The winter holidays are upon us guys. Even without adding COVID-19 to the mix, this season is already difficult enough to navigate for some due to many reasons:
- you lost someone and you’re grieving;
- you broke up with your boyfriend/partner;
- extra costs that will be incurred because of Christmas food, drinks, gifts, and outfits;
- LGBTQ+ people who have been kicked out of their homes and are alone and have no family or friends to celebrate it with;
- LGBTQ+ people who have to go home to their family wherein some members don’t accept them because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Celebrations this year, however, is particularly challenging—more so than usual because of the loneliness and social isolation brought about by COVID-19. Because of this, CDC has recently released a winter holiday and celebration safety guidance to help us celebrate and connect with our families while keeping everyone’s safety in mind. Take a look at some of their suggestions below:
- Holiday travel is not advised as travel increases our chances of spreading and acquiring COVID-19;
- Celebrate winter holidays with your household members only;
- Skip parties and social gatherings with others outside of your household;
- Have a Christmas and New Year dinner with the members of your household only;
- If you are living alone, you can send your care packages and gifts to your friends and loved ones and open them together through a video call;
- Alternatively, you can host a virtual celebration and eat a meal together with your friends and family virtually;
- Help, volunteer your services in virtual ways, or donate to shelters that serve LGBTQ+ homeless people in the US. Please check this link for the list of LGBT organizations by state.
- Read the CDC’s guidance for winter holidays in full here.
Having said all that, what’s your plan for winter holidays this year, guys? Did you already decorate your house for Christmas? Share with us your thoughts and stories in the comments section below!
Lots of face-timing or zooming, taking no chances.
After reading all-the-cumulative-trials, tribulations and realities…
enumerated within the blog…
about the The Celebration of Christmas…
I have decided to extricate myself…from this planet…because there is no hope or salvation…
A jar of applesauce, first…
then…
60 capsules of either Nembutal or Seconal…
washed-down…
with a champange flute… filled with Dom Perignon!
Christmas time is a state of mind. A continuation of thankfulness shared for Thanksgiving into Joy for unto the world a King is born. A wonderful counselor friend who sticks closer than a brother. Home is full of cheer and tunes of Christmas. Pine needles and Christmas bows add color and warmth. Just me alone with seven parakeets that fill the day with so much drama it’s easy to be happy and grateful. As another year comes to an end I am reminded that He loves me and He came that I might have life and life more abundantly. Joy… Read more »
I question why is everybody so scared. The news media makes it seem like for your going to die if you get it. Actually if you do get it you have a 99.5 percent that you will get over it just fine. Personally I have had sexual contact with others, and see others outside of my family, etc. Actually my family doesn’t even have a lot to do with me anyway. I have been out and about, gone to a outside concert last labor day, with several hundred people attending, Been to casinos, eating out, been at a couple adult… Read more »