by Dwight Cathcart | Aug 17, 2013 | Fighting Back
This week the news is out of Russia and has to do with the anti-gay laws there, their effects on Russian LGBT people and on the Winter Olympics 2014, and what the rest of the world is going to do about it. First response was from gay bars around the world dumping...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 26, 2013 | SCOTUS
What we are looking at here is a developing definition of gay man that is very porous. There isn’t really such a thing. Alfred Kinsey collected data on sexual histories that resulted in his creation of a seven point scale in which he said everyone could be placed....
by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 25, 2013 | SCOTUS
When I was growing up, everybody around me—my parents, my grandparents, my sister and brother, my cousins, my scoutmaster, my teachers, the priest, politicians—thought the same way about how I was feeling. I was definitely aroused by men and by particular aspects of...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 25, 2013 | SCOTUS
In this video (one of “Law Talks” that I have just discovered), Ari discusses the effect of the decisions already announced on the decisions not announced and on the drive of gay people for equality. Watch it here.
by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 25, 2013 | SCOTUS
Ari Ezra Waldman has a post up on Towleroad about the implications of the affirmative action decision for the marriage cases tomorrow. The post can be read here.
by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 24, 2013 | SCOTUS
Ari Ezra Waldman and Towleroad published the fourth post in the run-up to the Supreme Court decisions this week. He gives us eight things to keep in mind when we read the decisions. Here is the
by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 23, 2013 | SCOTUS
It’s at the end of the last, the third, night of the fighting, people are drifting away, some of them to go down to the piers for sex and some to the trucks, but our guys are still sitting on the high stoop next door to the Stonewall, watching and listening to things...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 22, 2013 | SCOTUS
Yesterday I posted two links to Ari Ezra Waldman’s posts on Towleroad under the heading “Gay Rights After SCOTUS.” Here is a third. It’s on “The Future of Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships.” I’ll keep up with Ari’s posts and will pass on the links...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 21, 2013 | SCOTUS
Towleroad and Ari Ezra Waldman are aware that the Supreme Court will probably be releasing the decisions in the marriage cases Friday morning, June 28, 2013. Ari is running a series of explanatory blog posts in preparation for these decisions, which promise to...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 8, 2013 | SCOTUS
This month, the Supreme Court will decide the Prop 8 case, known as Hollingsworth v. Perry, and the DOMA case, known as US v. Windsor. An analysis of what these cases are and what they mean for the gay community and the prospects for a gay success can be found on...
by Dwight Cathcart | May 29, 2013 | Fighting Back
We have to fight to improve our situation in America, in order to become, as the character Joseph says in Adam in the Morning, “Americans,” merely coming out won’t do it. The post before last was the second of two on Tim DeChristopher and an elaboration of his...
by Dwight Cathcart | May 21, 2013 | Fighting Back
Tim DeChristopher said, in his sentencing statement, “Since [the] bedrock acts of civil disobedience by our founding fathers, the rule of law in this country has continued to grow closer to our shared higher moral code through the civil disobedience that drew...
by Dwight Cathcart | Apr 24, 2013 | Fighting Back
Violence—bombs, guns, ethnic slurs—has been so close to us in Boston this week that it’s been difficult to think. One of the threads of this blog has been the need for us to fight back, and various people have asked me what my books are about, and I’ve said, They’re...
by Dwight Cathcart | Apr 19, 2013 | Courage, Fighting Back
My last post was called “How things work,” published April 7, in which I wrote about my encounter with a young man doing missionary work for the Mormon church, as I walked home after picking up something at Home Depot. The young man was polite and friendly, and I...
by Dwight Cathcart | Apr 8, 2013 | Fighting Back
I was walking back from Home Depot, when I found myself walking almost parallel with a young man in a pin-stripe suit and tie. He wasn’t dressed for Home Depot. We nodded. He smiled. I smiled. We walked on, and then I asked him if he was a Mormon. I pointed out that...
by Dwight Cathcart | Apr 1, 2013 | Fighting Back
All this is getting hard to take. Chris Matthews was just addressing the question, Why have numbers changed so quickly in favor of equal marriage? His answer and the answer of his guests, was that it had to do with the numbers of gay people who have come out. Every...
