As Pride Month kicks off, a new marker is going up, honoring two landmark events in Louisville's LGBTQ history.

The Fairness Campaign unveiled the city's first LGBTQ Kentucky Historical highway marker last week.

They say it's one way to preserve history that's often erased or never acknowledged.

So this has been nearly a decade in the works to plunk this piece of metal down to Mark Louisville's first LGBTQ historic site.

The marker celebrates and commemorates the founding of the Louisville Gay Liberation Front in 1970.

At 420, Belgravia.

Corp., when Traci Knight and Margie Jones applied for a marriage license right here in Louisville on July six of 1970, they knew better than to use their real names, their real addresses, their actual places of work.

They knew very well they were challenging the closet and the brutal harassment and condemnation that kept so many queer people in the closet.

When 13 lesbians and two gay men gathered right over there at 420 Belgravia, three days later to establish the Louisville Gay Liberation Front, what we were calling the LG LEP, in part to support Knight and Jones's legal challenge.

They, too, acted with great courage.

Jones and Knight took their case to trial.

They didn't win marriage rights at that time.

In 1970, but they lit the way for them and for the wider queer liberation that was to come and for the wider liberation that was to come.

And they became an important first.

The first lesbian marriage trial in U.S. history.

We're extremely happy that the Kentucky Historical Marker Group has decided to identify this as the first LGBTQ marker.

It just gives us recognition and the hope that Kentucky can move forward in a welcoming environment for the future and that it recognizes a foundation from 50 years ago.

So thank you all.

It's great to see so many here.

The Louisville Gay Liberation Front was the first LGBTQ group to advocate for equality in the state.

The organization set up Louisville's first LGBTQ hotline and shelter.