This article examines the importance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rhetorical approaches in professional communication theory, introducing the theory of working closets as central to understanding how LGBT professionals navigate and succeed. The author presents case studies of LGBT professionals at the headquarters of a national discount retail company as examples of working closets and asks what the implications are for professional communication studies. He also looks at the need to learn from and through queer rhetorics, cultural rhetorics, and social justice frameworks, especially given the cultural turn of professional communication studies in the early 21st century.

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工作壁橱

本文探讨了女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和跨性别 (LGBT) 修辞方法在专业传播理论中的重要性，介绍了工作壁橱理论作为理解 LGBT 专业人士如何导航和取得成功的核心。作者将一家全国性折扣零售公司总部的 LGBT 专业人士的案例研究作为工作间的例子，并询问对专业传播研究的影响。他还研究了从酷儿修辞、文化修辞和社会正义框架中学习并从中学习的必要性，特别是考虑到 21 世纪初专业传播研究的文化转向。