President Biden signed an executive order on Friday memorializing the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, where 49 people were killed in a mass shooting in 2016.

The nightclub will join both the AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco and New York’s Stonewall Inn, marking the third National monument commemorating LGBTQ rights and landmark moments in the fight for equality, Reuters reports. The bill was signed into law one day before the sixth anniversary of Gay Marriage being legalized in the United States.

"We'll never fully recover, but we'll remember," Biden said as he signed the legislation.

The Pulse shooting occurred when a 29-year-old gunman, Omar Mateen, stormed into the bar with an AR-15 and a pistol and opened fire in what was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history at the time. The incident was labeled as both a hate crime and an act of Islamic extremism.

Since taking office, Biden has been vocal about reversing some of his predecessor’s anti-LGBT agenda. He reversed President Trump’s Transgender Military Ban and has also pressed Congress to pass the Equality Act, trying to protect LGBTQ citizens from discrimination and ordering Federal Agencies to protect members of the community under anti-discrimination laws.

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