Country music star Carrie Underwood has performed at Donald Trump's inauguration, drawing criticism from her LGBTQ+ fanbase and allies. Despite her previous vocal support for gay marriage and women's rights, Underwood's decision to perform at the inauguration of a president who has made numerous anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-women statements has caused a rift among her supporters.
Carrie Underwood has all the proponents of a queer icon: great hair, a glamorous wardrobe and a song catalogue you can’t help but belt on karaoke. After taking a public stance in support of gay marriage back in 2012 , she cemented her place among the musical greats of queer history. And yet now, she’s made the one decision that could take her firmly out of favour with the LGBTQ+ community: she’s performing at Donald Trump ’s inauguration tonight.
‘I feel like more people try to pin me places politically,’ she told the Guardian in 2019. ‘I try to stay far out of politics, if possible, at least in public, because nobody wins. It’s crazy. Everybody tries to sum everything up and put a bow on it, like it’s black and white. And it’s not like that.’
‘As a married person myself, I don't know what it's like to be told I can't marry somebody I love, and want to marry,’ Underwood said of the need to legalise gay marriage back in 2012. ‘I can't imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love.’
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