Taylor Swift continues to use her voice for more than just her hugely successful career as a singer and narrative songwriter. During her taped segment, 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. Using her voice: Taylor Swift showed of her political activist side when she took part in Pride Live's Stonewall Day livestream event, an annual commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall uprising that helped spark the modern day gay rights movement. Despite her approval, the Tennessee native took the push for equal rights a step farther by pointing out that the Equality Act [H.R. There was male and female and that erasure was so upsetting to me, the erasure of transgender and nonbinary people,' she explained.

Source: Daily Mail June 27, 2020 06:31 UTC