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Colin Grant Hiding in the Front Room The BBC series Mr Loverman, about a closeted West Indian grandfather and his family, explores the submerged emotional lives of the Windrush generation in Britain.
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The New York Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2025
Anthony Perkins, a closeted gay man, died of AIDS in 1992, and his mother Berinthia Berenson-Perkins was on American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center during the September 11 terrorist attacks.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 21 Feb. 2025
This nervy psychological thriller about a closeted undercover cop can be hard to watch.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
Escola also wrote the show, which puts a comic spin on history (Abraham Lincoln is a closeted gay man with a roving eye in this production, while Mary Todd, frustrated at being his beard and life in the White House, hits the sauce).
—Brent Lang, Variety, 6 Feb. 2025
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The New York Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2025
Anthony Perkins, a closeted gay man, died of AIDS in 1992, and his mother Berinthia Berenson-Perkins was on American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center during the September 11 terrorist attacks.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 21 Feb. 2025
This nervy psychological thriller about a closeted undercover cop can be hard to watch.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
Escola also wrote the show, which puts a comic spin on history (Abraham Lincoln is a closeted gay man with a roving eye in this production, while Mary Todd, frustrated at being his beard and life in the White House, hits the sauce).
—Brent Lang, Variety, 6 Feb. 2025
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“Closeted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/closeted. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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