Bayard Rustin and Alicia Garza weer both named in the resolution. (Getty)
House Democrats have vowed to “uplift” the contributions of queer Black people, recognising them as “fearless trailblazers in American culture and society”.
House Resolution 170 was introduced by congresswoman Barbara Lee, a vice-chair and founding member of the Equality Caucus, and co-sponsored by 29 other congress members.
It specifically names 26 Black LGBT+ people deserving of celebration, including civil rights activists Bayard Rustin, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Marsha P Johnson and Black Lives Matter co-founders Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza.
Other notable figures are Stormé DeLarverie, a Stonewall veteran and drag performer known as “the Rosa Parks of the gay community”, Carter Brown, founder and National Director of Black TransMen Inc., Phill Wilson, HIV activist and founder of the Black AIDS Institute, alongside the many “whose names we will never know”.