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 8

2018-08-05 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

Race Point Light What kind of person is Fair Shaw? Only partially like me, I should say at the beginning. Taller, darker, more handsome, certainly sexier, that long dolorous list of qualities that show we don’t measure up. I think he is more in control of his emotions than I am, less resentful, less angry, more charming. More athletic. Because, at seven, being athletic on the playground is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AIDS, Alcoholism, Ceremonies, Courage, Daniel D'Addario, Fighting Back, Middlebrow Queer, Publishing, Race Point Light, Writing Tagged With: gay political novels, Gays fighting back, Race Point Light, the homosexual context

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

The political novel: 2

2016-11-06 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

Even though I didn’t have many extended, free-wheeling conversations with friends about the military’s rules against my serving (I served anyway), still the fact that what I was doing sexually was a crime occupied me deeply. A novel about me during the sixties in graduate school which didn’t show that I agonized over the fact that my culture had set up all sorts of barriers to my living freely and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A single man, APA, Charles Howard, Coming to terms with the past, Gay literature, Generational Divide, Middlebrow Queer, Publishing, Sexuality, The Gay Revolution, Writing Tagged With: gay political novels

RIP Tom Britt

2016-10-01 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

In 1957, when we were students at a school in Tennessee (I was eighteen), students understood that it was against the law to engage in same-sex sex. You could be arrested, tried, and convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for a felony. What I think we were more immediately afraid of was that somebody might say, “You’re queer,” and report us to the dean of men or to our fraternity brothers. We … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anger, Coming to terms with the past, Gay kid, Gay literature, Generational Divide, Middlebrow Queer, Sexuality Tagged With: Homophobia, the CIA, the Fifties

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