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Friday, February 1, 2008

Free Reader Valentines! Now 100 Percent More Gay

posted by on February 1 at 10:51 AM

Our annual free reader valentines are greatly improved this year—your message will appear on a full-color art card on its own pretty, printable page online. Last night we added a few more card options, including this one by Mark Kaufman:
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Get your free Stranger mash note in—we’re gonna hit the 2,000 print ceiling soon (the rest will go on the website).

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1

wow...now interracial same sex relationship cards...you DO have something for everybody

Posted by Jiberish | February 1, 2008 11:15 AM
2

that isn't gay, that is classist gay stereotyping.

Posted by Bellevue Ave | February 1, 2008 11:16 AM
3

We'll whip up a dancing gay bums version ASAP.

Posted by Dan Savage | February 1, 2008 11:17 AM
4

weird. that's a spot on cartoon likeness of me and my man. how did y'all do that

Posted by reverend dr dj riz | February 1, 2008 11:22 AM
5

Romance is dead.

Posted by Mr. Poe | February 1, 2008 11:25 AM
6

No. 4 looks hauntingly like goatse...

Posted by laterite | February 1, 2008 11:36 AM
7

Why are the gay guys in the comic illustration blind?

Is homosexuality the love that dare not see thy sin?

Posted by michael strangeways | February 1, 2008 11:45 AM
8

Where are the poly cards?

(not for me, for my friends)

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 1, 2008 11:49 AM
9

Use #3, whiner.

Posted by Greg | February 1, 2008 11:56 AM
10

If [you] enter one after the 2,000 limit will the auto-response tell you that [you] won't make it into the print edition?

Posted by Carollani | February 1, 2008 11:57 AM
11

Will the path from web form to print valentine accommodate Japanese characters?

たとえば…君の愛はアイスクリームより良い。

Posted by lostboy | February 1, 2008 11:59 AM
12

really though, isnt the "gay businessman and his tattooed slacker husband he supports" a little play out?

Posted by Bellevue Ave | February 1, 2008 12:02 PM
13

What if we want to use this background instead of the one we submitted yesterday? Can we change it?

Posted by TheMisanthrope | February 1, 2008 12:02 PM
14

You can send me an e-mail with the first few words of the Valentine you submitted and I can try to change the art choice.

Lostboy, Japanese characters appear to work.

Posted by Amy Kate Horn | February 1, 2008 12:32 PM
15

@11: That's a great sample.

Posted by Greg | February 1, 2008 1:55 PM
16

Greg, thanks.  Inspiration credit goes to the song Ice Cream.

Posted by lostboy | February 1, 2008 2:04 PM
17

@8: Design #3 looks pretty poly to me.

Posted by Wolf | February 2, 2008 8:36 AM

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