by Dwight Cathcart | Mar 29, 2012 | Coming out
In Ceremonies, Mickey gives two television interviews. In the first his face is lit so he can’t be recognized, and when he sees the broadcast of the interview, Mickey sees what he has done: The reporter, on screen, is a warm and vibrant person with attractive...
by Dwight Cathcart | Mar 27, 2012 | Coming out
In Ceremonies, after Mickey came out to his sister, and then to his mother the next day, he found he had to come out to his friend at work. He took his friend Charles to a fast food restaurant on the highway. After some preliminary talk about cars and tires and...
by Dwight Cathcart | Mar 26, 2012 | Coming out
In Ceremonies, a young woman is walking down the street, preparing to attend a memorial service for a friend. She turns the corner and sees TV lights focused on the door of the church. If she continues to the door, she will walk past these TV cameras. She says to her...
by Dwight Cathcart | Mar 18, 2012 | Coming out
Ian Parker, writing in The New Yorker, says about Tyler Clementi, “there was no posting, no observed sex, and no closet.” Writing at the same time, Angus Johnston, of the website Student Activism, says, “‘Out’ is not a binary concept, and it’s not at all...
by Dwight Cathcart | Mar 7, 2012 | Film
I found a short video on Towleroad today, Man in the Mirror, in which it is said that a “closeted jock faces outing in Joel Schumacher’s short.” It is also on PBS.org. Jason is an athlete, a high school senior, maybe seventeen years old, beautiful, a Puerto...
