closety
adjEtymology From closet + -y.
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Colloquial Inclined to remain in the closet; not open about one's homosexuality.
- Gay Pride, for all its need to show off, did not alienate old-liners of the homophile movement, nor uncommitted young and middle-aged gays, nor even old and/or closety homosexuals.1971, Donn Teal, The Gay Militants:
- The lyrics to the song, despite attempts to support gay liberation […] end up being apologetic and closety.1978 April 1, Eric Rogers, “The Macho Madness of the Village People”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
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- I was very closety and not at all comfortable about the direction my sexuality was taking me.2014, Audrey Borden, The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous, page 102: