Maren Morris to donate $1 from every tour ticket to LGBTQ+ organizations

[PartySick 147,401]

1 hour ago, Teletubby said:

do you like this or is Peppa Pig better??

 

I'd like to change my original statement

[clementine 290]

3 hours ago, skaxboy said:

 

This is pretty big given she has a country music background. She has stood up for LGBT folks on numerous occasions. She honestly giving queen behavior. She could have also sat there and done nothing. She was also on Drag Race not too long ago. 

From her Wikipedia page:

In 2017, Morris started the Heroes Fund and raised $70,000 to East Nashville Magnet High School that went towards their music and drama departments.

In April 2021, Morris donated $300,000 to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Together We Rise and Ecologi.

In August 2021, Morris joined several country artists to raise money for the program Together: Feeding Nashville. The concert raised money to address food insecurity in the Nashville area. A total of $450,000 was raised from the show.

Morris has been an advocate for making the country genre more equitable for fellow artists. She has commented on the inequalities particularly for white and black artists in the genre. "I'm a white woman in country music. I already have this sort of leg-up. There's a huge disparity between men and women in our genre, there's even more of a disparity between white women and black women trying to be in country music," she told The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2021.

 

 In her 2020 CMA Awards acceptance speech, Morris named several black artists who helped make the award possible including Mickey Guyton, Linda Martell and Brittney Spencer.

 

In early 2021, Morris spoke out against country artist Morgan Wallen when a video of him using a racial slur surfaced. "You can't control a human being, but you absolutely can let them know where you stand," she told Variety.

In August 2022, Morris replied to an Instagram post made by Jason Aldean's wife, Brittany. Both Morris and other country music singers including Cassadee Pope perceived Aldean's comments as transphobic.

While interviewing Brittany Aldean, Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson referred to Morris as a "lunatic country music person." In response to this comment, Morris sold T-shirts through her website featuring the phrase "lunatic country music person" and the telephone number of the Trans Lifeline. She also stated that proceeds from the shirts would be donated to GLAAD.

In September 2022, Morris partnered with GLAAD to design a new T-shirt in honor of Spirit Day. Morris told The Los Angeles Times in September 2023 that she planned to leave the genre of country music. She cited the country music industry's unwillingness to reckon with issues of misogyny and racism, as well as its reluctance to support artists from marginalized demographics, as her reasons for doing so. 

 

I guess she sorta is a humanitarian. 

 

 I honestly had no idea and I was just trying to be snarky because $1 per ticket sounds like such a lame amount ....I rescind my comment

[faysalaaa 3,137]

4 hours ago, clementine said:

$1? 

Which could end up being $150,000+  and if she adds more dates it would be more. 

[Teletubby 138,436]

1 hour ago, clementine said:

$1 per ticket sounds like such a lame amount

it may not seem too much but her GA tickets costs only $40 

[skaxboy 4,794]

6 hours ago, clementine said:

 

 I honestly had no idea and I was just trying to be snarky because $1 per ticket sounds like such a lame amount ....I rescind my comment

Oh I thought the same thing as soon as heard just one dollar. But then remembered she was on Drag Race and said amazing things. My bf has played her music before so I know a little about her. 
 

Plus I recall her dragging tf out of the fame-hungry, trashy wife of the “Try That In A Small Town” singer, Brittany Aldean. 
 

 

 

Maren read her for filth!