by Dwight Cathcart | Oct 27, 2013 | Stonewall Riots
At the end of the Stonewall Riots, in my novel Adam in the Morning, four men are sitting on the high stoop of the building just west of the Stonewall Inn. It is eleven or twelve, the night of July 2, 1969, and the men are resting after fighting New York cops for five...
by Dwight Cathcart | Oct 19, 2013 | Fighting Back, Walking wounded
Many people—both gay and straight people—think because gay people can be married in thirteen states that we have solved that problem, and, at least in those thirteen states, we can move on to other issues. That’s only partly true. Think of the long fight for...
by Dwight Cathcart | Oct 4, 2013 | Marriage
It is inevitably a political act, for men, for women, regardless of whether they are marrying someone of the same sex or the opposite sex. It is a political act for economic reasons, and, for gay people, it has been a political act since the first gay person asked for...
