In Canada, the US, and other countries in which extensive LGBTQ+ rights legislation, including employment protections, has been passed in recent decades, queer and trans people still endure persistent discrimination and exclusion in the workplace. There is now a massive body of scholarship on LGBTQ+ work across the fields like administrative and organization studies that documents this fact and predominantly argues, along with many mainstream LGBTQ+ organizations, that equity-oriented and education training for employers and employees will lead to the realization of the promise of legislative equality. Based on research into the employment experiences of LGBTQ+ people in two mid-sized Canadian cities, this talk argues against the predominant ‘queer liberalism’ of this dominant strain of LGBTQ+ work scholarship. Specifically, highlighting the ways in which the good jobs/ bad jobs dichotomy of neoliberal late capitalism connects to the contemporaneous LGBTQ+ age of equalities, it considers the ways in which individual freedoms and access within the workplace for some LGBTQ+ people rely upon the structural dispossession of others and amplifies calls for anti-capitalist responses to the queer and trans contradictions of neoliberal multiculturalism.