Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ptsfc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!intelca!qantel!dual!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw From: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Holidays for gays Message-ID: <239@ptsfc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 18:15:46 EST Article-I.D.: ptsfc.239 Posted: Wed Dec 19 18:15:46 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 01:01:31 EST References: <1209@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco Lines: 34 IMy lover and I celebrate the holidays differently every year. This is not really by choice, but more by circumstance. He's a nurse and is normally expected to work either Christmas Day or New Year's Eve - he seems to alternate from year to year. As both our parents are dead and our siblings are widely scattered, there is really no question of our joining *family* for the season, so we tend to have a mix of quiet-evenings-together and festive-parties-with-friends. We sometimes throw a Christmas Party; one time we went to see "Meet Me In St Louis" at the Castro Theatre, followed by Moo Shoo Pork at the Chinese Restaurant across the street; another time, we went to a black tie party in London; another time was snowbound in Tahoe with a hot-tub and a bottle of champagne. We've made a tradition of breaking with *tradition*. The one *tradition*, which now seems to be one without which Christmas wouldn't be Christmas, is the Tree Trimming Party at our friend Bill's. Every year, Bill invites 10-20 people to help adorn his tree - he believes in hanging at least one light and one ornament from every twig to create an affect described by one regular invitee as Very Italian. The theme of the party varies from year to year - we've had Irish Coffee Evenings, Egg Nog Afternoons, Champagne Brunches - but the tree is always the same. The same people always make the same tacky comments about the same ornaments ("that angel looks like he's just..." or "I thought plastic snowflakes went out with the hula hoop") and the affair always ends with Christmas Carols around the piano and disparaging comments about anyone with the temerity to leave early. -- Rod Williams dual!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw