Taylor Swift is celebrating the start of Pride Month in a powerful way.
The 33-year-old “You Need To Calm Down” pop super star kicked off Pride Month by making a statement onstage.
On Friday (June 2) at her Chicago, Illinois Eras Tour stop, Taylor delivered a powerful speech about the LGBTQ+ community. She passionately stressed how important it is to support its members not just now but also outside of the month of June.
While seated at her piano, Taylor said:
“I’m looking out tonight, I’m seeing so many incredible individuals who are living authentically and beautifully, and this is a safe space.
This is a celebratory space for you. One of the things that makes me feel so prideful is getting to be with you and watching you interact with each other, being so loving and so thoughtful and so caring.
Being with you during Pride Month, getting to sing the words to ‘You Need To Calm Down’ where there are lyrics like, ‘Can you just not step on his gown?’ or, ‘Shade never made anybody less gay,’ and you guys are screaming those lyrics. Such solidarity. Such support of one another and such encouraging, beautiful acceptance and peace and safety. And I wish that every place was safe and beautiful for people of the LGBTQ+ community.”
She went on to say:
“We can’t talk about Pride without talking about pain. Right now and recently there have been so many harmful pieces of legislation that have put people in the LGBTQ+ and queer community at risk It’s painful for everyone. Every ally. Every loved one. Every person in these communities. And that’s why I’m always posting, ‘This is when the midterms are. This is when these important key primaries are.’”
Taylor declared that it is very important to ask questions about our politicians, like, “Are they actually advocates? Are they allies? Are they protectors of equality? Do I want to vote for them?’”
