Taylor Swift, Barack Obama, Kesha & More Set for Stonewall Day Livestream Benefit

No friendship is perfect. Katy Perry and Taylor Swift “fight like cousins,” even after they ended their years-long feud. The “Teenage Dream” singer was asked about her friendship with the Grammy winner on the Friday, July 10, episode Capital Breakfast With Roman Kemp, where cohost Sian Welby asked Perry about a theory that she and Swift are ninth cousins.

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Without a doubt, Taylor Swift, 30, has been an amazing LGBTQ advocate. The Lover singer appeared on Pride Live’s third annual Stonewall Day event on Friday, June 26, and blasted the U.S. Governments choice to not include an option for trans or non-binary people on current census forms. “I got my census the other day and there were two choices for gender. There was male and female. And that erasure was so upsetting to me, the erasure of transgender and non-binary people,” Taylor said.

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Taylor Swift, an increasingly vocal pop star and supporter of the LGBTQ community, appeared during the Friday (June 26) Stonewall Day livestream to commemorate the day and speak out against trans erasure.

At the Stonewall Day livestream benefit, former President Barack Obama gave a special address to the LGBTQ people of America to look back on the legacy of the Stonewall Riots, and to celebrate the progress that has been made since then.

"The Stonewall Inn has been such a symbol of rebellion in the face of oppression, and such a safe place for people," Taylor Swift said on Friday (June 26), addressing a virtual audience during Stonewall Day. The celeb-stacked Pride Live event honored the legacy of the six-day riots that took place at the New York gay bar in 1969, which launched the gay liberation movement — and today, Pride Month.

Pride Live isn't letting the COVID-19 pandemic cancel Stonewall Day.

Taylor Swift and Demi Lovato are among the stars coming out in support of the LGBTQ+ community for Pride Live’s Stonewall Day global live stream.The singers join an A-list line-up of musicians and entertainers, including Kesha, Cynthia Erivo, Katy Perry, Luke Evans, and Nico Tortorella, for the event, which will “raise critical funds for LGBTQ+ organizations severely affected by COVID-19 and the recent events highlighting the need for fair and equal treatment under the law for all”.The event

Barack Obama, Taylor Swift and Donatella Versace are among the A-list celebrities joining forces to celebrate Stonewall Day via a streaming event.On Friday June 25, celebrities are coming together to take part in Pride Live’s event to mark the anniversary of the historic Stonewall Riots of 1969 and on the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges for marriage equality.Obama is expected to deliver a message to the LGBTQ+ community during the livestream.

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Annie Lennox enlisted the help of Taylor Swift, Sting, Emeli Sandé, and more as she launched the Circle Music Auction Tuesday.

Annie Lennox, who founded the feminist NGO The Circle in 2008, launched The Circle Music Auction Tuesday (June 16) to raise funds for women around the world who are disproportionally impacted by coronavirus.

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