Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2007
Abstract
The struggle of binational same-gender partners today parallels the struggles of Mildred and Richard Loving during the heyday of the Civil Rights Movement - not only in the obvious parallels between race and sexual orientation as barriers to freedom, but also in the way the law uses these immutable characteristics to limit the freedom of movement. It is this freedom of movement - this migration or immigration - that I want to focus on in this essay. Lest we forget, the Lovings' story is, importantly, a story of migration: It's a story of the great lengths to which an interracial couple would travel - physically, culturally, and legally - to win justice and equality.
Recommended Citation
Victor C. Romero, Crossing Borders: Loving v. Virginia as a Story of Migration, 51 Howard L.J. 53 (2007).
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Comments
This article was originally published at 51 Howard L.J. 53.