by Dwight Cathcart | Aug 31, 2012 | Being gay
Right now, I can’t escape thinking about politics and our choices. The question that occupies me is raised in my walks around the city by the demands made on me—on my time and energy—by various groups asking for money and support, by a homeless man holding a sign,...
by Dwight Cathcart | Aug 25, 2012 | This website
Check this one out. It’s a car ad, and it’s running in Japan only. It raises the issues we’ve been talking about here—the beauty of men and of women, the range of possibilities before us which may or may not include sex, the essential need for surprise, a...
by Dwight Cathcart | Aug 22, 2012 | Fighting Back, SCOTUS
Now it is time to focus on the Supreme Court. Here are the stakes: Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born in 1933, Stephen Breyer in 1938, and Anthony Kennedy in 1936. These three justices were part of the majority in both major GLBT civil rights cases of the last...
by Dwight Cathcart | Aug 17, 2012 | Being gay, Who can tell?
Last week people wanted John Travolta to come out, and he wouldn’t, and then writers retracted their requests, ending up with statements like, “Nobody’s personal life is my business.” We think very badly about sex in our culture. Mary Elizabeth Williams,...
by Dwight Cathcart | Aug 5, 2012 | AIDS, Fighting Back
My partner is out of town for the weekend, and this afternoon I went by myself to Dark Knight Rises. Much of the outdoor shooting takes place on Wall Street in pitched battles between the New York police and the bad guys. In the first image, Wall Street is cleared of...
