IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 550 
Encouraging the celebration of the month of June as LGBTQIA+ Pride 
Month. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 26, 2025 
Mr. GREEN of Texas (for himself, Mr. AMO, Ms. ANSARI, Ms. BALINT, Ms. 
BARRAGA´N, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. BELL, Mr. BERA, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. 
BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Ms. BROWN, Ms. BROWNLEY, Ms. BUDZINSKI, 
Ms. BYNUM, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. CARSON, Mr. CARTER of Louisiana, Mr. 
CASE, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mr. CASTRO of Texas, Mrs. CHERFILUS- 
MCCORMICK, Ms. CHU, Mr. CISNEROS, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mrs. 
RADEWAGEN, Mr. COSTA, Ms. CROCKETT, Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas, Mr. 
DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. DELAURO, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. DELUZIO, Mr. 
DESAULNIER, Ms. DEXTER, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. DOGGETT, Ms. 
ESCOBAR, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. EVANS of Pennsylvania, Mrs. FLETCHER, 
Mr. FOSTER, Mrs. FOUSHEE, Mr. FROST, Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr. GARCI´A 
of Illinois, Ms. GARCIA of Texas, Mr. GARCIA of California, Mr. GOMEZ, 
Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. HOYER, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. IVEY, Ms. JAYAPAL, 
Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, 
Mr. KHANNA, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. LANDSMAN, Mr. LARSEN of 
Washington, Mr. LATIMER, Ms. LEE of Pennsylvania, Ms. LEE of Ne-
vada, Mr. LIEU, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. MAGAZINER, Ms. MATSUI, Ms. 
MCBRIDE, Mrs. MCCLAIN DELANEY, Ms. MCCLELLAN, Ms. MCCOLLUM, 
Mr. MCGARVEY, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mrs. MCIVER, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. 
MFUME, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. MOSKOWITZ, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. 
MULLIN, Mr. NADLER, Mr. NEGUSE, Ms. NORTON, Mr. OLSZEWSKI, Ms. 
OMAR, Mr. PALLONE, Ms. PELOSI, Mr. PETERS, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. 
POCAN, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Mr. RUIZ, Ms. SALINAS, Ms. 
SA´NCHEZ, Ms. SCANLON, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. SCHOLTEN, Mr. DAVID 
SCOTT
of Georgia, Ms. SIMON, Mr. SMITH
of Washington, Mr. 
SORENSEN, Mr. SOTO, Ms. STANSBURY, Mr. STANTON, Ms. STRICKLAND, 
Mr. SWALWELL, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. THANEDAR, Mr. THOMPSON of Cali-
fornia, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. TITUS, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. 
TOKUDA, Mr. TORRES of New York, Mrs. TORRES of California, Mr. 
TRAN, Mr. VARGAS, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. WIL-
LIAMS of Georgia, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. TONKO, Ms. DEGETTE, 
Mr. GOLDMAN of New York, and Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ) submitted the fol-
lowing resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
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RESOLUTION 
Encouraging the celebration of the month of June as 
LGBTQIA+ Pride Month. 
Whereas this resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Original 
LGBTQIA+ Pride Month Resolution of 2025’’; 
Whereas the Honorable Barney Frank, Member of Congress 
from 1981 to 2013, is recognized as an honorary cospon-
sor of this resolution; 
Whereas Members of this Congress support the rights, free-
doms, and equality of those who are lesbian, gay, bisex-
ual, 
transgender, 
queer, 
intersex, 
and 
asexual 
(LGBTQIA+); 
Whereas, in August of 1966, the ‘‘Screaming Queens’’ of the 
Gene Compton’s Cafeteria Uprising in the Tenderloin 
District of San Francisco led one of the first recorded 
transgender uprisings that erupted in response to police 
harassment, and continued to protest against police bru-
tality and improper policing of the LGBTQIA+ commu-
nity; 
Whereas those who took a stand for human rights and dig-
nity at the Stonewall Inn Uprising in New York City on 
June 28, 1969, were led by two brave and visible 
transgender women of color, Marsha P. Johnson and Syl-
via Rivera; 
Whereas the LGBTQIA+ protesters at the Stonewall Inn 
Uprising and Gene Compton’s Cafeteria Uprising were 
subject to police harassment and invidious discrimination 
based on sexual orientation and gender identity; 
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Whereas, within years of these decisive moments in history, 
LGBTQIA+ rights organizations were created in every 
major city of the United States; 
Whereas Brenda Howard, often called ‘‘The Mother of 
Pride,’’ helped to plan a Gay Pride Week and the Chris-
topher Street Liberation Day Parade in June of 1970 to 
commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Inn 
Uprising; 
Whereas Brenda Howard’s Gay Pride Week and Christopher 
Street Liberation Day Parade evolved into the annual 
New York City Pride March and Pride celebrations are 
now known around the world; 
Whereas the Stonewall Inn Uprising and the Gene Compton’s 
Cafeteria Uprising have been followed by many historic 
milestones for the LGBTQIA+ community; 
Whereas, in December of 1973, the board of the American 
Psychiatric Association voted to remove homosexuality 
from the list of mental illnesses of the American Psy-
chiatric Association; 
Whereas, in 1974, Elaine Noble became the first openly 
LGBTQIA+ candidate elected to a State legislature in 
the United States when she won a seat in the Massachu-
setts House of Representatives; 
Whereas, in 1975, the Civil Service Commission eliminated 
the ban on the employment of gay people in most Federal 
jobs; 
Whereas, on January 8, 1978, Harvey Milk made national 
news when he was sworn in as an openly gay member of 
the San Francisco Board of Supervisors; 
Whereas, on June 25, 1978, gay artist Gilbert Baker debuted 
a rainbow flag at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day, 
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and the flag was officially established as a symbol for 
LGBTQ pride in 1994; 
Whereas, in October of 1979, 75,000 people participated in 
the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay 
Rights to demand equal civil rights for LGBTQIA+ peo-
ple; 
Whereas, in 1982, Wisconsin became the first State to ban 
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation; 
Whereas, in 1983, after initial refusal from lead organizers 
to allow an openly LGBTQIA+ person to speak, Audre 
Lorde was selected by Black LGBTQIA+ groups to 
speak at the 20th-anniversary commemoration of Dr. 
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s March on Washington in 
1963; 
Whereas, in 1987, Representative Barney Frank of Massa-
chusetts became the first United States Representative to 
voluntarily come out as an openly gay Member of Con-
gress; 
Whereas Urvashi Vaid cofounded the Creating Change Con-
ference in 1988, the largest annual LGBTQIA+ con-
ference convening in the United States; 
Whereas, in 1991, Monica Helms designed the transgender 
flag and introduced it at the 2000 Phoenix Pride parade 
to represent the rights and diversity of transgender peo-
ple; 
Whereas, on April 25, 1993, more than a million people took 
part in the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and 
Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, one of the largest pro-
tests in United States history; 
Whereas, on October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay stu-
dent at the University of Wyoming, was beaten, tortured, 
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and left to die, drawing attention to sexual-orientation re-
lated hate crimes and ultimately to the passage of the 
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes 
Prevention Act in 2009; 
Whereas, on November 28, 1998, Rita Hester, a Black 
transgender woman, was brutally murdered in her home, 
sparking the advent of Transgender Day of Remem-
brance, which is observed every year on November 20th 
to remember those who have been killed due to 
transphobia; 
Whereas, in 2002, David Cicilline was elected mayor of Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, and became the first openly gay 
mayor of a State capital; 
Whereas, on June 26, 2003, the Supreme Court of the 
United States held in Lawrence v. Texas that under the 
14th Amendment, States could not criminalize the pri-
vate, intimate relationships of same-sex couples; 
Whereas, in 2008, a Latino transgender man, Diego Miguel 
Sanchez, became the first openly transgender person ap-
pointed to the Platform Committee of the Democratic 
National Committee; 
Whereas, on November 4, 2008, Stu Rasmussen of Silverton, 
Oregon, became the first openly transgender person to be 
elected mayor in the United States; 
Whereas, on October 28, 2009, the Matthew Shepard and 
James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act was 
passed by Congress and signed into law by President 
Barack Obama, expanding existing Federal hate crimes 
laws to include crimes motivated by the actual or per-
ceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or dis-
ability of a victim; 
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Whereas, on November 17, 2010, Phyllis Frye was appointed 
to the City of Houston Municipal Courts as the first 
openly transgender judge appointed in the United States; 
Whereas Congress passed and President Barack Obama 
signed the repeal of Defense Directive 1304.26 (‘‘Don’t 
Ask, Don’t Tell’’) in December of 2010, allowing gay, les-
bian, and bisexual persons to serve openly in the United 
States Armed Forces; 
Whereas, in October of 2011, the Girl Scouts of America 
opened membership to a 7-year-old transgender girl; 
Whereas, in December of 2011, Lane Lewis became the first 
gay man elected County Chair of the Democratic Party 
of Harris County, the third largest county in the United 
States; 
Whereas, on April 20, 2012, the Equal Employment Oppor-
tunity Commission ruled that discrimination on the basis 
of gender identity is ‘‘sex discrimination’’ for purposes of 
title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; 
Whereas, on November 6, 2012, Representative Mark Takano 
of California, a Japanese American, became the first 
openly gay person of color elected to Congress; 
Whereas, in 2013, the first LGBTQ Pride Month resolution 
was introduced by Representative Al Green of Texas; 
Whereas, on January 3, 2013, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin 
was sworn in as the first openly gay United States Sen-
ator; 
Whereas, on January 3, 2013, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona 
was sworn in as the first openly bisexual Member of Con-
gress; 
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Whereas, on March 7, 2013, the Violence Against Women 
Act of 1994 was reauthorized and included protections 
for transgender persons; 
Whereas, on June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court held in 
United States v. Windsor that section 3 of the Defense 
of Marriage Act was unconstitutional and that the Fed-
eral Government cannot discriminate against married 
same-sex couples when determining Federal rights, bene-
fits, and obligations; 
Whereas, on November 20, 2013, President Barack Obama 
posthumously awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom 
to civil rights pioneer Bayard Rustin, an openly gay 
Black man who organized the March on Washington in 
1963 and presented the crucial 10 demands of the March 
on Washington in the summer of 1963; 
Whereas, on June 17, 2014, Darrin P. Gayles was the first 
openly gay Black man to be confirmed as a Federal 
judge; 
Whereas, on July 21, 2014, President Barack Obama took 
action to protect LGBTQIA+ workers by signing an Ex-
ecutive order prohibiting Federal contractors from dis-
criminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender 
identity; 
Whereas, on June 8, 2015, Olympic triathlete Chris Mosier 
became the first transgender athlete to earn a spot on 
Team USA; 
Whereas, on June 9, 2015, the equal opportunity policy of 
the United States Armed Forces was updated to protect 
servicemembers from harassment and discrimination on 
the basis of sexual orientation; 
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Whereas, on June 23, 2015, Stonewall Inn in New York City 
received a landmark designation by the Landmarks Pres-
ervation Commission of New York City so that the Stone-
wall Inn cannot be torn down or developed without ap-
proval; 
Whereas, on June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court in Obergefell 
v. Hodges held in a 5–4 ruling that the 14th Amendment 
requires all States to license marriages between same-sex 
couples and to recognize all marriages that were lawfully 
performed in a different State; 
Whereas, on July 17, 2015, the Equal Employment Oppor-
tunity Commission ruled that discrimination on the basis 
of sexual orientation is ‘‘sex discrimination’’ for purposes 
of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; 
Whereas, since the 114th Congress, the Equality Act has 
been introduced every Congress, first by Representative 
David Cicilline and most recently by Representative Mark 
Takano, to amend the Nation’s Federal civil rights laws 
to explicitly include sexual orientation, gender identity, 
and sex characteristics among the prohibited categories 
of discrimination in employment, housing, credit, edu-
cation, public accommodation, federally funded programs, 
and jury service; it passed the House of Representatives 
with bipartisan support in both the 116th and 117th 
Congresses; 
Whereas the American Civil Liberties Union is currently 
tracking 575 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills that have been intro-
duced in State legislatures across the United States thus 
far in 2025; 
Whereas, in February of 2016, the Greater Houston LGBT 
Chamber of Commerce launched, becoming one of the 
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leading economic voices in the greater Houston region fo-
cusing on economic empowerment and inclusion for 
LGBTQIA+ entrepreneurs and professionals; 
Whereas, on May 13, 2016, the Department of Justice and 
the Department of Education jointly released guidance to 
provide educators the information they need to ensure 
that transgender students attend school in an environ-
ment free from discrimination on the basis of sex; 
Whereas, on May 18, 2016, Eric Fanning was sworn in as 
Secretary of the Army, the first time a branch of the 
United States Armed Forces was led by an openly gay 
person; 
Whereas members of the LGBTQIA+ community are dis-
proportionately affected by violence, including fatal vio-
lence with guns, intimate partner violence, and hate 
crimes; 
Whereas, on June 12, 2016, one of the deadliest mass shoot-
ings in the modern history of the United States occurred 
at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida, on Latin 
night, leaving 49 people dead and another 53 people 
wounded; 
Whereas, between 2013 and 2024, nearly 70 percent of 
known fatal violent activities toward transgender and 
gender-nonconforming people have involved a gun; 
Whereas, more than 42 percent of transgender adults report 
having attempted suicide in their lifetime; 
Whereas, according to a 2020 systematic review, transgender 
people are 1.7 times more likely to experience some form 
of intimate partner violence compared to cisgender peo-
ple, and 2.5 times more likely to experience sexual inti-
mate partner violence; 
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Whereas LGBTQIA+ people are 5 times more likely than 
non-LGBTQIA+ people to be victims of violent hate 
crimes; 
Whereas LGBTQIA+ youth experience dating violence at 
rates significantly higher than their non-LGBTQIA+ 
peers; 
Whereas, on June 30, 2016, the Department of Defense an-
nounced 
an 
immediate 
policy 
change 
allowing 
transgender servicemembers to serve openly without fear 
of retribution or penalty; 
Whereas, on July 28, 2016, Sarah McBride, national press 
secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, spoke at the 
Democratic National Convention, making her the first 
transgender person to address a major party convention; 
Whereas, on November 8, 2016, Kate Brown of Oregon be-
came the first openly bisexual person to win a guber-
natorial election; 
Whereas, on January 30, 2017, the Boy Scouts of America 
announced that they would open membership to 
transgender boys; 
Whereas, on June 27, 2017, residents of the District of Co-
lumbia became the first in the United States to be al-
lowed to select a gender-neutral option on their driver’s 
license; 
Whereas, on November 7, 2017, the election of Andrea Jen-
kins to the Minneapolis City Council made her the first 
openly transgender woman to be elected to public office 
in a major United States city; 
Whereas, on November 7, 2017, Phillipe Cunningham’s elec-
tion to the Minneapolis City Council made him the first 
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openly transgender man to be elected to the city council 
of a major United States city; 
Whereas, on November 7, 2017, Danica Roem of Virginia be-
came the first openly transgender person to be elected to 
and seated in a State legislature; 
Whereas, on November 6, 2018, Democratic Representative 
Jared Polis was elected Governor of Colorado, becoming 
the first openly gay man to be elected Governor in the 
United States; 
Whereas, in April of 2019, Morehouse College announced 
that the historically all-male school would begin admit-
ting transgender men in 2020; 
Whereas, on May 20, 2019, Lori Lightfoot was sworn in as 
mayor of Chicago, becoming the first Black lesbian 
mayor; 
Whereas, on May 24, 2019, Taiwan became the first nation 
in Asia to legally recognize same-sex marriage; 
Whereas, on June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court held that 
title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits 
discrimination on the basis of sex, also applies to sexual 
orientation and gender identity, and President Joe Biden 
took steps to enforce all sex nondiscrimination laws to 
prohibit anti-LGBTQIA+ discrimination; 
Whereas, in November of 2020, Representatives Ritchie 
Torres and Mondaire Jones, both Members of Congress 
representing New York districts, became the first openly 
gay Black persons elected to Congress; 
Whereas, on March 24, 2021, Admiral Rachel Levine became 
the first openly transgender person to hold an office re-
quiring confirmation by the Senate, and on October 19, 
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2021, became the first openly transgender four-star offi-
cer in the uniformed services; 
Whereas, on May 16, 2022, Karine Jean-Pierre became the 
first openly lesbian African American White House Press 
Secretary; 
Whereas, on January 2, 2023, Zooey Zephyr became the first 
openly trans woman to serve in the Montana State legis-
lature and was later barred from the Montana House 
floor after her comments rebuking proposed legislation 
that would ban gender-affirming care for children; 
Whereas, on October 1, 2023, Laphonza Butler was ap-
pointed to the United States Senate, becoming the first 
openly lesbian Black Senator; 
Whereas, on February 8, 2024, Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old 
Indigenous TNB+ (transgender and nonbinary) student 
in Oklahoma, died following a physical altercation in 
school that resulted in hospitalization; 
Whereas, on January 3, 2025, Sarah McBride became the 
first openly transgender Member of Congress, making her 
the highest ranking openly transgender public official in 
United States history; and 
Whereas the inclusion and acceptance of LGBTQIA+ per-
sons in the United States continues to expand, with an 
understanding that United States citizens will remain 
steadfast in pursuing the goal of complete equality and 
respect for all, regardless of whom they love or who they 
are: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes that lesbian, gay, bisexual, 
transgender, 
queer, 
intersex, 
and 
asexual 
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(LGBTQIA+) rights are human rights and are pro-
tected by the Constitution; 
(2) recognizes that all United States citizens 
should be treated fairly and equally regardless of 
sexual orientation, sex characteristics, or gender 
identity and that LGBTQIA+ history plays an inte-
gral role in the history of the United States; 
(3) acknowledges the struggle of the Stonewall 
Inn and Gene Compton’s Cafeteria protesters and 
countless other lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, 
queer, intersex, and asexual people for equality; 
(4) encourages the celebration of LGBTQIA+ 
Pride Month to provide a continuing opportunity for 
all people in the United States to learn about the 
discrimination and inequality that lesbian, gay, bi-
sexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual 
people have faced, and continue to face, in tandem 
with triumphs over tragedy and victories in spite of 
barriers; and 
(5) agrees that the United States must continue 
to strive to ensure that the promise of equality is re-
alized for all people of the United States. 
Æ 
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