{"id":974282,"date":"2020-01-07T07:47:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=934361"},"modified":"2020-01-07T07:47:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:47:09","slug":"taylor-swift-janet-mock-to-be-honored-at-2020-glaad-media-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/taylor-swift-janet-mock-to-be-honored-at-2020-glaad-media-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift, Janet Mock to be Honored at 2020 GLAAD Media Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/aylorjanet.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/taylor-swift\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/janet-mock\/\" id=\"auto-tag_janet-mock\" data-tag=\"janet-mock\">Janet Mock<\/a> will be the honorees at the 31st Annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/glaad\/\" id=\"auto-tag_glaad\" data-tag=\"glaad\">GLAAD<\/a> Media Awards, to be held April 16th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Swift will be presented with GLAAD\u2019s Vanguard Award, presented to allies who have made a significant difference in advocating for the rights of LGBTQ people. Mock will be awarded the Stephen F. Kolzak Award, named after casting director Stephen F. Kolzak and presented to an LGBTQ media professional who has paved ways for LGBTQ acceptance in the media.<\/p>\n<p>Mock is known for her best-selling memoirs as well as her work on Ryan Murphy\u2019s Emmy-winning FX series&nbsp;<em>Pose<\/em>; she\u2019s the first trans woman of color to write and direct an episode of television. (<em>Pose&nbsp;<\/em>received the Outstanding Drama Series award at last year\u2019s ceremony.) She recently signed a three-year deal with Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Swift released the single \u201cYou Need to Calm Down,\u201d which touched on LGBTQ rights, with a music video that featured queer and trans celebrities like Laverne Cox, Billy Porter, Rupaul, Ellen Degeneres, the <em>Queer Eye<\/em> cast, Hayley Kiyoko and Adam Rippon. (The song also features the lyric, \u201cWhy be mad when you can be GLAAD?\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>During last year\u2019s Pride Month, Swift penned an open letter to Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander, urging him to support the Equality Act, which would protect LGBTQ Americans from discrimination in employment, housing and more. She\u2019s also supported the Nashville-based Tennessee Equality Project (TEP), working to defeat six anti-LGBTQ bills in the state and raise awareness of Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn\u2019s history of LGBTQ discrimination during her reelection campaign.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/rollingstone.com\/t\/beyonce\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jay-z\/\">Jay-Z<\/a> received the Vanguard Award, while the Stephen F. Kolzak Award went to&nbsp;<em>Will &amp; Grace<\/em>&nbsp;actor Sean Hayes.<\/p>\n<p>The GLAAD Media Award nominees will be announced on January 8th.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-janet-mock-glaad-media-awards-934361\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift and Janet Mock will be the honorees at the 31st Annual GLAAD Media Awards, to be held April 16th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Swift will be presented with GLAAD\u2019s Vanguard Award, presented to allies who have made a significant difference in advocating for the rights of LGBTQ people. Mock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 10:35:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}