![]() ![]() By then, Becca was gone again, but I took pictures of what I’d be serving this time and sent them to her, because the spirit of Fish Party is such that you can absolutely be a part of it from a distance. Fish Party 1 was a hit, and I repeated it again a few weeks later. And I wanted to merge old friends with new ones, introducing Becca to one of the couples we’ve become close with down here in Miami. I wanted to do a casual cocktail hour with a bunch of dips and small plates all built around tinned fish around sunset. The first Fish Party was born of Becca’s first time visiting me in years. But Fish Parties are about more than what we consume! Fish Parties are friendship!!!! At its surface, Fish Party is just an intimate gathering of some of my friends at my place, featuring seafood (mainly tinned fish!), natural wine, local beers, and citrusy cocktails. I call them Fish Parties, originally dubbed by my friend Becca who, as a Pisces, is particularly qualified to dub such a thing. And as we’ve begun to socialize more, make new connections, and reunite with long-distance pals, a new ritual has organically emerged on the little balcony where my girlfriend and I spent so many months just the two of us. It turns out it’s difficult to make new friends when you can’t really socialize outside of your home.īut gradually we’ve finally been able to let folks into our home. ![]() When we picked Miami as our first place to really build a home together, we assumed we’d meet people through the arts, writing, and queer communities that exist here. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian CinemaĪs I’ve mentioned many times on the site by now, in the fall of 2021, I moved to a new city with my partner where I knew basically no one and where my partner knew less than a handful of people.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now. ![]()
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