I would have something useful to say here, but have been drinking (I should be banned from drinking while cooking, because I wind up hammered by 5:30 pm and have to spend the rest of the dinner hour sobering up so I can be useful that evening-- this is not the sort of lifestyle I want to lead) and so am just going to post a link, in case you did not see it, to this awesome transcript of the testimony, in 1395, of a transvestite prostitute (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1395rykener.html).

In lieu of any kind of birthday wish or greeting. Since I totally feel your pain on the whole topic by now. I had forgotten we have the same astrological sign.

Rykener further said that he often had sex as a man with many nuns and also had sex as a man with many women both married and otherwise, how many [he] did not know. Rykener further confessed that many priests had committed that vice with him as with a woman, how many [he] did not know, and said that [he] accommodated priests more readily than other people because they wished to give [him] more than others.

(You can buy John Rykener Is My Homegirl (http://www.zazzle.com/john_rykener_is_my_homegirl_shirt-235619752825366248) t-shirts, though the graphic design leaves something to be desired.)

I don't know why I thought of you in particular when I read that (via history_time, except that homosexuality and medievalism don't get to collide that explicitly that often. ;)