This Pride Month, LCV is proud to stand in solidarity with the LGBTQIA+ community — including our staff and members — by honoring this community's tireless and ongoing work in the fight for justice and equality.

It's important to remember that the fight for a just, healthy, and prosperous future affects us all. When powerful interests and people — from corporate polluters to politicians that tolerate (and even promote) discrimination — are united in greed and oppression, we must be equally and broadly united in pursuit of justice.

We're proud to fight for climate action in order to reduce the environmental and health hazards that threaten us all, but especially marginalized people. Both here in the United States and abroad, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, especially trans individuals, are at higher risk of exposure to climate-related shocks and pollution, due to high rates of social and housing discrimination.

LCV also proudly stands with LGBTQIA+ advocacy organizations to protect national monuments that capture their fight for equal treatment and justice. Notably, our country's national monuments include New York City's Stonewall Inn, site of the 1969 uprising by members of the LGBTQ+ community in resistance to police brutality, a turning point that was commemorated one year later with the first Pride march.

Finally, LCV proudly works with leading LGBTQIA+ advocacy organizations to promote the health of our democracy and combat voter disenfranchisement. Several states advancing strict and unconstitutional voter suppression laws include those with disproportionately large LGBTQIA+ communities. In the fights for environmental, racial justice, and justice for LGBTQIA+ individuals to live openly and authentically, LCV recognizes that there can be no progress without a strong democracy in which everyone is able and welcome to participate.

At LCV, we are dedicated to a just and equitable environmental movement, and the interconnected issues that impact the health and safety of all communities. There is no climate justice without social justice, racial justice, and a democracy where everyone can participate fully without fear.

Sincerely,
LCV Membership Team