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Love knows no bounds at Queer Cupid Party

Cait Callahan / Assignments Editor

Issue date: 2/15/08 Section: Page One
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University groups LLEGO and BiGLARU threw a Valentine's Day party last night in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center.
Media Credit: Dan Bracaglia / Photography Editor
University groups LLEGO and BiGLARU threw a Valentine's Day party last night in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center.
Valentine's Day. It's the one day of the year set aside for people in couples everywhere to show each other how much they care. But not everyone feels like they get the same chance to express their love for each other on the romantic holiday. This Valentine's Day, one group of people did something to change that.

LLEGO, an organization for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, held a Valentine's Day party last night, along with BiGLARU, the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Rutgers University, another LGBT group on campus. Organizers planned the event, called the Queer Cupid Party, to show the University that the LGBT community could celebrate the holiday too. The party took place in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

"Valentine's Day is usually a hetero-normative holiday, and we wanted to [have] the party on Valentine's Day just to show that it's not just heterosexuals who celebrate Valentine's Day," said LLEGO President Ana Maria Rexach, a Rutgers College junior. "Love can be expressed in different ways with different people, no matter your gender or your sex. So we just wanted to say that we too can celebrate Valentine's Day, and we too can have programs on Valentine's Day because there's rarely any programs for the LGBT community, especially holiday programs like [on] Valentine's Day."

Group members said the party serves the dual role of providing an opportunity for LLEGO members to get together and have some fun on Valentine's Day as well as making a statement to the University for the LGBT community.

"It's not like some protest against hetero-normativity," said LLEGO officer Ian Campbell, a School of Arts and Sciences student. "It's just going to be a venue for a typically overlooked group to celebrate a holiday that's generally associated with heterosexuals."

LLEGO members expressed excitement over party plans, which included music by DJ Cypher, Valentine's Day decorations, dance contests, games, prizes and even a Britney Spears impression contest. Members of the LLEGO e-board dressed up in cupid costumes, and to top off the evening, there was chocolate fondue with strawberries and bananas for dipping as well as cookies, brownies and chocolate Hershey's Kisses.
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