out of the closet

He later suggests to one of the others in the room to take a jacket from out of the closet.

People look at people all the time as trendsetters when I know for a fact that they just put on the first few things they grabbed out of the closet.

"Let me tell you something: just come out of the closet boys. Come on, it's fun. You can be gay and conservative," he says in the video.

In an attempt to defeat it, tens of thousands of gay people came out of the closet and built a political movement that was more robust and organized than anything the country’s nascent gay-rights groups had managed before.

He and his friends, less than a decade after my Marky Mark comment, helped usher me out of the closet with tremendous care and encouragement.