ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, Va. — Secretaries of the military branches presided over a ceremony this morning to dedicate a statue of interracial gay troops kissing where a confederate statue once stood, sources confirm.

A large crowd wearing rainbow attire cheered as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, and Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro unveiled the bronze figures of a white male officer wrapped in the arms of a Black male soldier, their lips locked in fiery passion.

The base of the new statue previously held a confederate memorial that was removed last year as part of the Pentagon’s “No More Glorification For Traitors” cemetery improvement project.