James Finn
1 min readJun 2, 2024

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This reminds me that Christina Pushaw, when she was Press Secretary for Governor Ron DeSantis, popularized the "groomer" label for queer people with an infamous tweet with a photo of a drag queen stripping and interacting with children, at least one of whom was stuffing a dollar bill into her g-string.

Only, she wasn't a drag queen. And there was no drag show going on. She was a burlesque artist, a stripper, working at a club frequented by straight people rather then queer people.

Pushaw never, not one single time, acknowledged her blatant lie.

But at least Pushaw's boss lost his bid for the Republican nomination for president, and she's now seeking relevance but not finding it.

This is what we face. People will just make shit up about us so long is it furthers their goal of making us disappear.

But I'm glad to see that a jury in Idaho wasn't going for that!

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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