(How) Have LGBTQ Film & Literature Shaped You?

A Prism & Pen writers prompt

James Finn
Prism & Pen
Published in
7 min readMar 6, 2024

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When I was a little kid, I hated the yearly televised version of MGM’s The Wizard of Oz. No, that’s not fair. It scared the snot out of me, quite literally. Dad would make popcorn, Mom would get us kids settled in our pajamas, and we’d all wait for the magic to start. When the Wicked Witch of the West appeared, I’d hold my breath and…

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James Finn
Prism & Pen

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.