by Dwight Cathcart | Oct 25, 2012 | Elections 2012
Remember the Supreme Court. Remember how fragile is the majority in Roe v. Wade and the majority in Lawrence v. Texas. These are essential cases, defining the kind of nation we live in. If the Supreme Court reverses itself in either one, the place...
by Dwight Cathcart | Oct 18, 2012 | Coming out
Coming out—both the action and the word—differs depending on where you live. It seems it has always been easier to come out in coastal California and in the Northeast than in the South and the middle parts of the country. It has been easier in New York, Los Angeles,...
by Dwight Cathcart | Oct 14, 2012 | Coming out
Conventional wisdom would have us believe that the period before we came out, was a terrible place. The closet. Billeh, in the Daily Kos, quotes Paul Monette, who calls it a “hidden life,” and “half a life.” This is the way gay writers and politicians think about what...
by Dwight Cathcart | Oct 11, 2012 | Coming out, Uncategorized
As long as our culture is homophobic, many gay people are going to feel they have to come out. It’s an act of courage, self-defense and self-respect. But I don’t think we think often about what we do when we come out and about what it means. Few people think...
by Dwight Cathcart | Oct 1, 2012 | Fighting Back, Larry Kramer
Before AIDS, people got sick, went to their doctors, were told what to do, and got better—or worse and died—and that didn’t change until HIV had been among us for five years or so. Since the drug companies weren’t coming out with effective medications, and since the...
