This week, we joined the Tennessee Equality Project, the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition, actor and musician Chris Carmack, and legendary singer-songwriter Desmond Child in Nashville to call on the music industry to take a stand against the discriminatory bills currently pending in Tennessee.

Tennessee’s House Bill 1840 and House Bill 2414 would allow medical professionals to refuse mental health services to LGBT patients and would deny transgender youth from using the bathroom that matches their identity, respectively.

There is no doubt that these anti-LGBT bills will jeopardize the state’s economy, while simultaneously threatening the rights and safety of LGBT people in the Volunteer State. 

Nashville is America’s music capital, and the companies, artists, and allied businesses there alone contribute more than $9.7 billion dollars to Tennessee’s economy. We are calling on the music industry and Hollywood to stand with us in a united front against discrimination.

Make your voice heard! Tell the record companies of Nashville to do the right thing and take a stand against discrimination.