LGBTQ Parenting and Families, Hostile School Climates, and Some Great News

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James Finn
3 min readNov 19, 2023

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James Finn

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.