Summer Of Loving-- Roy Zimmerman Was Also Inspired By Loving Vs Virginia

DWT regulars are unlikley to have missed one of our dozen or so mentions of Nanci Griffith's latest album, The Loving Kind and an explanation of the unanimous Supreme Court case that struck down all of the remaining laws that prohibited marriage between men and women of different races. Just before she died last year, Mildred Loving talked about how her plight was virtually the same as that of same-sex couples today.

California singer-songwriter Roy Zimmerman, formerly of the Foremen, sent us a video of himself and some friends, Laura Love, John McCutcheon, and Sandy O. of Emma's Revolution, performing his own song along the same lines, "Summer of Loving," at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley. In a note Roy pointed out the "obvious implications in the same-sex marriage debate currently raging in this cultural backwater we call California."