James Finn
Feb 7, 2025

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Raising my hand. I was one of them, toward the very end. Even as the Cold War was all but over, I was pressured out of my national security career because I was gay.

A polygraph machine, hot lights, two very hostile FBI agents, the works. In 1989, so not exactly ancient history!

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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