Dwight Cathcart & Adriana Books

Dwight Cathcart writes on politics, publishing, gay literature, gay people, and his four novels, Ceremonies, Winter Rain, Race Point Light, and Adam in the Morning.

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Earthrise 9

2018-08-28 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

Adam in the Morning At one in the morning, 28 June 1969, the New York policemen from the 6th Precinct, led by Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine, raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, on Christopher Street in the West Village in New York. This was normal. The cops had raided the same bar earlier that week, and they had raided three other bars in the weeks before. What was unusual that night was that, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adam in the Morning, Anger, Earthrise, gay community, Gay literature, Stonewall Riots, Straight marriage, Uncategorized Tagged With: Adam in the Morning, gay political novels, Gays fighting back, Stonewall riots, the homosexual context, What we ask of the future

Earthrise 7

2018-07-28 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

Race Point Light This novel begins in Provincetown, out on the end of Cape Cod, and ends in Provincetown sixty years later. It has one narrator, who sticks with the task all the way through the novel, and it has one subject—the narrator’s life—and one focus, the narrator’s life as a gay man. It begins when the narrator is about two, and it ends when the narrator is about sixty-five. Along the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AIDS, Alcoholism, Ceremonies, Earthrise, Fighting Back, Gay literature, inclusive gay community, Stonewall Riots, Straight marriage, Where meaning comes from Tagged With: Ceremonies, gay political novels, LGBTQ principles, Race Point Light

Sex and the bright line

2015-11-29 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

  The man’s name is Nyle DiMarco, and he describes himself as “sexually fluid.” His picture and the article about him—he’s worth reading about—appeared in Towleroad this week. What is interesting about him is the idea of someone being sexually fluid. What does that mean? Are we all sexually fluid? Is this what Kinsey was talking about when he described his “continuum?” Five days ago, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alan Turing, APA, bisexuality, Coming out, Compulsion of time, Freedom, language, Sexuality, Straight marriage, Words and their meanings Tagged With: Kinsey's continuum

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