Just Just What Interracial and Gay Partners Realize About ‘Passing’

Just Just What Interracial and Gay Partners Realize About ‘Passing’

The misery of masquerading

Mildred and Richard Loving, shown right here in 1965, were during the center of a landmark Supreme Court ruling on interracial wedding in 1967. (AP)

That I receive as a result of being heterosexual — freedoms and privileges that my husband and I might not have enjoyed even fifty years ago as I awaited news of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in the same-sex marriage cases last month, I began to reflect on all of the daily privileges. For the wedding is interracial. Leia mais