aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Saturday, December 30, 2006
The Closet in decline
SoVo’s Year in Review story of the year, Swan Song for the Closet:
Having confined and defined much, if not most, of modern gay existence, “the closetâ€Â� showed once again in 2006 that it is still a mighty force, albeit a shadow of its once powerful self.
In fact, some believe the closet is steadily inching toward irrelevance, as successive generations of gay and lesbian youth settle into their sexual orientation without first surrounding it with four walls of angst, denial, duplicity and shame.
We can only hope.
