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.