Taylor Swift to Receive GLAAD’s 2020 Vanguard Award

Taylor Swift to Receive GLAAD’s
2020 Vanguard Award.
GLAAD recently announced
their decision to honor
Taylor Swift with the Vanguard
Award for her LGBTQ allyship. .
Swift will receive the award at the 31st annual
GLAAD Media Awards on April 16, 2020. .
According to to GLAAD’s President and CEO,
Sarah Kate Ellis, Swift prominently uses her
platform to “promote LGBTQ acceptance.” .
Taylor Swift proudly uses her unique ability
to influence pop culture to promote LGBTQ
acceptance … In a time of political and
cultural division, Taylor creates music that
unites and calls on her massive fan following
to speak up and call for change, Sarah Kate Ellis, via statement .
GLAAD specifically
highlighted Swift’s
support of the Equality
Act in June 2019. .
At the time, Swift wrote a letter to
Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander,
encouraging him to support the bill.
She also created a petition, which received
over 500,000 signatures, in hopes of encouraging
her fans to show support for the bill too. .
Swift’s LGBTQ allyship is also apparent in her song
“You Need to Calm Down,” as it is an anti-hate anthem
that promotes LGBTQ equality and acceptance.