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pesahson
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21 September 2013 at 3:47pm | IP Logged

chenshujian wrote:

prz_ wrote:

It would be interesting if you tell what are the equivalents of this phrase in your native languages. In Polish it's "wyjść z szafy", so pretty much the same.

In my native language Chinese, it is called "出柜". But it is just a literal translation of the phrase "out of the closet". It is a word newly created by the Chinese entertainment media. I didn't know this word before.

I'd say it's exactly the same in Polish. I've never encountered it before in any other context. Unless prz corrects me."Wyjść z szafy" sounds really awful.

Edited by pesahson on 21 September 2013 at 3:48pm
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vonPeterhof
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22 September 2013 at 8:37am | IP Logged

The default version in Russian is каминг-аут, which is simply a transliteration of the English phrase "coming out". I've also heard people use the phrase "выйти из клозета" informally. The latter phrase uses the loanword клозет, which is the Cyrillic spelling of "closet", but its meaning is different from the English one. It's actually a somewhat outdated word for "lavatory" (abbreviated from "water closet", i.e. WC). I'm not sure what the official Russian word for "closeted" or "in the closet" actually is.
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prz_
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22 September 2013 at 11:41am | IP Logged

vonPeterhof wrote:

I'm not sure what the official Russian word for "closeted" or "in the closet" actually is.

Better for you, considering the new Russian law ;]

Edited by prz_ on 22 September 2013 at 1:30pm
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22 September 2013 at 12:20pm | IP Logged

prz_ wrote:

vonPeterhof wrote:

I'm not sure what the official Russian word for "closeted" or "in the closet" actually is.

Better for you, considering the new Russian law ;]

Ugh, don't remind me, or else I might start furiously spewing "propaganda" and get this forum banned in Russia ;)

Edited by vonPeterhof on 22 September 2013 at 12:21pm
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23 September 2013 at 11:43am | IP Logged

In Dutch it's a literal translation: "uit de kast komen". A gay person who has not
revealed his identity to anyone is said to be "in de kast".
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Message 14 of 27

23 September 2013 at 12:10pm | IP Logged

In German, there's only the expression "sein Coming-Out haben". There's no idiom related to closets or the like.

A gay person who had his or her coming-out is "geoutet" while someone who is still in the closet is "ungeoutet".
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chenshujian
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25 September 2013 at 9:56am | IP Logged

Josquin wrote:

What about in French?
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zabanaflawa
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09 October 2013 at 1:17am | IP Logged

In English you can say "to out someone" (= to reveal that a person is gay), and it is usually used in the passive.

For example: since the 1980s, dozens of celebrities have been outed by the British press.

I love "ungeoutet"! We would say "he is still in the closet".

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