James Finn
Jul 3, 2023

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Indeed. And I think that general societal attitudes can be as triggering as familial trauma. Have you seen the new Belgian film "Close." A winner at Cannes and an Oscar nominee, the film examines the tender friendship of two boys just entering adolescence. Their friendships, and their lives in a certain sense, are destroyed by societal responses to their tenderness, which had never for them held a sexual component.

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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