Steve Grand's debut album, All-American Boy, is out this week but
he's talking about more than music.
The singer who came to fame as a YouTube sensation is an openly gay
man who is also mindful of the issues and challenges facing the trans
community.
"...We can’t forget about the T in LGBT,' he tells The Daily Beast. 'I think now it’s our trans brothers and
sisters that we really need to allow to take the lead. We need to listen to
them and support them the way they have supported us all these years.'
'I feel like they’ve put their needs, they’ve taken a backseat, to
really help marriage equality come through and help people accept gay people
better but that doesn’t necessarily help trans people,' he adds. 'I think we
need to be there to support them now.
'There’s a lot of issues that community faces that gay and lesbian
people don’t have to face. There’s issues of what bathrooms they can go to and
there’s blatant discrimination against them and even the way society thinks of
gender is problematic for the way they see themselves and want to be seen by
society.
'We have a long way to go. We’re really just beginning now so we
really need to allow trans people to take the lead.'
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