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A Same-Sex Valentine’s Day Card From The 1940s

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Friend of Queerty Brian C. Cummings shared this wonderful Valentine’s Day card, dating back to the 1940s. It’s an early example of comic-book merchandising, in which sapphic heroine Wonder Woman proclaims,  “FOR YOU, VALENTINE, I’D MOVE­­ – HEAVEN AND EARTH!”

But what truly makes this a queer valentine is the inscription, “To Franklin, from Robert Ager”

As Cummings wisely says, “history speaks more often than most may think.”

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