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Pride month usually focuses our attention on the right love who we love. That struggle historically does not only belong to the LG community. 

Miscegenation was illegal in all but 9 states at some point in our history. This country may not be able to agree on pandemic mask wearing, but it sure was unified on miscegenation, or, mixed marriages. No Catholics and non-Catholics in some states, no Whites with Asians or Filipinos and of course, no Whites with Negroes, Mulattoes, Quadroons, Octoroons, etc.--if you're wondering what or who all those words mean, I'll get to the 1 drop rule soon.

At any rate, the Lovings--yes, that was the last name of Richard and Mildred (néeJeter), were a couple who dared to love and marry, a marriage that was null and void in the state of Virginia.

It's fitting that we celebrate the Lovings and their fight for the right to love who they chose this month, when so many are celebrating that same right, even as some state constitution language still says otherwise. Read more about Loving Day on Lovingday.org.

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