Thanksgiving Is A Good Holiday To Come Out As Gay or Lesbian [And Be Shown The Door]

Washington Post ^ | Ned Martel

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Essay: Thanksgiving Is A Good Holiday To Come Out As Gay or Lesbian

By Ned Martel November 21

Word to the wise: Thanksgiving is the proper holiday to tell your family that you’re a homosexual. It’s arguably secular, so you’re confronting tradition, not faith. Even though National Coming Out Day is in October, this is the day when gays and lesbians, newly announced or otherwise, are really driving it all home.

This no longer needs to be such a big deal, even if this month’s election somehow emboldens waves of guess-what conversations Thursday night. Awkwardness is predictable, but expect the unexpected. A few years ago, a friend of a friend told his sister that he was going to tell their parents his news at the Thanksgiving dinner table. Seated and fretful, he listened as she spoke up first. Before he even got his throat cleared, she came out ahead of him. Nobody said this was going to be easy.

America is decades past the Very Special Episode phase, when a prime-time discussion of gayness had public-service overtones. Back then, most televised gays were camouflaged as witty warlocks or fastidious professors.

[Lancey Howard]

LOL, what a great conversation to have around the Thanksgiving dinner table!
“Dad? I think you should know, I like to jam my penis into piles of feces.”

[dennisw]

I have some gay neighbors nearby, a few houses down. A gay couple. They are sociable and I see they had people over (Thanksgiving) cars parked in their driveway. I would be repulsed except that ..... this couple is lesbian and don't make any kind of deal about it. Two gay guys would a much different matter. I would be unable to speak to them, my actual lesbian neighbors...I can

[Lancey Howard]

A few years ago, a friend of a friend told his sister that he was going to tell their parents his news at the Thanksgiving dinner table. Seated and fretful, he listened as she spoke up first. Before he even got his throat cleared, she came out ahead of him.

???

This brother and sister BOTH admitted to their parents they were faggots?
At the same time, during Thanksgiving dinner??

LMAO! Those parents must have dropped dead from heart attacks. No grandchildren for them!

[trebb]

They’re trying to make Thanksgiving an official homosexual celebration. I saw a bunch of Black Friday commercials last night and homosexuality seemed to be the main theme of them all - had to turn the TV off.

[Albion Wilde]

...that childish, narcissistic attitude that you have to talk about your most personal functions in public or at the dinner table is just not mentally healthy, in fact, pardon the redundancy, it’s clinical narcissism.

Shortly after I got married, one of my good girlfriends from ten years dropped in for a visit and, within the first 15 minutes, mentioned her va-jay-jay (using the real latin word) to my new husband. That was the end of having her over.

[Morpheus2009]

What a shame.