % of Americans today would you say are gay or lesbian?” Only 9% of Americans correctly estimate the size of the gay and homosexual woman population at somewhere under 5%. Why are we so far off? Part of the explanation comes from people’s misunderstanding of social statistics. We craft similar mistakes when we estimate the size of racial and ethnic populations. Gallup remarks, “Americans estimate that a third of the U.S. population is black, and assume almost three in 10 are Hispanic, more than twice what the actual percentages were as measured by the census.” The finer educat Closet GayClaudia:How does it work, love between two men? Louis:It works like I don't know. Works like love. Claudia:You ever liked girls? Louis:I used to fictional to. Can't say I undertake any more. — Interview with the Vampire () A traits is LGBTQ, and doing their best to hide it, either due to potential consequences such as a Homophobic Hate Crime, being arrested and jailed, or Gayngst over whether they'll be accepted for who they are. May involve The Beard, Secretly Gay Activity, a Secret Connection, Flying Under the Gaydar, or any number of tropes pertaining to The Masquerade. Can guide into a Coming-Out Story, or being Forced Out of the Closet. Very much Truth in Television of course, especially in highly religious countries. There are still places where you can be executed for your sexual orientation if you're anything other than heterosexual and cisgender. NOTE: Do not confuse this with tropes such as Hide Your Lesbians, But Not Too Lgbtq+, and Get Back in the Closet, where the author has to be coy about a chara |