by Dwight Cathcart | Sep 29, 2014 | Being gay
Publishers are businesses and so need to make money. Nobody disagrees with this. As Dan D’Addario said in Salon last year, “Publishing is not a charitable endeavor.” Publishers choose book manuscripts to publish and market to a public that it hopes will buy, so the...
by Dwight Cathcart | Sep 29, 2014 | Being gay
Ari Ezra Waldman has put up a post on Towleroad discussing what’s happening at the Supreme Court right now (3:35 pm, September 29, 2014). They’re meeting for the first time since June to consider petitions for certiorari. Seven of these petitions concern marriage...
by Dwight Cathcart | Sep 27, 2014 | Being gay
“Gay life is this object out there that’s waiting to be written about. A lot of people think we’ve exhausted all the themes of gay fiction, but we’ve just barely touched on them.” Edmund White This is not a new idea: people have written about it before. I wrote about...
by Dwight Cathcart | Sep 15, 2014 | Being gay, Fighting Back
While something like half of the commentariat is predicting that the Supreme Court will choose, in its late September 2014 conference, to take marriage equality cases in some form or other, and will give marriage equality in its June 2015 decision to every mother’s...
by Dwight Cathcart | Sep 5, 2014 | Coming out
Coming out is a big subject, it’s important to just about all of us, it means many different things to different ones of us, and it’s changing all the time. I had a friend in college—we never talked about our sexuality back in 1957—and at first we took the...
