🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month, Texas. Pride is in June for a reason. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York, the same kind of raid that had humiliated and arrested LGBTQ people for decades. Simply being gay was a crime in most of the country back then. But this time the people inside refused to scatter, and they held their ground for nights. One year later they marched, and that first march became what we now call Pride. Strip away the politics and that fight was about one simple idea: what consenting adults do in their own lives is none of the government's business. That happens to be an idea Libertarians have championed from the very beginning. We were making the case for marriage equality back when it was politically radioactive, while both major parties stayed opposed for years; as recently as the 2008 election, the major-party presidential tickets still wouldn't back it. And we hold that standard consistently: the same logic that protects your church, your guns, and your business also protects your right to live and love as you choose. Freedom isn't freedom if it only applies to the people the government happens to approve of. We don't believe your rights come from a government, a politician, or a permission slip. They're yours. All of them. So this month we celebrate the people who stood up to a government that wouldn't leave them alone, and we keep standing for the same principle today. Live free, Texas. 🤠