{"id":2345,"date":"2014-08-28T12:18:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=event&#038;p=2345"},"modified":"2015-01-09T13:21:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T18:21:30","slug":"the-closet","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/the-closet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Closet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/henry-abelove.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Abelove\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/henry-abelove.webp 590w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/henry-abelove-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/henry-abelove-300x199.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Henry Abelove, Willbur Fisk Osborne Emeritus Professor of English at Wesleyan University, will ask and try to answer this question: How and why and in what specific circumstances did the term \u201cthe closet\u201d\u2013as connoting a hidden life\u2013first come into use among gay and lesbian Americans?<\/p>\n<p>Professor Abelove is the co-editor of <em>The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader<\/em>, which won the Lambda Prize, and he is the author of <em>The Evangelist of Desire<\/em> and <em>Deep Gossip<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Abelove, Willbur Fisk Osborne Emeritus Professor of English at Wesleyan University, will ask and try to answer this question: How and why and in what specific circumstances did the term \u201cthe closet\u201d\u2013as connoting a hidden life\u2013first come into use among gay and lesbian Americans? Professor Abelove is the co-editor of The Lesbian and Gay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2347,"template":"","tags":[6,36,35,15],"class_list":["post-2345","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-gender","tag-history","tag-queer","tag-sexuality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/2345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}