Meanwhile, a bevy of efforts are under way to roll back existing protections;
与此同时，一些人正努力撤销现有的保护措施。
dozens of bills are winding their way through state capitols to make it more difficult—if not impossible—for transgender students to play school sports or use restrooms corresponding to their gender identity.
Self-styled "religious liberty" laws that permit discrimination in the name of faith are chugging along with few checks in state legislatures that are dominated by Republicans.
And in June, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Philadelphia was on the wrong side of the law when it said that to receive city funding, a Catholic socialservice agency had to provide services to same-sex couples looking to adopt.
Against this backdrop, TIME spoke with two co-chairs of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus, Representatives Sharice Davids of Kansas and Mondaire Jones of New York,
as part of its 2021 virtual Pride Summit highlighting perspectives on identity, creativity and equality.
这是《时代》杂志2021年线上骄傲峰会的一部分，重点讨论了身份、创造力和平等的观点。
Both Democrats, they've made history: Davids in 2018 as the first openly LGBTQ Native American elected to Congress and Jones as one of two gay Black men elected to Congress in the 2020 elections.
"It's important that we are living authentically and visibly, giving inspiration to kids like (I was) when I was growing up wondering if there was a place for me in a world filled with so much injustice," Jones tells TIME.
"And of course you have to shoulder some of the important work that the LGBTQ movement has still yet to accomplish."
当然，我还必须承担一些LGBTQ运动尚未完成的重要工作。”
They may be firsts, but they're not ones to puff up their chests just because they will have places in future history books.
他们可能是第一人，但他们不会仅仅因为在未来的历史书中有一席之地就挺起胸膛。
"A lot of people know what it's like to be the only person like them in the room," Davids says.
“很多人都知道成为房间里唯一一个和自己一样的人是什么感觉，”大卫说。
And even with the strides being made to ensure Congress is more representative of America's changing demographics, there's still plenty more work to do. Of the 535 voting members of Congress, just 11 identify publicly as LGBTQ.
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