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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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George Herbert Walker Bush

2018-12-03 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

The Congress, at this moment, is delivering eulogies in the Capitol Rotunda. Somebody said, “A man of grace.” Vice-President Pence was moved to say, “He was a good man.” Well, no. George Herbert Walker Bush, in his campaign for president, accepted the help of the infamous “Willie Horton ad.” It was the first “dog whistle”—that is, racist—ad in my lifetime, which is clearly not the ad of a “good … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coming to terms with the past, Larry Kramer

Earthrise 4

2018-06-13 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

During most of my life, there has been only one way to get a manuscript into format in which everybody can read it, and that is through the publishing industry, owned and operated by large corporations whose expertise is in making money, not literature. They do it by making books and selling them. They do it by thinking in terms of a print-run of, say, 10,000 copies, in which the publisher’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: bookstores, Coming to terms with the past, Courage, Daniel D'Addario, Earthrise, eBooks, Gay literature, In Search of Lost Time, Sodom and Gomorrah, Where meaning comes from Tagged With: gay political novels, Gays fighting back, the homosexual context

Earthrise 3

2018-05-30 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

This, said to us by the man who says of himself, “Call me Ishmael:” It [the spermiceti] had cooled and crystallized to such a degree, that when, with several others, I sat down before a large Constantine’s bath of it, I found it strangely concreted into lumps, here and there, rolling about in the liquid part. It was our business to squeeze these lumps back into fluid. A sweet and unctious duty! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alcoholism, Coming to terms with the past, Earthrise, Gay literature, inclusive gay community, language, Memory, the South Tagged With: Cathcart, writing

Earthrise 2

2018-05-11 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

Two weeks ago, on April 26, 2018, the Legacy Museum and Memorial for Peace and Justice opened in Montgomery, Alabama, funded by the Equal Justice Institute. This is the only museum and memorial in this nation dedicated to the victims of the crime of lynching. The memorial is a large building, open to the outdoors, in which steel cases or boxes hang from the ceiling, and, it is said, when you enter … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coming to terms with the past, Earthrise, Freeing yourself of it, Gay literature, Save the raw material, Where meaning comes from

January 20, 2017

2017-01-20 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

Many people are quoting Martin Luther King’s “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” And many people believe that means that eventually things are going to get better. But you know that’s bullshit. There is no “moral universe.” And we don’t know what it tends toward, if anything. What we do know is that our constitutional structure is fragile, and the election of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adam in the Morning, Anger, Barack Obama, Ceremonies, Coming to terms with the past, Courage, Fighting Back, gay community, Generational Divide, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Michelle Obama, Race Point Light, Stonewall National Monument, The Myth of Sisyphus, Winter Rain, Writing Tagged With: 2017, Gays fighting back, How do we connect to the past, January 20, What we ask of the future

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