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LTLE MIX'S JA THIRLWALL WANTED TO BE 'A BETTER LGBTQ+ ALLY’ AFTER SUICI OF GAY FAN
Obvly, we have a massive gay fan base and so to be given that award is jt… [s] The majory of our iends, pecially London, are LGBT+, ” Ja Thirlwall tells Attu an terview. “I didn’t want to be that person who was like, ‘I love gog to gay bars and I have a gay iend. “I wanted to te myself and learn how to bat homophobia, ” she adds, “Or know what to say when our LGBT+ fans msage or send tweets: ‘I don’t know what to do, I don’t know how to e out to my parents, '” Thirwall ntu, “We have so many LGBT+ fans.
Ltle Mix’s advocy for the LGBTQ muny has been noted by Attu the past; they were honored wh the “Honourary Gay” award last month. I said that to my sister the other day bee she’s gay. Cse I'm yoursThe group's words touched gay fans — of which they have many — who wonred if was an LGBT anthem.
The Ltle Mix star said felt a “nnectn” to the LGBTQ+ muny bee she has stggled wh her inty “my whole life”Ja ThirlwallJa Thirlwall was kickstarted to be a “better LGBTQ+ ally” after the suici of a young gay Ltle Mix fan the Middle East. Speakg out durg Pri Month, the sger revealed how she’s been workg to fend the LGBTQ+ muny agast discrimatn, and the band’s gay fan base has helped her to unrstand the stggl and difficulti many still face. “I received a msage om a boy the Middle East who hadn’t e out bee his untry homosexualy is illegal, ” Ja began.