Queer youth's dominant perceptions of the Internet construct it as a safe space devoid of homophobia in which to explore sexuality, find information, and make friends. Websites designed by or for queer youth have been regarded as important social networks because they provide a vocal space for queer young people to be queer. Such sites also have been viewed as a practice arena for coming out, where the anonymity of the individual works to support the disclosure of traditionally anonymous sexual subjectivities. However, the Internet also acts as a closet in the formation of queer subjectivities. Online, young people are confronted with, and work through, closets that foreclose particular heterosexual and queer vocalizations in favor of specific, recognizable, set queer subjectivities that are both enabling and disabling. Using a queer website, the author shows how online queer spaces can become closets, as well as offer negotiation potential for their users.This article will discuss how websites constructed for or by queer youth can be understood as closets and will explore the ways in which these closets might work on and be negotiated by queer young people. To aid this discussion, I will focus particularly on one website currently popular in the Australian queer community, applying a critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 2003(Fairclough , 2007 to website texts in order to elucidate the discursive practices mobilized on the bodies of users when they engage with the website. I will then explore this discourse analysis in relation to the theoretical work of Sedgwick (1990) and Brown (2000) to demonstrate how these discourses can have closeting effects on queer users of queer websites.This article derives from a larger research project (Fraser 2009) that explores the ways in which young queer people engage with queer Internet sites and the effect of that engagement on queer subjectivity. This research incorporated surveys, interviews, and critical discursive analysis of the key websites (as texts) to begin to explore and narrate some of the complex processes of subjective production and interpretation that occurs in online environments for queer youth. As a part of that research, this article particularly focuses on the analysis of websites as text; however, this analysis is also informed by dialogue with participants in those Internet spaces, gained through faceto-face interviews.The research from which this article is drawn was originally conceived from my personal experience of being a young queer user of the Internet. As a young person coming out, I was compelled somehow to explore various spaces that I thought would somehow be more queer than those spaces that I usually occupied. As such, I found myself, with little luck, trying to find some sort of community on Oxford Street or in Newtown-places regarded in Sydney, Australia, as having a high queer population. My initial forays into these spaces were, as I have implied already, unsuccessful; however, looking back, I understand how these spaces could be perce...