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Beginners, in which Christopher Plummer is a gay man who comes out late in life and Ewan MacGregor is his son who has intimacy issues. The dog is brilliant.

A beard is a woman who gets involved with a gay man in order to make him look like a straight man. Like the facial hair she is named after, she conceals something that should be as obvious as the nose on his face, but which he pretends is not there. We will not go into the reasons why he denies that he has a nose, or why he thinks we would believe him despite the evidence of our eyes. That is the stuff of dissertations.

It is not for us to drag him out of his closet if it is a very comfortable walk-in lined with Gucci loafers and Hermes belts. Who knows what roles we would agree to play if we were offered even an empty but very well-made walk-in closet? You know how cramped today’s condos are. Although it is silly for him to go on pretending if the closet has glass doors (“eskaparate” as the filmmaker Joey Reyes put it) and we can see right into it. Our point is that everyone has something to hide, and our existence is not necessarily improved by bringing this out into the cruel light of day.

Read A Guide to Beards in interaksyon.com.