What is a glass cabinet?
Some people use the term "glass cabinet" to describe someone who is gay without being "out". In other words, someone in a glass cabinet openly lives a gay lifestyle, but refuses to comment on it or confirm the impressions of his sexual orientation. Cases of people living in a glass cabinet are most often seen among celebrities, and Jodie Foster is a remarkable example of someone who is considered a glass cabinet. When someone is in the closet, it means that it has a sexual identity that is completely hidden, unlike someone outside the closet or "out", openly confirms homosexual sexual orientation. Being outside often comes with social and political consequences, which leads some people to stay in the closet to advance in their career or avoid controversy.t and be openly. For example, someone in a glass cabinet can live with someone of the same sex and be commonly seen in the company of this person, in what could be considered a transparently homosexual relationship. IfHowever, she was asked to express, the person would not confirm or deny the claim that he was gay. People in a glass cabinet may also be less likely to publicly acknowledge their partners, for fear of attracting attention.
Many Hollywood stars lived in a glass cabinet in the 1920s and 1930s because Hollywood studios feared that homosexual actors could refuse the public. As a result, these stars generally lived very "outside" lifestyle, but insisted on personal privacy in publications, sometimes even establishing false marriages with other Gays and lesbians to make it look as if they were in heterosexual relations.
Some people who are partially closed speculation about their sexual orientation to enjoy their position as someone who is partly outdoors without having to deal with social consequences. Others with vehemently angry if there are a description in the mediaojani as gay or if they are interviewed to their sexual preferences to the interviewer. In some cases, people in the glass cabinet can even sue for defamation if they are "discarded" in the media, which is more commonly associated with people who are fully in the closet.
Some activists do not like glass cabinets and claim that partial cabinets are damaging the homosexual community. According to this logic, if people in the glass cabinet should openly go, the public may have a more positive perception of homosexuals and lesbians, because they would learn that many people in different industries identify themselves as homosexual or lesbian. Other people feel that sexual orientation is a private affair and that people who want to stay in the glass cabinet have very valid reasons.