My own fault, really. I shouldn’t have been reading Braden’s Story by Mason Dodd. As an aspiring author of LGBTQ YA fiction, I read a lot. Knowing my genre is part of the job. This one knocked me for a loop.
“Let me be clear in this communication,” wrote Michigan school superintendent Michael Sharrow. “There is no truth whatsoever to this false statement/accusation! There have never been litter boxes within MPS schools.”
Sharrow, who runs Midland Public Schools near Bay City, Michigan, told reporters he felt embarrassed and astonished he had…
by James Finn
Hard trans truths to piss you off, meth-fueled gay sex, transcendent urban fiction, gorgeous poetry, a grieving mother whose daughter is dead because of conversion therapy, and fierce queer stereotype smashers. This week’s Prism & Pen!
A Christian adoption agency that’s part of a progressive denomination just used a Tennessee law to stop a Jewish couple from adopting a child, who now languishes in state care. The same agency had already used the law for its intended purpose — to refuse to work with prospective LGBTQ…
Frank discussion of LGBTQ mental health crises and suicide follow. If you’re a young person in crisis, please reach out to Trevor Project, where trained counselors are waiting to help you around the clock. Or call the National Suicide Prevention LGBTQ Lifeline.
Canada just outlawed conversion “therapy,” making it a…
The New York Times Book Review calls Mike Muñoz “a Holden Caulfield for a new millennium,” and maybe that’s overhyped, but it’s not wildly off base. Mike is the quirky-cool protagonist of Lawn Boy, Jonathan Evison’s latest novel. Evison is pretty cool himself. His dialogue always crackles, his settings are…
Every Sunday, I write up the Prism & Pen weekly Digest. Every Sunday, I mutter under my breath when I see outstanding stories that got barely any views. And guess what? I don’t mutter about the unwashed masses ignoring quality storytelling. …
I have lots of women friends and enough fruit in my boot to run a fruit cocktail factory. I haven’t seen the inside of a church in decades. And, sweety? I stir up a mean Cosmo as I binge Absolutely Fabulous. (What what what? Never heard of AbFab? Ooh lah…
by James Finn
A loving Catholic priest, two foul Catholic bishops, a lesbian love story, a meth-fueled gay memoir, a gay triad, a trans woman discovering truth through porn, and … whew! That’s just scratching the surface of P&P this week!
Writer. Runner. Marine. Airman. Former LGBTQ and HIV activist. Former ActUpNY and Queer Nation. Polyglot. Middle-aged, uppity faggot. jamesfinnwrites@gmail.com
