Suffering for Faith — LGBTQ Kids

On tears and rejecting harmful belief systems

James Finn
Prism & Pen
Published in
6 min readMar 23, 2019

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Parents who try to change their child’s sexual orientation increase suicide risk significantly / LGBTQ Nation

I cried as I fell asleep —

My own fault, really. I shouldn’t have been reading Braden’s Story by Mason Dodd. As an aspiring author of LGBTQ YA fiction, I read a lot. Knowing my genre is part of the job. This one knocked me for a loop.

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.