Everybody out!In a January 1990 Time magazine article titled "Forcing Gays Out of the Closet," Pulitzer Prize--winning writer William A. Henry III William A. Henry III (1950-1994) was an American cultural critic and author. Henry lived in Boston as a young man and began his career in journalism in that city, writing for the Boston Globe. introduced the phenomenon of "outing" to the general public. William Satire responded in The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Magazine, "Lexies take note: we are witnessing the birth of new meaning to a gerund ger·und n. 1. In Latin, a noun derived from a verb and having all case forms except the nominative. 2. In other languages, a verbal noun analogous to the Latin gerund, such as the English form ending in -ing ." Nearly two decades after Satire's grandiose send-off, "outing" has grown from a gay-specific term to the household word for anybody who's forced out of hiding about anything. "Karl Rove  The external links in this article or section may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies. basically outed Valerie Plame Valerie Elise Plame Wilson (born Valerie Elise Plame 19 April 1963, in Anchorage, Alaska), known as Valerie Plame, Valerie E. Wilson, and Valerie Plame Wilson , the undercover
agent."
--Chris Matthews, Hardball, November 29, 2005 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I'm the one who outed him on the smoking. That was one of my prerequisites for entering this race.... He couldn't be a smoking president." --Michelle Obama, on her husband's smoking habit, The Washington Post, February 11 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "When Lonelygirl15 was outed in September as the handiwork of amateur filmmakers, many predicted the duped audience would flee." --Adweek, December 11, 2006 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "[Steve McQueen] had sort of outed this other world of cancer treatment that other very, very sick cancer patients try to emulate." --Barron Lerner, MD, on McQueen's alternative cancer therapy, National Public Radio, February 9 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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