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As ICE Kills Americans, This Gay Man’s Neighbors Lack Healthcare and Food

Our leaders sure have messed-up priorities!

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Oct 2, 2025

A Queer Veteran Listens to Pete Hegseth and Mourns

I joined the military at 17, and I have something to say

Pete Hegseth in a shirt and tie with one sleeve rolled up showing a We The People tattoo. He has locked fists in a friendly way with Conor McGregor, who is wearing a suit, tie and jacket, showing a gold watch.

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Nov 25, 2025

This Depraved, Disordered, Queer F-Word Shed Tears of Anguish Yesterday

This atheist who loves Christmas can’t understand support for hatred and hate speech

This Depraved, Disordered, Queer F-Word Shed Tears of Anguish Yesterday

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Mar 12, 2025

Transphobic Male Cops Force Young Lesbians from Walmart Women’s Room

Then they escort the young women out of the store and order them not to return. Echoes of Stonewall?

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Sep 5, 2024

Transgender Teen Jayden Tkaczyk is the Face of an American Moral Crisis

Say his name, please, as you also think about an anonymous trans girl in Florida

teen with one badly bruised eye speaks into a reporter’s microphone. his mom stands next to him. they are in front of a house with wooden siding and flowering bushes.

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Queer Tales: Uncovering History, Roads to Freedom, & Dodging a Fighter Jet

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Queer Tales: Uncovering History, Roads to Freedom, & Dodging a Fighter Jet

Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 12 July 2026

Queer Tales: Uncovering History, Roads to Freedom, & Dodging a Fighter Jet

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Jul 7

What Next, We Queer People Ask. What Road Do We Take?

A Prism & Pen writers prompt

What Next, We Queer People Ask. What Road Do We Take?

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Jul 5

P&P This Week: A Supreme Court Decision, the NY Times, and Real Queer Lives

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P&P This Week: A Supreme Court Decision, the NY Times, and Real Queer Lives

Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 5 July 2026

P&P This Week: A Supreme Court Decision, the NY Times, and Real Queer Lives

James Finn

James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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