Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.
Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face.
My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.
What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could not possibly remain closeted in that windowless, bone-chilling room. Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its waters until presently I drowned.
The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.
I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.
I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.
I can imagine that if you're a kid growing up somewhere, where you might be gay or you think you're gay, but you don't know who else would be. . . you become very closeted.
I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.
