by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 28, 2011 | Fighting Back
On Saturday and Sunday morning, the images of the celebrating crowds in front of the Stonewall Inn reminded many of us of the images of the very angry crowds in front of the same inn, almost exactly 42 years earlier. Then, there were no professional photographers, and...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 20, 2011 | Film
A friend said, on reading some story I had written, “Your character missed the whole sixties.” What my friend meant was that my character had missed my friend’s idea of the sixties. My character lived through the sixties in a heterosexual marriage, in middle-sized...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 16, 2011 | Film
by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 11, 2011 | Stonewall Riots
Today is Gay Pride in Boston. This celebration marks the forty-second commemoration of the Stonewall Riots, and the forty-first Gay Pride march. The first was held in New York in 1970 and was called Christopher Street Liberation Day march. In successive years, other...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 6, 2011 | Fighting Back
Hamlet, to set things right in Denmark, kills the king. Whatever he has going on in his life with respect to his mother and her second husband, and to the woman with whom he has fallen in love, he has to act against the king, and that is regicide. The audience to that...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 1, 2011 | Fighting Back
Mitzi, fifteen years old, transgender, homeless, a fierce fighter, has always known that the private, intimate details of her life seamlessly become public every time she goes onto the street. “I think,” Mitzi says, “every time I go on the street I’m giving the finger...
