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I gather this homosexual avoidance is not openly canvassed in your family, and that is really the problem here, because it allows prejudiced family members to save face year after year, and also ruins it for this couple when the Holidays are hosted by older family members who deliberately exclude the couple in question.
If your generation does not take the lead in pointedly laying bare the older generation's motives, instead of letting them get away with ridiculous excuses, you are enabling them in a way.
Don't get me wrong, I totally understand why you wouldn't want to open Pandora's box, but... it's still enabling.

These people probably feel all noble about their sacrifice of not coming to the family gathering, so you could puncture that with a little well-placed sardonic humor. "Oh really Dad, you can't drive at night? You don't know the way? Oh well, I guess your intolerance for homosexuality comes before seeing your grandchildren on a major Holiday. Your loss."

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