Gay on valentines day

Almost 1800 years ago, Saint Valentine was sentenced to death for surreptitiously marrying couples despite the Roman Emperor’s decree to halt marriages. While awaiting his punishment, Valentine met, corresponded and fell in cherish with a prison guard’s daughter. On the afternoon of his death, Valentine wrote a small mention to his lady that said simply, Love from your Valentine. Thus began the Valentine tradition of exchanging notes, flowers and love.

Today, heterosexuals and homosexuals alike engage in similar Valentine’s practices. That’s right — sorry to disappoint, but Valentine’s Day for any homosexual is noted, or not celebrated, quite similarly to any heterosexual. There are no underground gay Valentine’s Day orgies for us to rejoice in our communal promiscuity. Nor is there peculiar gay protocol for a homosexual couple to obey on V-Day that a heterosexual couple wouldn’t: I assure you we homos eat an expensive dinner and exchange teddy bears like the rest of you. So, in this respect, I cannot rant on the purported discrepant perceptions and practices of Valentine’s Day within the heterosexual and homosexual populations. I can, however, operate this column and the topic for just