text: After an admiring review of Grizzard 's wit , the author turns on the writer for peddling a nostalgic vision of a homogeneous pre-integration Grizzard 's idealized South was the world before feminists and affirmative action , when gays stayed in the closet where they belonged , where America pretty much meant the world of small-town white folks like him .
  
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  Gays used to stay in the closet , where , it was believed , they belonged .