by Dwight Cathcart | Jul 7, 2013 | Coming to terms with the past
It’s satisfying, having access to a right that everybody else has access to, and to have that right unencumbered by any factor. These rights are inherent and do not come from the Constitution. Justice Kennedy recognized that. We can get married. Our marriages are...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 26, 2013 | Celebration
I went into town to find a demonstration of happy gay people, but the only demonstration I could find was in front of the State House around a man running as a Democrat for Congress. Everybody seemed happy, but they didn’t seem gay. I crossed the street. There were...
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 | May 16, 2013 | Tim DeChristopher
Tim DeChristopher has just gotten out of prison, having served two years for attempting to disrupt the sale of oil leases of land in Utah. His civil disobedience, which began under the Bush administration and continued under the Obama administration, is welcome news,...
by Dwight Cathcart | May 11, 2013 | Coming out
S. L. Price, writing in Sports Illustrated, May 6, 2013, quotes Patrick Burke on the subject of Burke’s brother’s coming out. “When your brother comes to you and tells you, ‘I’m gay,’ if you say anything other than, ‘Great, I love you, I don’t care,’ that’s where the...
