James Finn
Apr 4, 2022

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Exactly, the people doing the pushing and shoving were men, but the woman bartender was just as hostile over their mild gender nonconformity, their obvious gayness. If I stop and think back on my life, I seem to remember fewer women than men being problematic in their homophobia, but by no means was this a rule of thumb. The first homophobic bigot I was ever great wounded by, after all, was Anita Bryant.

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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