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“Every Christmas Eve my mom and I will watch The Christmas Carol.  I’ve been watching it since I was little, my mom watched it when she was young too.” -Sarah Barrett

“ Skating on the frozen lake at my cottage with all my family.” -Mac Radburn

“I get drunk with my family and sing Christmas carols.” -Ellyn Cook

“ I have a tourtiere every Christmas eve.” -Mac Christie

Maybe you’ve experienced that awkward moment when you return from winter break and ask someone, “How was your Christmas?” and they tell you they don’t celebrate it.

"This year I’m asking for a ‘Banana Phone.’ It’s a foam cover and it’s in the shape of a banana. I really want it. I hope I get it.” -Alanna Gray, first-year political science student (Blue Long Sleeve, Café)

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer: most of us have heard these words before, but when it comes to the GLBTQ community, things become more complicated than these five simple labels.

For example, the term bisexual assumes there are only two genders. However, Renée Yoxon, a fifth-year physics student at Carleton, said it comes down to more than just a binary between the two sexes. Instead, she said she likes to use the word “pansexual” because it doesn’t put limits on how people identify themselves.

1) Khnumhotep/Niankhkhnum – ancient Egypt, around 2400 BC