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The Hidden History of Valentine's Day
Newswise — Pets, spouses, co-workers, friends, classmates: They’re all in line to be on the receiving end of another log year for Valentine’s Diurnal spending, says a modern survey by the National Retail Federation.
But as Americans strive to return to the good old days of romance, one UNLV history professor says they never actually existed.
“People devotion the idea that there were these wonderful eras before our own moment when people celebrated Valentine’s Day in the most authentic way,” says Elizabeth Nelson, a 19th-century pop culture expert, who began researching Valentine’s Day three decades ago and literally wrote the book on marketing the holiday. “But there was always this long and complicated history about Valentine’s Day and people actually thought that it was too commercial and insincere from the very beginning.”
We sat down with Nelson to receive a handle on the history behind the holiday and the ways advertising, consumerism, and social media have changed the way we celebrate.
Who is St. Valentine and why does he have a holiday?
Popular lore says that in 5th century A.D., t
Valentine’s Day Media Resource Kit
BACKGROUND
Valentine's Day receives a superb deal of media attention. Print and electronic squeeze outlets nationwide share stories of couples proclaiming their love and commitment for one another. However, female homosexual, gay, bisexual and genderqueer (LGBT) couples are often excluded from Valentine's Morning media coverage—and LGBT couples of color receive even less attention in both mainstream and people of color media. GLAAD hopes that the following resources will help you create Valentine's Day stories that reflect the true diversity of our society by including LGBT couples in the coverage of this romantic holiday.
LANGUAGE
LGBT people and relationships are often excluded by the kinds of language media professionals opt to use. Consider the language used to characterize couples in general: Does it assume that all couples are heterosexual? Does it allow for non-traditional families? Does it subtly endorse opposite-sex relationships while marginalizing same-sex commitments? GLAAD encourages media to apply words and descriptions that can be universally applied to all couples – gay and straight – and that respect the si
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Obituary
Candice Gay Valentine
November 5, 1951-November 27, 2024
Candy passed away peacefully at home on November 27, 2024. She is preceded in death by parents David and Doris Kohn, brother Robert Burke, and grandson Cameron Shaw. She is survived by loving husband of 44 years Mark Valentine, sons Che’ Shaw, Greg Valentine, Jeff (Kelley) Valentine, daughter Ashley (Bill) Wilson, grandchildren Haylee Shaw, Ayla, Mia, and Bella Valentine, Liam and Landon Wilson, sisters Connie Jackson, Jean (Robert) Grant, Terri Kohn, sisters-in-law Janet (John) Pander, Lynn Miller, goddaughters Rebekah (Steven) Colletti and Rachael (Joey) Nunn and many other cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends.
In lieu of flowers contributions can be made to the Cameron Shaw Scholarship Fund c/o Bethel Lutheran Church 4501Hoover Rd, Grove City, OH 43123.
Visitation will be held Monday, December 2, 2024, 5-7 and funeral service Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 10am at Bethel Lutheran Church 4501 Hoover Rd. Grove Metropolis, Ohio 43123, with Rev. Peter I. Ray officiating. Luncheon to follow. Arrangements are completed with The Spence-Miller Funeral Home. Online guestbook at www.spencem
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 devote with a prison guard’s daughter. On the morning of his death, Valentine wrote a small remark 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 famous, 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 go after 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, apply this column and the topic for just
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