‘Tis the season for ugly Christmas sweaters and awkward family get togethers.
We all know what it feels like to be “that relative” at the dinner table, the one who everyone suspects is gay, but nobody wants to talk about it because, oh gosh, we wouldn’t want upset Grandma, even though Grandma’s known for years, and she couldn’t care less because, secretly, you were always her favorite.
OK, OK. So maybe we don’t all know what that feels like. Some of us have been luckier than others in the dysfunctional family department.
In case you need a little extra moral support to help get you through your family holiday, here are 25 tweets about being gay at Christmas…
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spending Christmas as a gay, leftist vegan amongst my carnivorous, no voting extended family is gonna be absolutely stunning hunny
— turbo normie (@zacy96) December 19, 2018
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Me @ my extended family when they come at me with the classic "So still no girlfriend?" at Christmas gatherings. #gay #biguy #LGBTQ pic.twitter.com/AzzdoSfosD
— Jolly Ol Jordan (actually not jolly i am unhappy) (@weavedaddy69) December 16, 2018
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when my cousin inevitably makes a gay joke at christmas it’s over for me
— mur ?? (@60savengers) December 17, 2018
4.
me at Christmas: I’m gay
my family: pic.twitter.com/TRgBFgv96i
— have a molly jolly christmas (@thedangheck) December 11, 2018
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Get in my mom’s car at the airport and the first words out of her mouth are “I’m listening to a podcast on gay dating.”
Ah, home for the holidays.
— Alex Clark (@AlexClark23) December 18, 2018
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Gays starting drama at the holiday party pic.twitter.com/cqF1CHNDie
— Jay (@Jay_Roque) December 20, 2018
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going to a holiday party at my c*worker’s place. Gonna be the only gay and only poc… wish me luck
— oon (@numbertrains) December 18, 2018
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me making eye contact with the only family member that knows im gay when someone asks why i still don’t have a boyfriend at christmas dinner pic.twitter.com/lIbdKpW7VZ
— renjun lovers intl (@loonahrj) December 17, 2018
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I'm having a big gay Christmas party partly to give my mom that feeling of family time at Christmas but also to make my homophobic father uncomfortable being in a room with ten screaming faggots
— ?A Literal Grinch? (@showponii) December 15, 2018
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Gays at christmas with family vs. new year's eve with friends pic.twitter.com/A7uTwtcvX8
— JAMES ??? ??? (@jamesxingleton) December 2, 2018
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Being the gay cousin at Christmas in a family of Christians is a tough job but someone’s got to do it ????
— keira (@winecoloredphil) December 10, 2018
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me at christmas dinner after my grandma has finished her speech on why the gays are all going to hell and why they shouldn’t be allowed rights or kids pic.twitter.com/qOtHL3JW9m
— bee (@yoongidimples) December 13, 2018
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Religious nut jobs 11 months a year: How do you expect us to explain gay & trans people to our children?
Religious nut jobs at Christmas:
“It’s a virgin birth.
No questions”— psjf ???????? (@PSJF) December 18, 2018
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These are your angry gay married cousins at your holiday family reunion. pic.twitter.com/m45ir9ZGvV
— tired horny catboys (@watsnewbussycat) December 14, 2018
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We're two gay dudes we don't do Christmas we don't have kids we don't have a family our Christmas is a Christmas Eve party a little Christmas dinner of sorts and that's it we don't buy gifts for people and we don't get gifts we have spent $0 Christmas 2018 and we feel fine…
— Tripp Martinez (@tripp_martinez) December 19, 2018
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Me to basically every other gay guy in a turtle neck and blue suit at my company holiday party pic.twitter.com/V1iZ0FTtUF
— SPENCER (@Spencaz) December 19, 2018
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my family is suddenly hosting christmas a few days early instead of christmas eve to better cater to personal schedules. now i only have four days to mentally prepare myself for my grandma's comments about my weight and my uncle's constant gay jokes @ me! love panicking.
— moose (@sangdoyu) December 16, 2018
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My aunt at Christmas dinner: “So do u have a gf already or are you like gay?”
Me the homo: pic.twitter.com/r2kXkJlPwA
— skinny legend (@iSkinnyLegendz) December 18, 2018
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I just heard a woman say "I'm so glad there's no gay people in my family imagine that at christmas" ?
— Becca ? (@Becca0804) December 19, 2018
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Gays showing up to their homophobic extended family's house for Christmas dinner pic.twitter.com/cLHMLXYQ4W
— Luke ? (@MrLukasBye) December 20, 2018
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can’t wait for my family to remind me i’m the gay disappointment child this year, really puts me in the christmas spirit
— anna (@annacantread) December 20, 2018
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My mother invited her gay friend to spend Christmas with us so now I won't be the only gay at Christmas. I honestly can't believe she would do that to me. pic.twitter.com/ckT2kkN8Ws
— homeless sexwell (@EndGaym3) December 19, 2018
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straight people talk about how they should get a Pride but that's literally just christmas… the go-to day for heteroaggressive family get-togethers in which they compete to make as many homophobic digs as the gay cousin can physically stomach
— hattie (@hattiesoykan) December 20, 2018
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Me sitting down at Christmas dinner with my two other brothers and we are all gay. (Yes you read that correct, my mom has three gay sons). pic.twitter.com/TwSy8HD4qi
— “That one gay nurse” (@BrianRArchuleta) December 13, 2018
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Photo of me, a gay son, ruining Christmas for my family pic.twitter.com/oNBJTcW9FF
— Carey O'Donnell (@ecareyo) December 11, 2018
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Aires the Ram
I used to dread, and hate Christmas. But since they all died on my Fathers side, and since my Moms side disowned my gay ass, and since both my parents have been dead for 8 years, I’ve loved Christmas!!
It really does ‘get better’. Really.
misterjack
In my twenties, I started boycotting my family holiday events for all the usual reasons –didn’t feel wanted, didn’t feel comfortable, etc. I started having my own parties. SO much more fun, and with way better food! There’s your family of blood and your family of CHOICE. Every now and then I will make an appearance at the relatives, but I am always chomping at the bit to leave and get back to my “real” celebration at home.
GayEGO
My lifetime partner of almost 57 years, married going on 15 years, have spent family Christmases since December 1962. I always decorate for the holidays so Happy Holidays to one and all!