New York City’s Second Annual Queer Liberation March

This Sunday, LGBTQ+ people and their allies will take to the streets for the second annual Queer Liberation March in honor of the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and in opposition to the NYPD and all violence against LGBTQ+ people. This year’s march has been explicitly dedicated to Black LGBTQ+ people and demands that a minimum of a $1 billion be diverted from the NYPD to community services.

Has the Supreme Court Become Queer Friendly or Do They Just Know How to Read a Room?

LGBTQ+ people won an important victory yesterday. We won the most basic workplace protection: the right to not be discriminated on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation. What does this mean for queer folks, as well as for national politics?

President Trump Rolls Back Healthcare Discrimination Protections for Transgender People

On the fourth anniversary of the Pulse massacre and in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration announced it would roll back healthcare protections for transgender people. The new rule will allow healthcare and insurance providers to deny medical care and coverage to transgender people. 

Stonewall Was a Riot

Today is the first day of Pride Month, a celebration of the Stonewall Riot in 1969. Now uprisings are breaking out all over the country. Wealthy, white gay men today might be opposed to “violence,” but the history of the LGBTQ+ movement shows that riots of oppressed people are about liberation.

Rainbow Rising: A Call for Queer Anti-Capitalist Submissions During Pride

We invite you to submit articles to Left Voice during Pride Month and contribute to the conversation around the need for socialism and queer liberation. Email us at [email protected].

Whither Queer Liberation?

Fifty years after the Stonewall uprising, the LGBTQ+ movement faces lots of conservative pressures. What could a revolutionary alternative look like?

FEMA Funds Ultra Right, Anti-LGBTQ+ Group to Build Makeshift Hospital in Central Park

The coronavirus crisis is shining a light on the many failings of the American healthcare system. One of those failings is the institutionalized bigotry of the system.

Bad Medicine: Failings in Trans Healthcare

As companies broadcast hollow messages of support on Trans Remembrance Day, many working class LGBT+ people are unable to afford or access adequate healthcare due to high insurance rates and discriminatory medical practices. We need to fight for a truly universal healthcare system that prioritizes health and well-being over profit.

“I Got My Civil Rights”: The Supreme Court’s New Attacks on the LGBTQ+ Community Show the Limits of Liberal Reformism

As the Supreme Court considers rolling back protections against LGBTQ+ discrimination, working people must continue to demand and defend those rights on the streets and in their workplaces.