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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 and Channing Smith

2019-10-16 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

I wrote this a week ago: It is a truth that LGBTQ+IA persons do not have a literature that reflects us. We have a literature that reflects some of us, and we have a literature that reflects many of us partially. We don’t have a literature that reflects how varied the community is and how different we can be, one from another. How differently we are treated and how differently we respond to our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anger, Being gay, Channing Smith, Coming to terms with the past, Courage, Earthrise, Freeing yourself of it, gay community, Gay kid, Marriage cases, Queer, Reparations, Sexuality, suicide, Teenage Suicides, Words and their meanings, Writing Tagged With: Channing Smith, Earthrise, LGBTQ suicides

Earthrise 5

2018-07-07 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

Ceremonies  When my friend Charles Howard was murdered on July 7, 1984, in Bangor, Maine, I had already quit my job teaching and was planning to leave Bangor at the end of the summer, in about two months. After Charlie’s murder, and thinking that someone was going to write a book about this—it needed to be written down—I collected a box of flyers and newspaper clippings for the person to use … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ceremonies, Earthrise, Gay literature, LGBTQ suicide, Middlebrow Queer, Teenage Suicides, Writing Tagged With: Ceremonies, Charlie Howard, gay political novels, Gays fighting back, Grieving gay men, the homosexual context, What we ask of the future

Marriage equality and suicide

2017-02-25 by Dwight Cathcart 1 Comment

Now we learn that when our culture demonstrates it can be inclusive, then fewer teenagers try to kill themselves. That seems clear enough, and it ought to drive the whole nation into the welcoming arms of the Democratic Party. Here are the details. The scientists are Julia Raifman, ScD, Johns Hopkins; Ellen Moscoe, MA, Harvard School of Public Health; and S. Bryn Austin, ScD, Boston … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Being gay, LGBTQ suicide, Marriage, Teenage Suicides, Words and their meanings Tagged With: LGBTQ suicides

My books, money, value, the somber truth

2017-01-10 by Dwight Cathcart 2 Comments

I read an article on Slate today on writing and money, and it compels me to respond. The point of the article is the fact that so few writers actually make any money at their writing. Just about all writers are supported by doing something else, like teaching, and yet it seems that just about everybody is confused about what confers worth on a book. Do sales confer worth? Do reviews? Publishing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adam in the Morning, Alcoholism, Barack Obama, Being gay, Bookstores, bookstores, Ceremonies, Coming to terms with the past, eBooks, Gay literature, Publishing, Race Point Light, The effects of bigotry, Uncategorized, Walking wounded, Winter Rain, Writing Tagged With: Adam in the Morning, Ceremonies, Gays fighting back, How do we connect to the past, Race Point Light, stigmatizing gay people, Stonewall riots, the future, walking wounded, What we ask of the future, Winter Rain

Reparations (2)

2016-01-31 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

Reparation is an act of reconciliation.* This is the oldest (1348, and now obsolete) meaning of   this word in English, and this meaning continues to lie submerged beneath more modern meanings. Two persons or communities, which have been divided by something in their past,  reconcile one to another in an act called reparation. Later meanings of the word include wrong-doing by one of the two … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AIDS, APA, Coming to terms with the past, DOMA & DADT, Fighting Back, Stonewall Riots, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Teenage Suicides Tagged With: Reparations

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