The July issue of the Village Voice is on the streets!  

In the current issue of the Voice we cover Pride, listen to the latest in downtown sounds, check out creative work from young writers, look at America’s struggles with homegrown fascism, and unearth a potential acting career that just missed the mark. 

 

Leading off, Michael Musto calls out the lies that GOP liars tell about gays. Next, Frank Pizzoli asks leading activists how the overturning of Roe v. Wade dovetails with attacks on LGBTQ rights; Jordan Pike talks to Kate Barnhart, the godmother for at-risk queer youths; and Brendan Rascius reports on a gay Russian teacher who has escaped Putin’s oppression. 

Plus — Ward Sutton puts the K-(Don’t Ask Don’t)-Tel Records collection of MAGA Pride anthems on his turntable. 

For the cover story, Katherine Turman goes to Tompkins Square Park to hear Pinc Louds, a band that has busked its way into the hearts of New Yorkers above- and below-ground, while in other musical realms, Alan Scherstuhl listens to the latest “free improv, downtown skronk, hip hop power, ambient quietude, unmetered rhythms, between-note microtones” of NYC’s current jazz scene. 

Turning the page, Rebecca Wallace-Segall’s Writopia works with kids to foster a love of writing and storytelling, and Katherine Turman finds out from Jerry Stahl what it’s like to take a bus trip to a former Nazi concentration camp. Stahl’s tale is pretty awful—and awfully funny. 

Unfortunately, there’s not much to laugh about when it comes to America’s upcoming Semiquincentennial—the Fourth of July in 2026. R.C. Baker cracks open the history books to reveal that America’s current eruption of fascism is nothing new.

And finally, take a trip down memory lane as the Voice Lore section unearths a serious bump on the road to the American Dream.