After the July ruling of the delhi high court, same-sex love too is expected to bloom this Sunday.
It’s almost here, the day that plunges many singles and unattached people into gloom. How much worse for the homosexual, whose love has so far found no place in that one day dedicated to love. Not any more, though.
Preparations for Valentine’s Day are on in full swing, and for many same-sex couples, it is an occasion for celebration too. With the Delhi high court having decriminalised consensual sex between adult homosexuals in July last year, gay and lesbian couples too can now be out there, celebrating.
Naresh, a researcher, says, “We will go out. Maybe do lunch or dinner together. We may hit the party scene, just for the fun of it. It’s not going to be a major Valentine’s Day celebration or anything.” Naresh has been living with his partner for over five years now, so their love has now settled to the quiet rhythms of a happy domesticity, with no need for special celebrations. “But Valentine’s Day is too much in one’s face to be avoided,” he says.
There are other gay couples, though, still enjoying the first flush of romance. Koko says he is “busy like crazy” ahead of Valentine’s, and setting himself and his partner up for a “whole day of mushiness”. Koko has been in a relationship with his partner for half a year, and the two plan to move in together soon.
“We were supposed to move in last week, but I was busy,” says Koko. There is a great deal of shopping to be done as part of setting up home together, and Koko says they will do some entertaining too. “We will have friends over, and arrange a house warming party,” says Koko. “No, no cards and all that,” says Koko.
They have expenses to bear for the house, so they are stinting. Besides, he has not heard of cards specially designed for couples like him and his partner.
“I’ll cook a continental meal for him,” says Shane, Koko’s partner. “He loves to eat and so there will be cheesecake and spaghetti,”he adds.
Abhishek, an event manager, expects that with the new-found legal status of homosexual couples, there will probably be a larger number of them out partying on Valentine’s Day. “But then again, who can tell? Maybe they will just want to stay away and do the quiet couple thing, and not come out to party,” says Abhishek.
“It is a clichéd thing, a bit tacky,” says Manish, who has been living with his partner for seven years, “Valentine’s is no big thing.”
Akkai, of Sangama, a group that works to erase discrimination against sexuality minorities, says she too has plans for February 14. “I know what I will get my partner. I’m going to be nicely engaged,” she says.
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