; Whereas Barbara Jordan was a lawyer, civil rights leader, and the first African American elected to the House of Representatives from Texas; Whereas Simone Bell made history as the first out Black lesbian ever elected to serve in a State legislature; Whereas Stormé DeLarverie, born in 1920, was a drag king performer of the Jewel Box Revue and a community advocate; Whereas Lori Lightfoot made history in 2019, when she was elected the first openly LGBTQI+ person and first Black woman to serve as mayor of Chicago, the Nation’s third largest city; Whereas Karine Jean-Pierre made history in 2022, when she was selected the first openly LGBTQI+ person and first Black woman to serve as White House Press Secretary; Whereas Angela Davis has been a radical champion of civil rights and social justice as an author, professor, scholar, and activist for LGBTQI+ rights, gender equity, and anti-racism; Whereas Audre Lorde, an acclaimed poet, author, and essayist, gave countless readers the gift of her insights on race, class, and gender; Whereas Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a transgender activist and Stonewall Uprising veteran, has spoken out for justice for marginalized communities for decades; Whereas Frances Thompson, a former slave, made history as the first transgender woman to testify before a congressional committee in 1886; Whereas Pauli Murray, LGBTQI+ feminist, author, lawyer, and minister was the first Black woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest; Whereas Ron Oden made history in Palm Springs, California, as the first Black openly gay mayor of a United States city; Whereas Bayard Rustin was a civil rights activist who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington; Whereas Sean Saifa Wall, a Black intersex and transgender activist, speaks out against surgical and medical interventions on intersex infants and fights for intersex liberation entwined with Black liberation