Who Will Save Christmas From the Gay Grinches?

Published: December 5, 2007, 2:15 pm

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Photo: Getty ImagesFor the past 21 years, gays of all stripes have flocked to the annual Holi-gay "Toys for Tots" charity event, where they've drunk and flirted and the only price of admission was a Malibu Barbie or fire truck to be donated for poor city children. Last year, over 4,000 hairdressers, publicists, and lawyers packed into the Metropolitan Pavilion, breaking fire-code regulations. And so this year, the organizers decided to charge a $35 admission (plus a toy). The fee was introduced in order, the organizers said, to defray costs and stay under capacity, but a number of gay New Yorkers were disgruntled and boycotted the party, saying the "gay elite" was trying to price out less-affluent homosexuals.The hosts denied classism had anything to do with it. "Besides, people don't seem to have a problem paying $100 for the Black Party or Allegria," sniffed one of the hosts, Chris Kann, a broker for Corcoran, referring to the city's gay circuit parties. Happily for the masses,

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