Taylor Swift shared a special message Friday night to mark the beginning of Pride Month.
During a break in her Eras Tour concert in Chicago, the pop superstar 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 for you. This is a celebratory space for you.”
Swift said she feels “prideful” to watch fans interact with each other while “being so loving and so thoughtful and so caring.”
She referred to her 2019 hit “You Need to Calm Down,” which includes lyrics like: “Control your urges to scream about all the people you hate / 'Cause shade never made anybody less gay.”
Swift noted: “You guys are screaming those lyrics in such solidarity, in such support of one another and in such encouraging, beautiful acceptance and peace and safety and I wish that every place was safe and beautiful for people of the LGBTQ+ community. I really wish that.”
The singer mentioned “harmful pieces of legislation” across the U.S. targeting LGBTQ+ people that cause pain for “every ally, every loved one, every person in these communities” and urged her fans to make educated voting decisions.
“We can support as much as we want during Pride Month, but if we’re not doing our research on these elected officials… are they advocates? Are they allies? Are they protectors of equality?”
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