James-Finn

When Gay Men Forget Who Their Real Enemy Is And Forget Trans Rights Support trans people or live with the shame in your chest. The disgust that once told us we were wrong is now directed at them.

The people who called you a predator for being gay? They’re calling trans women predators now. The ones who said you were grooming kids? Same word, just a different target. Drag queens. Trans teachers.
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#LGBTQ #TransRights #Bigotry #Solidarity

Being Trans & Drawing the Line Listening to the NYT conversation between Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates

Given racist and anti-trans persecution in the United States today, to what extent and in what manner we should try to persuade people when we work for change?
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #USPolitics #TransRights

Drawing Trans Lines, Celebrating Queer Family, Sharing Love Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 12 October 2025

Hey, #gay men, think throwing #trangender people under the bus will save you? Here's a gay psychotherapist who'd like to have a word. And dive deep with a gay trans man into Ezra Klein's support for #CharlieKirk. Also, share some #LGBTQ, #Queer family love with us!

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Gay Parents Adopting in the Midwest: How It Started. Life can be messy. Families are messy. But it’s a beautiful thing to create both a family and a life your own way.

Sometimes a family’s messiness is on full display. And sometimes the messiness of a family exists only in the secrets and sobbing behind a pantry door in a beautifully beige Stepford home on a cul-de-sac.
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#LGBTQ #Gay #Family #Parenting #Adoption

Mental Health, Identity, and the Quiet Pain of Being Different A reflection on the quiet weight of identity, the ache of belonging, and the courage to stay when the world feels too heavy.

It’s World Mental Health Day, and as I write this I hope to remind us all that behind every smile, every post, every carefully filtered story, there are people quietly holding things together, often by a thread.
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#LGBTQ #Queer #Identity #MentalHealth

Queer Gaming, an Appreciation of Queer Art A celebration of queer joy in gaming

Inspired by the recent Prism & Pen writing prompt, I wanted to give my take on some video games that feature positive depictions of queerness.
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#LGBTQ #QueerGaming #Gaming #QueerArt

The Cost of Hubris: A Retelling of the Greek Myth of Athena and Myrmex A story of pride, envy, and rage, explaining how Athena, after decades of suppression, handed her lover, Myrmex, the fate she was due.

Eventually, her lust for wisdom caught the attention of Athena; impressed by her quest for sagacity, she found herself drawn to the mortal whose soul hungered with a primal ache for erudition. All but her equal in intellect.
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#LGBTQ #wlw #Mythology #GreekMyth

Arcane Season 2: Queer Love as Resistance Arcane S2: In a city built on control, Vi & Caitlyn’s queer love becomes the method — not the ornament — of survival and change.

Vi and Caitlyn have moved from uneasy allies to an openly queer partnership — partners in purpose and in the field, committed to protecting each other and their city.
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#LGBTQ #Queer #Arcane #wlw #QueerLove

I Know It’s Over: Queer Love Withers On The Bloom When we can’t be who we are, how can we truly be with others?

It’s been this way a lot, the last couple of years. One of my biggest fears about coming out as #transgender was that nobody would ever love me. Foolish me, to now realise that coming out to myself was the first step in finally loving myself.
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#LGBTQ #Queer #Love

The David Bowie Album that Opened the Door to My Future I remain grateful to Bowie for inviting me into a nonbinary world.

I guess I was somewhat of a contrarian. Perhaps I still am. When the junior-high crowd was going gaga for The Beatles, I championed The Dave Clark Five. I also foolishly placed Donovan over Dylan and Brooke Benton over Ray Charles.
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#LGBTQ #Gender #Nonbinary #DavidBowie

Who Does the Monster Represent if the “Final Girl” is a Gay Boy? The enduring queer legacy of “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2”

While queer people abhor demonization in our real lives, many of us have come to identify with these disruptive outsiders and fiendish alter egos, especially if their cruelty is seasoned with flamboyance and “camp”.
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#LGBTQ #October #LGBTHistoryMonth #SpookySeason #HorrroMovies

A Trans Woman Waves a Flag for Those Less Ambitious A personal view of the alternatives to blindly chasing success.

Before I became a trans woman, back when I thought I knew it all, I would offer up the benefits of ambition to help family and friends recognize their untapped potential.
‘If only you could see what you could be’, I would exclaim.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #Ambition

Charlie & Rachel: The “G” in LGBTQ Charlie Ray and Rachel Addison Talk Letters.

This is the second in a series of informal chats on what each letter of #LGBTQ means to Charlie Ray, a trans man, and Rachel Addison, a trans woman.
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#Interview #Conversation #Transgender #Gay

Yelling at My Therapist Taught Me What Queer Anger Really Sounds Like Learning that rage can be honest, human, and healing.

Therapy isn’t easy for most. I knew that before my wife and I even started couples counseling. What I hadn’t predicted was the growing pain I would experience every single session.
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#LGBTQ #Therapy #Anger

Look out! Powers That Be Warn that Trans People Will Take Your Stuff! Powerful people know that fear of lack is a major motivator.

Autocrats have long used fear effectively to manipulate the masses into subservience and compliance. When others seem different and odd, it’s easy to make up stories about them for the purpose of fomenting fear and distrust.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #USPolitics #Fear

As Summer Fades, So Does My Libido What I hate most about autumn

It’s the bright light of summer I live for. If I lived in a more northerly latitude, there would be even more light. I recall summer nights in western Michigan when it stayed light until 10:00 p.m.
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#LGBTQ #Gay #Summer #Autumn #Seasons #Change

Two Amazing Queer Books Everyone Should Read A celebration of queer art and joy

We all know about the efforts in the US to ban books and go after art that is queer-themed, and this is obviously as good a time as any to celebrate such brilliant art.
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#LGBTQ #QueerBooks #Books #BookRecs

A Queer Night of Bhangra, Drag, and Hidden Asian Love in London A South Asian queer night taught me more about love, longing, and visibility than I was ready for.

I didn’t know what I was stepping into the first time I went to a gay Asian night in London. My friend, an incredible #gay South Asian man and drag queen, had begged me to come.
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#LGBTQ #GayBar #London #Queer

A Solo Transgender Road Trip in 2025 Finding my path toward peace near the ocean, and in the trees.

I’d been planning and putting off a visit to friends and family in the Pacific Northwest for at least 10 years. My last trip had been somewhat fraught as it turned out to be the last time for my wife to see the ocean.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #RoadTrip #Travel #Grief

Transgender ‘Why Nots’ and ‘Maybes’ Never surrender the joy of the possibility

We, as transgender people, overthink everything, from self-doubt to a sense of shame, to the fear of rejection, and then everything in between.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #Self #Identity

Is ‘Waffles!’ a New Anti-Trans Dogwhistle? Explaining the new Bluesky phrase

She was referring to a common request Bluesky management receives: Would they please apply some commonsense moderation regarding anti-trans agitator Jesse Singal? The CEO declares this request inherently nonsensical and off-topic.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #Bluesky #Waffles

Adolescent Shocker: Gay Teen Loves Handyman in ‘Griffin in Summer’ Film review

Nicholas Colia might well be the greatest living gay, Boston-raised director and screenwriter America has ever cultivated. There’s no guarantee. After all, he’s only made one feature and several shorts. But what a feature!
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#LGBTQ #GayFilm #QueerFilm #FilmReview

Creative Writing: A Retelling of the Greek Myth of Athena and Pallas Why did Athena declare herself a virgin goddess? My retelling explores the significance of her seminal, youthful relationship with Pallas.

Pallas glowed in the sunset, the water whispering her contentment as she and Athena bathed with their feet dipped in the sea. The two had trained together for some years.
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#LGBTQ #QueerFiction #GreekMyth #Goddesses

A Trans Woman’s Diary of Life In Trump’s Third Term This is a work of fiction…I hope.

Friday, June 4, 2028
I don’t know how but Trump was allowed to run for a third term. News broke today about the Supreme Court interpreting the 22nd Amendment that since Trump was not elected to two consecutive terms...
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#LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction #DystopianFiction

Trans Woman Cries Before Bedtime, Tea Time, and Any Other Time On becoming better connected with my female self, my tear ducts, and a lot of other things.

I produce tears whilst on the phone with a friend, when watching sport, as I’m telling a story about someone I truly admire, even listening to an old Huey Lewis tune last night in the car (that one was unexpected).
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #Emotions #Tears

Is Hasan Piker Right About Kamala Harris and Trans Rights? Standing up for trans people when nobody else will

Hasan said that although he voted for Kamala Harris, he sees her as surrendering trans rights, and he maintains that trans people would face problems under Democratic leadership similar to what they’re facing under Trump.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #USPolitics

Imagine You’re 19 on the European After-Hours Gay Scene You’ve just finished work. Something inside you is screaming to be heard.

From the moment you walk through the door, you’re in the middle of it. I’m sure you know some people whose living rooms are bigger than this space. In the corner of the dance floor, behind a small bar, there’s a corridor.
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#LGBTQ #Queer #Gay #Memoir #Identity

When Your Identity Is Treated Like a Phase Being bisexual means living in the in-between — and fighting to be seen as whole.

Bisexuality isn’t confusion, it’s clarity — but the world still insists on erasing it.
In my case, it looks like invisibility. Most of my friends just treat me as another straight woman.
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#LGBTQ #Queer #Bisexual #Invisibility #BiErasure #Identity

No More Conversion Therapy, I’m a Lesbian: An Apology to My First Love I wish I could say more to you, Ines

Dear Ines,
You were not someone I had planned for, but instead, were the person my story sorely needed.
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#LGBTQ #Lesbian #ConversionTherapy #FirstLove #LoveLetter

A PACK A DAY — a poem it hasn’t got to us

You smoked a pack of cigarettes
outside the club every weekend
I took one pull from each
while talking about
lung cancer statistics
and you said...
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#LGBTQ #Poetry #QueerPoetry #Loneliness