by Dwight Cathcart | Mar 31, 2015 | Film, Nashville
I lived in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1963 to 1968. Nashville meant country music, but if you read in the histories of the civil rights movement, you’d know that many of the major advances were led by students from Fisk, the historically black college in Nashville....
by Dwight Cathcart | Mar 26, 2015 | Fighting Back, SCOTUS
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a badass. Dahlia Lithwick, in Slate, tells us how she got that way and whether she’s happy being called that, and whether it’s OK for people who support the ascendency of women to use terms like that to describe a longtime feminist. It’s a great...
by Dwight Cathcart | Mar 23, 2015 | Alcoholism
I quit drinking today, in 1979. I started swimming every day, and then lifting. I accepted that I was gay, and I no longer hung out with anyone who wasn’t able to accept a sober, gay me. I divorced my wife and began the process of getting my relationships with my...
by Dwight Cathcart | Mar 16, 2015 | Celebration, Coming to terms with the past, Fighting Back, Freedom, The future
“A new survey out this week shows that support for marriage equality is at 59% with just 33% opposed. This means that marriage equality is slightly more popular than the Pope.” Matt Baume, American Foundation for Equal Rights. The link is to a video, with Matt Baume...
by Dwight Cathcart | Mar 1, 2015 | Alan Turing, Being gay, The effects of bigotry
Yesterday we found that Leonard Nimoy died. His character gave us the belief that it would be possible to live rationally, and even though many people loved Spock, it is probably true that it was never possible to live totally rationally. The Imitation Game is a...
