James Finn
Sep 4, 2024

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Looking forward to it! You've got some real treasure there with old family photos, by the way. Gregory was a very handsome man, and with these photos it's clear he wasn't coping with ugly-duckling syndrome. Lol.

That photo of him in the oxford shirt with a sweater reminds me of how I dressed in high school. I was struggling to present as a very "good boy." It was very important to me at that time to be "respectable," while coping with the truth that I was gay.

And took me a lot of years to learn to accept myself.

I think maybe Gregory had an easier time than I did! Maybe that's something you'll write about in the future.

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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