J U V V V W U V Of warm love, hot hate, & cold cereal A Valentine's card. To both of you from one of me: Last year, Valentine's Day came on a Sunday. I was glad that it did, I joked to my friends, because that meant nobody else got any mail that day either. I say this not as an attempt for pity - OK, not exclusively as an attempt for pity - but rather to re- mind you of the feeling that you, as two people in love, might not re- member too well. But you've felt it before, both of you, if you've felt 'at all. It's that vague resentment, that unique brand of hatred born out of love, or out of the need for it. It's the feeling that, as the Joe Jackson song puts it, "Happy couples ain't no friends of mine." Anyone who's walked home alone from a party be- hind a pair of lovers performing ex- ploratory surgery on one another with their tongues, hoping that your third grade teacher will walk up, ruler in hand, and make them stop because they haven't brought enough for everybody - or, better yet, that they'll just get hit by a truck - has felt it. Anyone who's sat at a table for one and watched someone else cradle a warm hand instead of a cold bottle of ketchup has lived it. Any- one who's spent Valentine's Day without - well, without a "Valentine" - knows.it like the in- side of their empty mailbox. Is it wrong? Probably. Is it hate? You damn betcha. And like any other brand of hate, from Nazism to moralism, it's one of the strongest bonds around. It joins us, regardless of sex, in a s/he wo/man Hater's Club the Little Rascals could only have dreamed about. And even if we suspend our membership for a while - maybe for the rest of our lives, if we're lucky - we all have the card somewhere in our wallets. Even you two. It makes us watch Dudley Do- Right cartoons and root for Snidely Whiplash, together in our loneli- ness, knowing that sour grapes is the best meal to share. I suppose you're wondering if I'm writing this just to vent some spleen at you. After all, you're in love, and Valentine's Day is just four days away. You're winning. But this card isn't a show of re- sentment. I wish it were. I wish I could see you walking down the street, hand in hand, oblivious to the rest of the world, and sigh, and roll my eyes, and shoot you a look of disgust, quickly, and maybe mutter, "Jesus," to myself, and keep walk- EON JIM NI 7ilK ing. But I can't, because chances are good I won't see you walking down the street hand in hand at all, for reasons you know all too well. And if I do, I can't react like I normally might when I see a couple in love. Instead I stare at you just a frac- tion of a second longer than I would otherwise, first out of surprise, then out of guilt. Because I'm wondering if I'm looking too long, or looking away too quickly, and all the while hoping to God that you don't catch a glimpse of me puzzling this whole thing over. Because I hope you don't think I'm looking you with the same hatred so many people do - one entirely different than the one I just described. Because you're not something I see every day. Then I look away and I wish you luck instead of ill, because enough people wish you ill already. People who don't normally hold anger to- wards a boyfriend and girlfriend, a wife and husband, a woman and her man. Because you're none of these. Because you're both the same sex. They don't even have to hide it. They can snicker about you to your face just as well asbehind your backs; they can use the word "faggot" just as easily as their grandparents used the word "nigger," receive just as much approval for it, and with just as little culpability. Most of the rest of us will stand by just as silently as our grandparents. And they don't have to stop there. They can beat the hell out you when you walk out of the bar together, knowing full well that the police officer that comes (if anyone calls) is just as likely to hate you just as much, and to be just a l-i-i-ittle bit too slow to catch the offenders, just a 1-i-i-ittle bit fuzzy on the details when conducting the investigation. Knowing full well that the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name is now the Love That Dare Not File A Police Report. Why do they do this? Why not? Enough people are racists, even though most people feel (or say) racism is evil, an embarrassment. But homophobia? Homophobia is a redeeming quality! It's a feature of any man worth his weight in Bud Light and L.A. Gear models. Homophobia is funny! It's the comic thrust behind any number of movies and Three's Company episodes. .Hell, homophobia sells! Turn on the TV sometime. You'll see a commercial for Kellogg's Nut 'N' Honey Crunch, with a pack of rough-and-ready cowboys - read men - and a grizzled old cook, that goes something like this: COWBOYS: What's for break- fast? COOK: Nut 'N' Honey. Whereupon the cook finds him- self staring down the righteous gun barrels of a pack of offended cow- boys. Get it? Nothin', honey. Get it? Something tells me they wouldn't be that angry to find out nothin's for breakfast. Of course, it's around this time of year that it becomes most pro- nounced. This Tuesday we celebrate love - or at least its profitable ex- pressions - but it's telling to see what kinds of love we don't cele- brate. Go to a Hallmark shop. 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