For him, as for most of these narrators, it is almost a relief not to speak out, to keep their lives secret.
Many lived double lives, keeping their private lives secret from their professional ones.
The following five stars managed to keep their love lives secret for years until divorce eventually outed them.
When Timofeev arrived he encountered a post-Soviet gay community whose members made great efforts to keep their lives secret.
In a context where premarital sex is morally sanctioned ECs provide young people with a way of keeping their sexual lives secret and they fit well with their sex lives that often entail infrequent sexual encounters.
Gay service members say they feel relief they no longer have to live secret lives.
The rest live here illegally, living secret half-lives, working in sweat shops if they're lucky, and living in constant fear of being discovered.
The media have a role, too, including Oprah's widely publicized show about black men living secret lives on the down low, married to women but sleeping with men.
As we water and weed our flower borders, we are often unwittingly tending all sorts of tasty treats that live secret double lives in other parts of the world as major crops.
It is this stigmatization of homosexuality by many African-Americans that leads many men to live secret sexual lives on the fringes of their communities, often under perilous circumstances.
Hill and all the other soldiers who were forced to live secret lives.
