A new era of Taylor Swift is upon us—and we're not just talking about her highly anticipated seventh album, which fans think will be titled Lover. The singer is also showing off a new publicly political side. Criticized by some for not speaking out enough during the 2016 election, Swift has more recently begun using her massive platform to let fans know where she stands on issues that are important to her.
The first signs of this new Swift emerged ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, when she endorsed the Democratic nominees from Tennessee for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. In her Instagram post containing the endorsement, she mentioned her strong belief in LGBTQ+ rights—and now she's taking that message a step further by posting a letter to Senator Lamar Alexander, a Republican representing her home state of Tennessee. The letter urges Alexander to support the Equality Act, which would "protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in their workplace, in their homes and in schools."
"🌈HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!🌈 While we have so much to celebrate, we also have a great distance to go before everyone in this country is truly treated equally. In excellent recent news, the House has passed the Equality Act, which would protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in their places of work, homes, schools, and other public accommodations," Swift wrote in an Instagram caption for the image of the letter. "The next step is that the bill will go before the Senate. 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."
In the letter Swift first thanked Alexander for cosponsoring a bill that celebrates the centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, before going on to criticize the "Slate of Hate" in Tennessee and warning that discriminatory practices could continue to scare off large companies like Amazon, who won't want to do business in the state. She also called discrimination against people based on "who they love" or "how they identify" as "un-American and cruel."
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