🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 This Pride Month, we recognize the connection between reproductive freedom and LGBTQIA+ liberation. We’re working to create a world where everybody can live with dignity, free to control their own bodies and lives—and we invite you to join us.

Before the floats and hashtags, before the rainbow capitalism and corporate allyship, there was resistance.

Pride started not as a celebration, but as an uprising—led by Black and brown trans women, drag queens, sex workers, and queer youth who were fed up with constant police violence and harassment.

To understand Pride Month’s true impact, we must center the Black and brown queer and trans people who led the charge.

The Roots of Pride

On June 28, 1969, patrons of the Stonewall Inn in New York City—many of them trans women of color—fought back against yet another brutal police raid.

That night sparked several days of protest, resistance, and collective defiance. It was not the first time queer people resisted oppression, but it became a flashpoint—a turning moment in the modern LGBTQIA+ liberation movement.

Among the trailblazers were Marsha P. Johnson, a Black trans woman and activist, and Sylvia Rivera, a Latina trans woman of Puerto Rican and Venezuelan descent.

Alongside other Black and brown trans women, drag queens, sex workers, and unhoused youth, they sparked days of resistance and rebellion.

The fight wasn’t led by celebrities, corporations, politicians, or influencers—but by marginalized people who demanded survival and dignity in a world that tried to erase them.

Pride is a Radical Act of Remembrance and Call to Action

Too often, the story of Pride gets whitewashed and sanitized—erasing the people who put their bodies on the line to demand dignity. Pride isn’t just a celebration. It’s a radical act of remembrance and a call to keep fighting.

Queer Liberation is Reproductive Freedom

From the first brick thrown, queer and trans people have always been at the forefront of the fight for justice.

This includes fighting for reproductive freedom—including health care access, HIV/AIDS care, birth control, gender-affirming care, the right to parent or not to parent on their own terms, and more.

Reproductive freedom and queer liberation are inextricably linked. They are intertwined, because our bodies, our choices, and our futures are deeply connected.

What We’re Fighting For Now

We’re fighting for a future where everyone has the freedom to make decisions about their own lives, bodies, and futures.

That includes:

• Access to abortion and birth control
• HIV and STI care
• Gender-affirming care
• The right to become a parent—or not—on your own terms
• Healthcare that is safe, inclusive, and rooted in dignity

As lawmakers try to strip away our rights—whether it’s abortion access, gender-affirming care, or basic healthcare—we remember the roots of Pride. We remember that resistance is in our blood.

We’re fighting for a world where everyone has the freedom to make decisions about their own lives, bodies, and futures.

That includes LGBTQIA+ people, immigrants, Black and brown communities, disabled folks, and everyone marginalized by systems of power.

Celebrate, Honor, Continue the Work

This Pride Month, we celebrate joy, love, and community—but we also honor the radical legacy of those who came before us.

We fight like they did: for liberation, for survival, and for a future where all of us are free.