James Finn
Aug 12, 2021

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Look, I'm going to call racists names. I know you wouldn't have a problem with that. I'm going to call anti-LGBTQ bigots names too. Because I'm grown up, not despite it. Bigotry is bigotry and bigots deserve to be shamed, shunned, and shouted down - socially stigmatized. I don't need your lecturing me about treating disgusting bigots with civility. I refuse to do that as I have rightly refused since I first took to the streets with Act Up and Queer Nation. My emotions and my positions are right and good and proper and moral. I will never stop being those things, no matter that prudes try to suppress me.

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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