by Dwight Cathcart | Apr 30, 2012 | Being gay, Teenage Suicides
Another gay teenager committed suicide last week. Apparently, we don’t know details yet. Towleroad has the bare facts. Jack Reese, seventeen years old, killed himself near Ogden, Utah, last week just as his eighteen-year-old boyfriend was about to take part in...
by Dwight Cathcart | Apr 25, 2012 | Coming out
On Towleroad, Krista Tillman, who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and is a mother of a young gay man (she’s also a dean of her college) explains why her gay son doesn’t live in North Carolina. “It’s not as open and accepting as other places are.” She tells what she...
by Dwight Cathcart | Apr 16, 2012 | Coming out
When a person is on the edge between in and out, he is not often faced with a binary decision, either in or out. He is faced with a range of possibilities, only one of which is, in the particular situation, coming out. He may decide to do nothing. He may decide to...
by Dwight Cathcart | Apr 5, 2012 | Coming out
Tyler Clementi was in the process of coming out when he died. We can’t know how he felt. Tyler is the only person who could know how he felt and the only person who could know how far he had gone on the process toward coming out. It is appropriate here to...
