Taylor Swift to be honoured with the 2020 GLAAD Vanguard Award

On April 16th, Taylor Swift will be presented with the Vanguard Award for LGBTQ+ allies at the 2020 GLAAD media awards. Swift broke her long political silence prior to midterm elections last year to support the U.S. Democratic Party, and her political voice is only getting louder. Her music video 'You Need To Calm Down' features all of the Queer Eye cast, and contains the lyric "why be mad when you could be GLAAD?"

Swift broke her long political silence prior to midterm elections last year to support the U.S. Democratic Party, and her political voice is only getting louder.  In 2019, Swift penned an open letter to Tennessee senator Lamar Alexander, urging him to support the Equality Act and "prohibit...harsh and unfair discrimination." Swift details in the letter that she rejects "the President's stance that his administration 'supports the 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.' That statement implies that there is something morally wrong with being anything other than heterosexual and cisgender."

Previous award winners include Beyoncé and JAY-Z, and this year Swift will be honoured alongside Pose writer/director Janet Mock.