The closet

:For the small enclosed storage space, also known as a cupboard, see closet.

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The expression "being in the closet" has been used to describe keeping secret one's sexual behavior or orientation; most commonly homosexuality or bisexuality, but also including transgender and transsexual people.

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In 1993 Michelangelo Signorile wrote Queer In America (re-released in 2003 by University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 0299193748) in which he explored in depth the harm caused both to the closeted individual and to society in general by being in the closet.

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