by Dwight Cathcart | Jan 31, 2012 | Being gay
People say of themselves that they “just happen to be gay.” I think that’s bullshit. I am profoundly, inextricably gay, and being gay affects every single part of me. I didn’t “happen” to be gay. I am so deeply gay that if you took the gay away, there wouldn’t be...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jan 13, 2012 | Freedom
Freedom. We are in an election season, and the word is everywhere, but we don’t usually feel we have to ask what it means. For us, the big gay-rights cases before the Supreme Court place the word in a constitutional context. That’s important, but there are other...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jan 7, 2012 | Freedom
Before 1983, when I announced that my marriage was over, I had always been monogamous. It was not until 1990, as I was beginning another relationship and still in the first bucking, sweaty throes of it, that I felt I needed to say something that was...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jan 2, 2012 | Assimilation
What are we going to work for, after all of us can get married? And what, now that we have DADT repealed? Will they really accept us then? And will we be happy? What about the people who don’t get married? Or who don’t go into the Army? Who don’t want children? What...
