#closet

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy. ↗

— Dan Savage

#end #enemy #peers #place #queer

I love organization, so I split my clothes into two closets according to seasons. ↗

— Kiernan Shipka

#closets #clothes #i #i love #into

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#am #as far as #chasing #closet #far

When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#cellar #closet #down #first #i

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight. ↗

— Harvey Milk

#closet #doors #down #fight #once

If you are in the closet and fall in love with someone of the same gender, it doesn't automatically remove the shame and fear that's kept you locked away. The love you are experiencing encourages you to face the reality that this is who you really are and also has the power to set you free. The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability. Love, the most powerful of human emotions, is calling you to freedom and wholeness. ↗

— Anthony Venn-Brown

#coming-out-of-the-closet #gay #lesbian #lgbt #beauty

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame. ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#cornered #homosexual #i #market #morticians

I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that. ↗

— Taylor Kitsch

#closet #had #i #like #never

The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#coming-out #homosexuality #relationships #the-closet #wh-auden

Nothing optional—from homosexuality to adultery—is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate. As Shakespeare put it in King Lear, the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#closeted #homosexuality #hypocrisy #prohibition #religion