Jade Thirlwall

GAY TIMES Honour for Allyship presented by Instagram

“I think the more that I learn about my allyship and what I can be doing and how I should be doing those things, the more passionate I've become in using my voice and using it in the right way,” says one-third of the world’s biggest girl group, Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall. The LGBTQ+ community favours our pop girls as natural advocates for the queer cause, but Jade can count herself as one of very few who takes that mantle and embodies it in everything she does. From marching with UK Black Pride and working with LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall, to platforming queer performers in Little Mix music videos and becoming the unofficial brand ambassador for RuPaul’s Drag Race, Jade has proven herself to be one of the greatest allies the community has today. Who else were we going to give this year’s GAY TIMES Honour for Allyship presented by Instagram to? It was an easy decision.

“The immediate flurry of those transphobes on Twitter and the TERFs, I was like, fuck!”

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