Texas Republicans have sought to ban transgender children from playing sports, criminalize essential gender-affirming healthcare, ban books featuring LGBTQ+ characters and storylines, and further limit the already flawed Texas educational curriculum on sex and gender identity. This past year LGBTQ+ Texans, especially trans youth, have been under attack. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, and channel their defiance into the present. Pride month is a time to look to the past-to draw pride and inspiration from revolutionary LGBTQ+ ancestors, like Marsha P. A landmark moment in the gay liberation movement, the Stonewall uprisings are commemorated each year in June during Pride Month. The LGBTQ+ patrons of Stonewall and other lesbian and gay bars in the area rioted for over six days when the police became violent. On June 28, 1969, the New York Police Department raided a Greenwich Village bar called the Stonewall Inn.
