Queer Christmas and Other Holiday Havoc

A Prism & Pen writers prompt

James Finn
Prism & Pen
Published in
5 min readDec 5, 2022

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This stylized photo (CC BY 2.0) by artist Kevin Dooley presents a particular idea about queer winter holidays. What are your ideas?

Did you know a coalition of Catholic and Protestant clergy in a Texas city are freaking out as they try to exclude LGBTQ people (read: drag queens, transgender folks, obvious gay men and lesbians) from an annual Christmas parade? That’s what my next story is about, so I won’t spill many beans, but I find the controversy unspeakably sad.

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.