Taylor Swift Rejects Trump's LGBTQ Pride Month Stance.

June 1, 2019, was the kick off of the LGBTQ Pride Month, Swift released an open letter to one of her senators, Tennessee’s Lamar Alexander, in support of the Equality Act and rejected President Donald Trump’s stance on the matter.

On Friday, Trump’s Twitter account shared the following statement: “As we celebrate LGBT Pride Month and recognize the outstanding contributions LGBT people have made to our great Nation, let us also stand in solidarity with the many LGBT people who live in dozens of countries worldwide that punish, imprison, or even execute individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation. My Administration has launched a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality and invite all nations to join us in this effort!”

In her bold letter to her Senator, she wrote:

“I personally reject the President’s stance that his administration, ‘supports equal treatment of all,’ but that the Equality Act, ‘in its current form is filled with poison pills that threaten to undermine parental and conscience rights.’ No. One cannot take the position that one supports a community, while condemning it in the next breath as going against ‘conscience’ or ‘parental rights,'” the 29-year-old wrote which was published on her social media channels. “That statement implies that there is something morally wrong with being anything other than heterosexual and cisgender, which is an incredibly harmful message to send to a nation full of healthy and loving families with same-sex, nonbinary or transgender parents, sons or daughters.”
“While we have so much to celebrate, we also have a great distance to go before everyone in this country is truly treated equally,” Swift wrote in an introduction addressed to fans that proceeded the letter.

“I’ve decided to kick off Pride Month by writing a letter to one of my senators to explain how strongly I feel that the Equality Act should be passed,” she added. “I urge you to write to your senators, too. I’ll be looking for your letters by searching the hashtag #lettertomysenator.”

Meanwhile, Trump's statement came with backlash, laughs, and eye rolls from many people in America, who saw it as a political move to gain votes, including GLAAD. The GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis released a statement about it:

“This is gaslighting, Actions speak louder than words and President Trump and his Administration have attacked the LGBTQ community in policy and rhetoric more than 110 times since taking office. When discussing this tweet, we need to remember the full story around his anti-LGBTQ record.”