And in your book, you quoted 41% of LGBT executives in the USA decide to stay in the closet , and 34% in the UK.
Those hanging in the closet too.
But when we conform in such a way that we no longer are bringing ourselves forward, and the decisions like in the closet --
I was a queen in the closet .
I've always been in the closet .
Lock it in the closet .
You keep it in the closet .
I was definitely not in the closet or anything.
George Michael was still in the closet , for God's sake, and those were the Wham!
And when I walk in there with the BuzzFeed employees they quickly hid in the closet , and they were like, oh we need to store stuff.
He's still in the closet with them, and he still lives with them out of financial need and such.
So there's more in the closet that we can expect coming soon?
to stay in the closet at work but be out in private life.
Actually I'd been in the closet since I grew up in the '60s.
So I stayed in the closet .
the burden of being in the closet .
out and in the closet , grapple with is some sense of connectivity to people who are going through the same thing.
It's in the closet .
So sneak in the closet , have to shimmy-- I would have other people come over, and they were 200-pound guys.
CD's in the closet .
So I think anybody who's young in the closet or not even in the closet but still needs allies, they need to find safe spaces near them.
This is like the monster in the closet type thing for me where the storm is out in the field.
And so I entered rabbinical school in the closet with my partner who had been out for years sort of re-entering the closet with me.
So our third example begins in a different place, which is in the closet .
And it's not that they're in the closet , it's just that as you meet new people in business and they ask you and get to know you and they ask you
because you're going to find things in the closet that will make your skin crawl.
climate you want to almost get in the closet turn the light out grab your knees and rock back and forth and order
your body, one in the closet ready to wear, uh one in the wash."
I can totally relate to the whole queen in the closet comment.
is this the right moment for me not that I'm in the closet but is this something
In the closet , under the bed, anywhere she thought we wouldn't find her.
So it doesn't always have to be the skeletons in the closet , OK?
And it was a great having all six of us in this closet, but-- oh, we were in the closet .
What would you advise to someone who's in the closet and is struggling to get out, based on how you look at it?
And I think that something's wrong-- either people are in the closet , or gay people have been discriminated against, or maybe gay people have just opted out.
That's also a really great way to keep a person in the closet .
And then we got an actual audio booth that went in the closet .
said you you are gay and I I was so deep in the closet at a time and Melissa my
contact with her siblings and so she went back in the closet she told them what they needed to hear wanted to hear
And they're under your bed or they're in the closet .
-- 9 percent -- I think that that one's in the closet .
And she kind of was like getting to sort of still be safe in the closet .
Literally you could bring a sleeping bag and sleep on a floor in the closet and use their computers to try to debug your code.
But because they don't necessarily have that analogous experience for the experience of being in the closet as a trans person, it
Yeah, but that was-- Sleeping in the closet .
And I would cook, even in my Adams House room, there was a hotplate in the closet .
And I loved R. Kelly "In the Closet ."
Well, because I was used to being in the closet .
And during that time, I was always in the closet .
It resonated for me when you were speaking before about the experience of being in the closet and that teaches you certain things,