Comment on Who came up with the phrase "coming out of the closet" to describe homosexuals admitting they are gay? Why not coming out of the kitchen or coming out of the bedroom?

yogurt@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Letting the other gay people know you’re gay is a 19th century debutante coming out party, secret gay is a skeleton in the closet. Unrelated metaphors got merged together because they grammatically make sense that way.

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