James Finn
Dec 19, 2023

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When I was 16 or 17, and rumors started flying around that I was gay, my Baptist youth pastor and pastor quite generously offered to send me to a camp where I could be transformed and turned straight. "Don't worry if your mom can't afford it. Your church family will cover the cost."

I didn't want to go, and Mom didn't have me kidnapped.

Am I surprised? You decide. Sigh.

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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