by Dwight Cathcart | Sep 30, 2015 | Stonewall Riots
I can see why Stonewall, by Roland Emmerich, has been widely and thoroughly savaged, even to the point of a call for a boycott. The movie has been attacked for having a white, straight-acting actor who plays Dannie from Indiana. Dannie is widely described as being...
by Dwight Cathcart | Sep 18, 2015 | Ta-Nehisi Coates
Prince Jones, a friend of Ta-Nehisi Coates, “exhibited the whole of his given name.” Coates says, “He was handsome. He was tall and brown, built thin and powerful like a wide receiver. He was the son of a prominent doctor. He was born again, a state I did not share,...
by Dwight Cathcart | Sep 7, 2015 | Fighting Back, Marriage, Marriage cases, SCOTUS, Sexuality, the South
I was in the Back Bay Thursday, on the second floor of the Library, when I saw the headline, US Clerk jailed for gay marriage defiance; dispute goes on. I was on the subway coming back to Somerville, ruminating on the headline. It made people think of the sixties. I...
