closet queen

“I called it a closet queen bar.”

Though Vidal accused Buckley of being a “closet queen”, this was not the retort of a militant homosexual: Vidal, a “pansexual”, always saw “homosexual” and “heterosexual” as adjectives, not nouns.

Allusions to homosexuality were abundant, with Buckley implying that Vidal was distinctly “other”; Vidal insinuated that Buckley was a closet queen.

For, you see, the old gentleman himself got around a bit in his day�notably into the marital bed of his son, the closet queen.

As soon as the king of Persia was in the closet, Queen Gulnare ordered one of her women to bring her a fire-pan with a little fire.