{"id":293327,"date":"2020-06-09T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T18:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1159686"},"modified":"2020-06-09T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T18:31:19","slug":"tan-france-celebrates-monumental-moment-as-he-becomes-u-s-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/tan-france-celebrates-monumental-moment-as-he-becomes-u-s-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Tan France Celebrates &#8220;Monumental&#8221; Moment as He Becomes U.S. Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202059\/rs_600x600-200609095947-tan-france-1.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"26\">\n<p><strong>Tan France<\/strong> is officially a United States citizen.<\/p>\n<p>The fashion designer and star of Netflix&#8217;s <em>Queer Eye<\/em> series, who was born and raised in England, took to Instagram on Tuesday to share the emotional moment with his fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A few minutes ago, I officially became an U.S citizen!!&#8221; France wrote alongside a series of photos from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services center. &#8220;For me, this is monumental. It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been working towards for literally 20 years, which makes this all the more emotional.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And now, I will exercise my constitutional right as an American. Today, I will register to vote, and vote for the change I wish to see in OUR nation,&#8221; the 37-year-old continued.<\/p>\n<p>France has been a vocal supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement, calling on his social media followers to speak out about racism following the death of <strong>George Floyd<\/strong> at the hands of Minnesota police.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.269146608315\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"14.704595185996\">\n<p>&#8220;No, I&#8217;m not saying you have to get out and protest, but take action in your immediate lives at the very least,&#8221; France wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CA5UPl6A8z7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> on June 1. &#8220;Call out racist bulls&#8211;t&nbsp;in your family. Stop acts of racism when you see them, and teach your kids to do the same&#8230;.and stop telling Black people how they should protest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Explaining why the comments section had been turned off on his post, France wrote, &#8220;No comments needed, this isn&#8217;t a conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.29797979798\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8.8181818181818\">\n<p>Just days before being a U.S. citizen, France spoke to his followers about &#8220;voting for change&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CA_Nm6OAXo-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared<\/a> June election dates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;VOTE FOR CHANGE. COMPLETE YOUR CENCUS [sic]. BE COUNTED,&#8221; the author urged his followers. &#8220;IF YOU&#8217;RE NOT COUNTED, YOU&#8217;RE TELLING THEM THAT IT&#8217;S OK TO NOT LISTEN TO YOU.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"31.68\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5.76\">\n<p>Just yesterday, France also spoke out about equality, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CBLbEuFgk02\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writing<\/a> to his social media followers, &#8220;We must all be aligned in the movement towards equality for it to be successful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1159686\/tan-france-celebrates-monumental-moment-as-he-becomes-u-s-citizen?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tan France is officially a United States citizen. The fashion designer and star of Netflix&#8217;s Queer Eye series, who was born and raised in England, took to Instagram on Tuesday to share the emotional moment with his fans. &#8220;A few minutes ago, I officially became an U.S citizen!!&#8221; France wrote alongside a series of photos [&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":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-18 13:08:44","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":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}