Pop star Taylor Swift spoke out to raise awareness on LGBTQ rights in advance of this year’s Pride Month, sharing a letter that she wrote…
Pop star Taylor Swift spoke out to raise awareness on LGBTQ rights in advance of this year’s Pride Month, sharing a letter that she wrote to her senator on the topic, People reports.
Swift had written the letter to Senator Lamar Alexander urging him to support the Equality Act, which would prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The Equality Act has passed the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives but has yet to come to a vote in the Republican-controlled Senate. Senator Alexander, who is a Republican, represents Swift’s home state of Tennessee.
In sharing the letter, Swift also took the opportunity to call on her fans to step up themselves and write letters of their own.
“While we have so much to celebrate, we also have a great distance to go before everyone in this country is truly treated equally,” she said to fans.
