This chapter focuses on an area of Lister’s writing that has been overlooked in recent scholarship: the relationship between coding and closeting in the diaries. It suggests that more work is needed on the psychological processing within the diary volumes, and that the complexity of these volumes has not been well served by readings based on, or within, lesbian continuum models. In this chapter I propose an analytical framework derived from a combination of contemporary queer theory and historicism to recover Lister’s self-conscious closet. The relationship between coded and uncoded sections of the diaries is also ripe for further analysis. In using these alternating spaces, Lister chooses when, and when not, to disclose aspects of her queerness. The Lister of the diary volumes is never closeted from herself and is aware of her own ’oddity’ at the same time as she asserts her own version of normality. This chapter illustrates how a differently framed reading of the decoded sections can foreground the neglected dichotomy between coding and closeting. It also proposes new readings of the uncoded sections of the diary text, which show how these areas produce an additional public closet in which Lister depersonalises some of her writing.