Singer Taylor Swift called out the White House during her acceptance speech at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards for not acknowledging her petition for the Equality Act to protect LGBTQ rights.
"In this video, several points were made," she said on Monday. "So you voting for this video means that you want a world where we're all treated equally, regardless of who we love, regardless of how we identify."
Swift noted that the Change.org petition “now has half a million signatures, which is five times the amount that it would need to warrant a response from the White House.”
On the petition’s webpage, it notes that although the House passed the Equality Act, the Senate has yet to vote.
“Politicians need votes to stay in office,” the petition reads. “Votes come from the people. Pressure from massive amounts of people is a major way to push politicians towards positive change. That’s why I’ve created this petition to urge the Senate to support the Equality Act.”
Although she has previously stayed quiet regarding political issues, Swift explained in an interview with Vogue in September that “in the 2016 election you had a political opponent who was weaponizing the idea of the celebrity endorsement,” referring to Trump, who she said “was going around saying, I'm a man of the people. I'm for you. I care about you. I just knew I wasn't going to help."
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