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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

Standing for the anthem

2016-09-05 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

At the Olympic Games in 1968 in Mexico City Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who had won the gold and bronze medals in the 100 meter track event, raised their clenched fists during the US national anthem. Everybody understood them to be giving the Black Power salute. People said these two athletes had protested American racism in the wrong way, in public, in a foreign country, and were disrespectful … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Courage, Courage, Fighting Back, Larry Kramer Tagged With: Civil Disobedience, Colin Kaepernick

Hillary’s loss of memory

2016-03-14 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

Each day the response from LGBTQ people and their allies gets more furious. First, on Friday, March 11, 2016, two days ago, Hillary Clinton complimented Nancy Reagan on her “low-key” AIDS advocacy in the early eighties, which, she says, started a national conversation. This led to articles everywhere that called Clinton on the facts. The Reagans had not only not advocated for AIDS research or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AIDS, Anger, Coming to terms with the past, Courage, Fighting Back, Larry Kramer, The effects of bigotry, Walking wounded Tagged With: AIDS, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan

The Normal Heart, again

2014-05-27 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

Before I arrived in Boston in 1984, I didn’t know anything about AIDS, or, as it was called, Gay Cancer, or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (GRID), before AIDS was settled on in 1985. Nobody else did either. We knew that it was fatal. And we knew that they didn’t know how long a person had from infection to dying.   The first years in Boston, I was writing about the summer of 1984 in Maine … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Larry Kramer

The Normal Heart

2014-05-25 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

Tomorrow night, at nine, HBO will carry The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer’s play about the first years of the AIDS epidemic, from 1981 to 1984. It was originally produced in New York by Joseph Papp. Kramer’s play is about one of those times in the lives of men when there is a great struggle, and the stakes are as high as they ever get, when the conflicts that people faced in their own lives were … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Larry Kramer

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