The Closet Professor

A blog about LGBTQ+ History, Art, Literature, Politics, Culture, and Whatever Else Comes to Mind. The Closet Professor is a fun (sometimes tongue-in-cheek, sometimes very serious) approach to LGBTQ+ Culture.

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Sunday, July 6, 2025

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Building One Another Up

“Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification.” — Romans 15:2 Not long ago, the Verse-of-the-Day that landed in ...

Saturday, July 5, 2025

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Moment of Zen: Summer Heat

Friday, July 4, 2025

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A Somber Fourth of July

Today is the Fourth of July — a day that is supposed to celebrate independence, liberty, and the birth of a nation “conceived in liberty, an...

Thursday, July 3, 2025

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Little Monsters and Lingering Pain

On Monday, I wrote about the back and abdominal pain that made my weekend so miserable. Tuesday, I went to see my doctor to try to figure ou...

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

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A Soldier Stripped Bare: The Nude Photographs of Lt. Edgar Henry Garland

Some of you may know that my original academic passion—and the reason I first went to graduate school—was to study military history, with a ...

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

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America

America by Walt Whitman Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old, Strong, ample, fair, e...

Monday, June 30, 2025

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Rough Weekend

It’s been a rough one. This weekend has been full of pain—head, back, and stomach—and not the kind that fades with a good night’s sleep. The...

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About Me

Joe: I began my life in the South and for five years lived as a closeted teacher, but that changed when I took a job as an oral historian in New England. I am now a museum curator, but my move to New England began a new life for me. I think my life will work out the way it was always meant to be. That doesn't mean there won't be ups and downs; that's all part of life. It means I just have to be patient. I feel like October 7, 2015 is my new birthday. It's a beginning filled with great hope. It's a second chance to live my life…not anyone else's.

My profile picture is "David and Me," 2001 painting by artist Steve Walker. It happens to be one of my favorite modern gay art pieces.

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