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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 11

2018-11-25 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

1 Neil Armstrong was difficult to live with and probably denied Janet, his wife, and his sons what they may have wanted most from him—warmth and love—but Armstrong stumbled into the one place on Earth where what was wanted from him was exactly what he had to offer—a man with an encyclopedic memory, a scientific orderliness to his mind unperturbed by emotion. If he had ever allowed the churning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coming out, Earthrise, eBooks, The First Man, The First Man Tagged With: gay political novels, publishing, Ryan Gosling, The First Man

Earthrise 10

2018-09-25 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

Winter Rain 1 I set out to write a gay novel about alcoholism, and when I completed it and then couldn’t get it published, I put it in a box on the floor at the back of my closet. It eventually was moved to my first computer, and then moved from computer to computer. The editor who had rejected it had suggested that I try other publishers—these decisions were inevitably subjective, he said—but I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AIDS, Anger, Earthrise, eBooks, Gay literature, Gay Pride, Where meaning comes from, Winter Rain, Writing Tagged With: AIDS activism, gay political novels, Gays fighting back, Grieving gay men, Race Point Light, stigmatizing gay people, the homosexual context, walking wounded, Winter Rain

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

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