Simmons told me how he mustered the courage to come out of the closet.

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Do you have a close friend or family member who has come out of the closet?

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This is the very reason we want derivatives to come out of the closet, so we can assess systemic risk carefully when we need to most.

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"There was no closet to come out of in those days, " Bergwall said.

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But the spat also underlined that, despite receiving pots of federal money, it is much easier for Quebec's artists to come out as gay (as both playwrights did years ago) than to reveal the merest suspicion of closet federalism.

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