; Whereas, on June 12, 2012, Kylar Broadus became the first openly transgender person to testify in a hearing before the United States Senate; 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 Senator; Whereas, on January 3, 2013, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona was sworn in as the first openly bisexual Member of Congress; Whereas, on March 7, 2013, the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 was reauthorized and included protections for transgender persons; Whereas, on April 29, 2013, National Basketball Association athlete Jason Collins became the first active male athlete in a North American major sports league to come out as gay; 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 Federal Government cannot discriminate against married same-sex couples when determining Federal rights, benefits, and obligations; Whereas, in November of 2013, Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia issued a policy designed to protect and guarantee equal treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender inmates, including allowing transgender individuals to be housed based on the gender they identify with instead of their biological sex; 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 9, 2014, Laverne Cox became the first openly transgender person on the cover of Time Magazine