Lady Bracknell and the Gay Boy

A comedy of manners

James Finn
CROSSIN(G)ENRES
Published in
7 min readFeb 11, 2019

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“It’s a comedy of manners, Jessica darling,” sniffed Pawel as he nibbled at the corner of his tuna-fish-on-white in the teachers lounge. “Very, very witty, you know.”

The department chair straightened her back and shot him a look he knew she reserved for rowdy student athletes. “Just a comedy of manners, Mr. Kozlowski? Are you quite sure our…

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.