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Still, it can be hard to find something that isn't drenched in straight culture, so here's where your resident non-binary lesbian shopping writer comes in with my 12 best Valentine's Day gay. This is the no-greeting card, all-you-need, must-have Valentine’s Day list of gifts for your special gay guy. Valentine’s Day is a day you want to tell him you love him in a special way and greeting cards, candy, and flowers are so “traditional.”.

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We've also included an in-depth guide to picking the perfect gay Valentine presents for your boyfriend, husband, and more. The Ides of February February 15th was sacred to the Romans, it marked a fertility festival. Lupercalia was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman God of Agriculture, and the twins Romulus and Remus, the mythological founders of Rome. There they would sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification.

Then they would skin the goat and cut its hide into strips to dip into sacrificial blood. The priests would then walk through the streets of the city, gently slapping women and crop fields with the sacred strips. The women accepted these slaps because they believed it would make them fertile in the coming year. As the day progressed, the young women of the city would gather and place their names in a large urn.

Then the unmarried men of the city would draw a name from the urn. For the next year, these two were paired together. Some of these pairings would lead to marriage. There were at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, according to the Catholic Church. All three were martyred. One such Valentine was said to have served in Rome around the third century. Emperor Claudius II felt that single men made much better soldiers than men who had wives and kids.

As such, he continued to marry single men and women in secret.

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Claudius found out about this treachery and put Valentine to death. Another story suggests that Valentine was a priest who helped Christians escape Roman dungeons, where they endured beatings and torture. For this, he was put to death. Another suggests that the true namesake of the holiday was Saint Valentine of Terni, who was also beheaded by Claudius.

In a variation of these stories, while waiting for his death sentence, Valentine fell in love with a young girl. This girl visited with Valentine before his death and spoke with him often. No one knows the truth of these legends.

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The one unifying fact behind them is that Valentine was sympathetic, heroic, and a romantic figure. Thanks to his reputation and legends, he would become the most popular saint by the Middle Ages. While most stories say that St. Lupercalia had survived the beginning of Christianity, by the 5th century, it was deemed un-Christian and outlawed. It was Pope Gelasius who finally declared February 14th as St.

In England and France, during the Middle Ages, it was believed that birds began their mating season on, or around, February 14th. This added to the idea that the holiday revolved around romance. Most of us are familiar with the naked and winged baby who flies around shooting arrows of love to unsuspecting people. But what if I told you this is not the actual progenitor of love. Eros was a handsome God with a penchant for shooting golden arrows at people to incite love and lead arrows to cause discord.