Taylor Swift has been vocal on many social issues troubling and in deep contentious debate during her career, and she has made the lengths on Friday to speak out about justice for the LGBT community.
In the Pride Live’s Stonewall Day live-streaming event, she spoke on the occasion which is a commemoration of 1969 Stonewall uprising, which has been symbolized as the onset for the gay rights civil disobedience movement.
She praised the U.S Supreme Court’s ruling last week that protects LGBTQ people from workplace discrimination, pushed for the passage of the Equality Act, and blasted the 2020 U.S. Census for excluding transgender and nonbinary people.
‘I wanted to say happy Pride Month.point 160 | The Stonewall Inn has been such a symbol of rebellion in the face of oppression and such a safe place for people,’ she began in her message.point 280 |
I want to say thank you to everybody who works there; everybody who has worked there; everybody who’s made it the place that it is.point 113 | ’ From there, Swift’s activist side shined through as she addressed issues true to her heart.point 203 |
In a nod of approval, the Lover star referenced the Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this month that the 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination, applies to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.point 213 | 1
‘We had a really good step forward recently with the Supreme Court ruling based on discrimination, based on sex, but we still have so far to go in terms of equality and protections for LGBTQ people and people in the trans community,’ she noted.point 319 |
Despite her approval, the Tennessee native took the push for equal rights a step farther by pointing out that the Equality Act [H.point 108 | R.point 110 | 5- 116th Congress] has still not been passed and emphasized that it ‘needs to happen.point 187 | ’point 194 | 1
Another issue of contention the singer targeted was the 2020 U.point 359 |
S.point 2 | Census: ‘I got my Census the other day and there were two choices for gender.point 71 | There was male and female and that erasure was so upsetting to me, the erasure of transgender and nonbinary people,’ she explained.point 187 | ‘When you don’t collect information on a group of people, that means that you have every excuse in the world not to support them.point 305 |
When you don’t collect data on a community, that’s a really, really brutal way of dismissing them.point 94 | ’point 101 | 1
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