Brad — Act Up Hero, Lover, Friend

Portrait of a man, the beginning

James Finn
James Finn - The Blog
9 min readMar 23, 2020

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Thanks for coming to see me.

Nobody really does anymore. I get it, they’re busy. Plus I smell so bad, I make myself sick. Gross, right? And sometimes when I look in the mirror, I wanna heave.

They call me Brad. It’s really Broderick, but I always hated that name.

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James Finn
James Finn - The Blog

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.