Talk:trapped in the closet

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trapped in the closet

It's a song; but is it used in this sense? sewnmouthsecret 21:01, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

1993 - Michelangelo Signorile - Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power - Page xvi

"Many of them became determined to tear the institution of the closet down entirely. This book is about the people still trapped in the closet, ..."

1997 - Daniel Balderston, Donna J. Guy - Sex and Sexuality in Latin America - Page 187

"The lesbian trapped in the "closet," the women imprisoned in prescriptive ideas of the "normal" share the pain of blocked options, broken connections, ..."

2000 - Michael P. Brown - Closet Space: Geographies of Metaphor from the Body to the Globe - Page 40

"Even though he finds ample opportunities to have sex with men, he still feels trapped in the closet, which he materialises quite explicitly in terms of not being able to tell his parents:"

though, I've lots more references that denote a generalized meaning of people in a (to borrow a word from above) conundrum --BigBadBen 21:22, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the cites. The def. doesn;t really reflect the cites; so I will amend the def. sewnmouthsecret 21:32, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I made the def. more adjectival. This looks SoP = trapped + in the closet. DCDuring 22:19, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm inclined to agree, although I suppose this could have a more specific meaning particularly if there's another sense (I don't think the song was about R. Kelley being gay, maybe someone was though). Globish 07:47, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

I would have thought this was SoP, as is "stuck in the closet", but there seems to be enough use on both to indicate a set phrase.--Dmol 10:05, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

It's questionable. DAVilla 22:28, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Incidentally, this has nothing to do with the RfV, but the cap used for the South Park episode (w:Image:South Park Xenu.jpg) along with an overview of the summary really makes me want to see it. Globish 07:51, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

rfvfailed, cites are demonstrating "trapped" + "in the closet". - [The]DaveRoss 21:28, 12 April 2008 (UTC)