Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
40 major businesses oppose legislation targeting transgender youth and the LGBTQ community
metroweekly.comDemonstrators protest a South Dakota bill that sought to bar transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming care in February 2020.
The bill was defeated in committee. – Photo: Greg Latza/ACLU. A coalition of more than 40 major corporations has released an open letter calling on lawmakers throughout the United States to cease their efforts to pass bills targeting LGBTQ people, and transgender youth in particular.
The signatories to the letter include a number of major businesses, including AT&T, Capital One, Dow Inc., Google, Hilton, Microsoft, Salesforce, Lyft, and Uber — all of whom have been outspoken in their opposition to other legislation targeting the LGBTQ community in past years.
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