We typically try to keep the Valentine’s Day mush to a mushy minimum, but a viral video of two South African schoolboys celebrating the holiday as their classmates cheer on has melted our hearts right out of our chests. We should probably see a doctor about that.
But not before we watch this clip 30 more times.
In it, a boy waits in the schoolyard to surprise his Valentine with all the classics that we might usually scoff at: Flowers? Check. Frilly gift bag? Check. Balloons? You’d better believe that’s a check.
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Then his crush enters the scene, smile on his face, and embraces the other boy. And the crowd. Goes. Wild.
Twitter user Brendon Gumede shared the clip, along with the caption: “This is so beautiful.”
Brendon, when you’re right, you’re right:
this is so beautiful. ????? totally made my day. pic.twitter.com/d9FrFvrAoG
— Brendon Gumede (@BrendonGumede) February 14, 2018
The comments are predictably saturated with hateful nonsense, but that didn’t stop many from praising the scene.
“So brave n beautiful. Young love very beautiful,” one person wrote, while another said: “Love wins.”
Another put it into context: “This just made my day, what a time to be alive indeed. High School is one of the most awkward phases for gay people. Good to see there is a generation that is going to grow up without dealing with such awkward environments.”
We may not fully be there yet, but hope is alive in South Africa.
Kangol
Adorable! I love how their classmates are cheering them on too.
Bob LaBlah
I don’t. In MY day we gave Valentine’s Day cards to everyone and that was it. A balloon hug and possible kiss afterwards between these boys is promoting smut and you know it.
Kangol
Bob, it’s 2018, not 1968. Seriously. Can you not see the innocence in these kids’ affection for each other, and their classmates’ support? It’s a beautiful video. Please try not to read “smut” into it, because that’s on you, and not these young LGBTQ people. Sheesh!
Bob LaBlah
@Kangol……..I assume that remark was made at my way of thinking and not my age. I’m sure you meant SOMETHING by that but I, ol’ Bob LaBlah, don’t quite know what.
Kangol
@Bob, pre-Stonewall Uprising, Gay Liberation, LGBTQ fight for equality and freedom.
Pre-1969. That’s what I meant. No dig at your age.
Bob LaBlah
@Kangol………a likely story. Pre-1969 huh? PRE-1969, as in one year shy of fifty? Beware of the old queens scepter. For now I’ll spare you. lol
Juanjo
Bob – the only smut here is in your mind. When I was in grade school back in the late 1950’s and early 1960s, we brought Valentine cards for everyone in the class. In high school, we did not do that at all. But kids who liked someone did give valentine cards to their sweeties. My nephews and nieces did the same in their day and my great nephews and nieces continue the habit to this day. I fail to see anything smutty about two gay kids exchanging a smooch and gifts, any more than I would see anything smutty about a heterosexual couple doing the same.
eddiesocket
Bob, not only are you clearly very old, but you’re also a disgusting pile of filth. Go far far away from decent people.
He BGB
Before I even got here I thought I bet it’s not in the United States and I was right.
whatsaywhat
Indeed. In the United States they’d all be mowed down by semi-automatic weapons.
Kieran
That is beautiful.
Bob LaBlah
No it wasn’t.
leobaga
Aww. So beautiful. Someday this will be all common around the world. Great supportive classmates!
Bob LaBlah
I hope your wrong about your predictions. These are kids and this sends the wrong message.
Bob LaBlah
These are kids whom I question if they even have pubic hair. I can NOT condone putting this on a gay website and sometimes wonder where are or if there even exists a thing called standards. This is TOO young.
whatsaywhat
Too young for what?
Bringing a balloon and card to your crush on Valentine’s day?
whatsaywhat
And YTF are you thinking about their pubic hair, pervert? Get your mind out of the gutter.
Danny595
You’re the product of promiscuous gay subculture, Bob. It limits your thinking and diminishes your view of gay people. You see 2 gay boys, and you think “Oh, they are gay. Being gay is about sexual intercourse. They are too young for that!”
You cannot conceive that gay people exist independently of sex acts, that we develop emotionally first and that – just as with hetero youth – sexual intercourse can be introduced later in life, as an expression of love in the context of a relationship. These boys are celebrating V-Day, the same way that straight kids do. That’s beautiful.
Bob LaBlah
I stand with my assessment and you know just as well as I do there are sexual overtones between these two BOYS. Smut. Smut. SMUT is all this is.
Juanjo
Bob- I think you need to have a mental health assessment. These boys look to be high school age adolescents. And nothing they did is inappropriate for a kid that age. Jesus on a Cracker! I do not know where or when you went to school but in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s when I was in high school, boys were kissing girls in public just like these boys kissed each other and no one raised an eyebrow.
Bob LaBlah
@ol’ Juanjo…………………JoJo, you were in HS before me but I wasn’t too far behind. Our values are our values (you sound Calif/west coast born and bred) and my midwestern values will not allow me to condone that nor this sickening event that happened recently in this article. Things have moved forward but I think they went too fast and TOO far. Is it really necessary to create artificial people doing things that nature simply did not intend for them to be doing? I ask you where WILL it stop? And by the way, I was not onboard (shall we say) with gay marriage either. Being gay and being able to commit to someone without the processes and institutions of strait people is what gave us our identity, or at least that is what I was led to believe until the last ten years or so. And this is also why I do not understand why transgender people are included with us. I want no more part of them than they do me.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/transgender-woman-breastfeeds-baby-documented-case-article-1.3823601
eddiesocket
Something is broken inside of you. Get professional help. You’re not OK.
Danny595
That was great. South Africa is the best country in Africa to be gay. It had gay marriage long before the US, the UK or France.
I hope these boys will be OK. I note that there is only 1 guy in the background. Everyone else who is cheering is a girl. I wonder if the other guys in that school are cool with them.
Bob LaBlah
France recently came to its senses when it made arab women stop walking around with their faces covered and I am sure somewhere the French would draw a line that can’t be crossed as to how young is too young to promote homosexuality amongst BOYS. The Brits should consider the same thing.
Hussain-TheCanadian
@ Bob
Love you need to relax a bit, you’re kind of reading way too much into this (Hussain passes a joint to Bob).
Bob LaBlah
(Cough, cough, gag-cough) Thanks for the hit…er, I mean hint but I still stand with my assessment. These are kids and that does not belong on an adult site. Surely those kids in school who heard about it but weren’t there to see it are going to do a google search and lord knows where this vid has been posted and the places it will lead them that they don’t need to know about at this time in their lives.
ShowMeGuy
Bob, Bob, Bob…….Bless your heart.
jckfmsincty
She seems as lost and lazy as her unfaithful husband.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Now that was GENUINELY heartwarming for once
Ummmm Yeah
The gay blogs love to post videos that are going to get muslims and Africans arrested or killed because the videos get world wide attention don’t they?
tjr101
That was beautiful to see, I’m sure many of the haters are conservatives here in the US trying to export their bigotry.