by Dwight Cathcart | Feb 29, 2012 | Federal Court Cases
One result of the recent procession of federal court cases, beginning with Romer v. Evans and including Lawrence v. Texas, and the latest, the Ninth Circuit panel rejection of Prop. 8 in Perry v. Brown and Galinski v. OPM, is that we can now see that the intellectual...
by Dwight Cathcart | Feb 23, 2012 | DOMA/DADT
Today, a federal district court in California declared DOMA unconstitutional in a summary judgment. Adam B of Daily Kos calls this a “big win,” and I recommend his analysis here. Ari Ezra Waldman, of Towleroad, continues his superb job of legal analysis of these court...
by Dwight Cathcart | Feb 20, 2012 | Queer
Queer is permanently outside the culture and therefore in opposition to it. Queer does not look for a time in the future when there will be resolution, when the failures of today will be corrected and those outside brought in. Queer neither seeks nor wishes for...
by Dwight Cathcart | Feb 12, 2012 | The effects of bigotry
“It is enough to say that Proposition 8 operates with no apparent purpose but to impose on gays and lesbians, through the public law, a majority’s private disapproval of them and their relationships.”–from the 9th Circuit’s decision on Prop 8. We already knew...
by Dwight Cathcart | Feb 8, 2012 | Marriage cases
Two good places to go for commentary on the Ninth Circuit panel’s decision in the Perry v. Brown Proposition 8 case are Adam B on Daily Kos and Ari Ezra Waldman on Towleroad. I don’t know what Proposition 8 supporters are thinking right now—I don’t read that kind of...
by Dwight Cathcart | Feb 6, 2012 | Being gay
Nothing in my last post should be read to imply that having children is a necessary part of having a “rich life” for gay people. That’s it for us, and that came about when I underwent a divorce, and then when I worked for the subsequent years with my children, as they...
