06/05/2026
Pride Month! Here's a post from the National Women's History Museum
Proud to celebrate ! 🏳️🌈 All long we're honoring the LGBTQ+ women who broke barriers, shaped our shared culture, and worked tirelessly on behalf of their communities, including:
🏳️🌈 Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, often called the “Mother of the Blues” whose lyrics and melodies reflected her experiences as an independent, openly bisexual Black woman
🏳️🌈 Edie Windsor, an LGBTQ+ activist and a computer programmer who led and won a landmark case to fight for same-sex marriage equality in the U.S.
🏳️🌈 Jane Addams, a progressive social reformer and activist on the frontlines of the settlement house movement who later became the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
🏳️🌈 Audre Lorde, a poet and author who used her writing to shine light on her experience of the world as a Black le***an woman and later, as a mother and person suffering from cancer
🏳️🌈 Sara Josephine Baker, a physician and public health and hygiene crusader whose efforts to expand and improve preventative care transformed life for generations of mothers and children
🏳️🌈 Barbara Gittings, one of the earliest le***an activists in America who's known as the “Mother of the Gay Rights Movement” and publicly protested for gay rights before the Stonewall Uprising
🏳️🌈 Gloria Anzaldúa, a writer and educator who lived and worked primarily in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands and drew from her experiences as a Tejana, le***an, and woman of color
🏳️🌈 Sally Ride, the first American woman to go to space, and advocate for women in STEM and STEM education, and the the first acknowledged LGBTQ+ astronaut
🏳️🌈 Sharice Davids, one of the first two Native American women ever to serve in Congress and the first LGBTQ+ Native American elected to Congress
