Why So Many of Us Love That Holiday Tree
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/why_so_many_of_us_love_that_holiday_tree.phpPatricia Nell Warren
December 3, 2008 12:00 PM
Yes, every year, we LGBT people have to figure out what to do with Christmas. We will strain our brains to imagine how we'll decorate the tree this year. For many of us, the Christmas tree is the big icon, but it's tied up with memories of family holidays that aren't always happy. Yet those memories move us towards healing by inspiring us to reinvent the Christmas tree for today. Some of us, hungry for continuity, go for the traditional look. Others go for that cutting-edge! In my 35-plus years of being out, I've seen LGBT trees decorated with everything from cranberries to condoms. That intense pride that we have in our homes -- after all, it wasn't so long ago that our couples didn't dare to do open homemaking -- is expressed in our holiday trees.
