If your definition of leftism doesn’t include queer acceptance, then I’m not interested in your version of leftism.

Any version of bringing the people together to make the world better for the people cannot discriminate based on sexuality. Doing so is to create a multi-tiered citizenship and awarding privilege based on perceived merit, which is right-wing ideology.

Queer groups have been an oppressed group for most of history, which has decidedly placed them into oppressed economic classes, and the culture they developed is a result of that. To dismiss queer acceptance as “culture war,” is to position sexual identity as choice, and to ignore their history of oppression and erasure.

“Leftism” that segregates citizens by sexual orientation, or other identities and backgrounds for that matter, is fascism by another name.