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Drag superstar and singer-songwriter Trixie Mattel is pretty sure that, whether you know it or not, you've been listening to songs written by queer people your whole life. "An LGBTQ person probably wrote your favorite song," she tells Billboard in a statement. "Come hear why we are so good at it."

Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello has released new protest song ‘Stand Up’. With lyrics focussed on racism and police brutality, the track features Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds, producer the Bloody Beetroots and singer Shea Diamond.“I grew up in the tiny lily white, archly conservative town of Libertyville, Illinois”, says Morello.

Tom Morello has unveiled his new song "Stand Up," a high-octane collaboration with Shea Diamond, Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons and The Bloody Beetroots.

Imagine Dragons star Dan Reynolds has teamed up with Rage Against The Machine guitarist-turned-solo-artist Tom Morello, The Bloody Beetroots and singer Shea Diamond for the charged new single “Stand Up”.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn what is described as a “charged response to both the outrage and solidarity rising from the national reckoning over police brutality and systemic racism,” Rage Against the Machine cofounder Tom Morello has joined forces with Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds, producer The Bloody Beetroots and singer Shea Diamond for a new single called “Stand Up.”The track was written by the four with Justin Tranter and Eren Cannata. Full lyrics can be found below.All four artists will be donating 100% of their proceeds from “Stand Up” to the following organizations: NAACP, Know Your Rights Camp, Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Marsha P.

Rage Against The Machine‘s Tom Morello has teased details of a new protest song inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement.A collaboration with Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds, ‘Stand Up’ is set to arrive today with Morello sharing details on his Instagram account.In a brief sample of the upcoming clip, Morello can be heard delivering a furious guitar line before Reynolds screams the titular words.Morello accompanied the clip with a photo of a Black Lives Matter protestor standing on the roof of a car and confirmed that singer Shea Diamond will also feature on the track. TOMORROW.

On Tuesday (June 30), RCA Records teamed up with the Human Rights Campaign for their 2020 Pride Benefit Concert. The one-hour livestream operated as a fundraiser for the HRC, with some of the organization's supporters stopping by to speak to their mission, while RCA provided tunes courtesy of their talented roster. 

Feel Something Foundation, hosted their Pride Music Business Creatives Roundtable on Sunday, where Lambert and a slew of special guests spoke about discrimination in the industry, their own experiences with coming out, and much more.Moderated by Billboard's Ian Drew, the panel featured appearances from Teddy Geiger, Ferras Algaisi, Justin Tranter, Ames, Shamir, LP, Shea Diamond, Mary Lambert, Parson James, Tyler Glenn, Ilsey Juber, Conchita Wurst, VINCINT and Alex Newell."In the music industry, especially for those of us that are queer and that are technically 'outsiders,' it can be sort of a lonely journey, and it can be sort of isolating," Lambert said at the outset of the event.

We're Here."It had to be for the show, so we needed to talk about We're Here and have it represent what the show stands for, but I still wanted to make sure it feels like a Shea Diamond song," Tranter recalls of the initial writing session. " Like, 'What can we say that no one else has the guts to say?'"The result was just that -- an anthem of love, joy and acceptance that wasn't afraid to fly in the face of those who would detract from queer people, transgender people, or people of color.

While the global coronavirus pandemic may have led to the cancellation of senior proms and pride parades around the country, it didn't stop Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter from throwing a virtual Pride Summit and Prom of our own on Saturday (June 13).

With the coronavirus pandemic keeping people everywhere in their homes, queer people have been left wondering: Is Pride canceled in 2020?

Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter's Pride Summit and Pride Prom – operating digitally this year amidst the coronavirus pandemic -- opened on Saturday (June 13) with a strong call for "every single one of us" to stand up against racism and police brutality. Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors reminding participants in the digital summit that Stonewall was started by black queer and trans activists, and the "police played such a terrible role" in that landmark uprising that kickstarted the modern LGBTQ equality movement. After Cullors' opening statement, singer and activist Shea Diamond used her astonishing voice to convey a related message with her bone-chilling song "Don't Shoot."

Pride Summit and Pride Prom opened with a strong call for "every single one of us" to stand up against racism and police brutality, with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors reminding participants in the digital summit that Stonewall was started by black queer and trans activists, and the "police played such a terrible role" in the landmark uprising that kickstarted the modern LGBTQ equality movement.After Cullors' opening statement, singer and activist Shea Diamond used her astonishing voice to convey a related message musically with her song "Don't Shoot." The highly personal narrative follows Diamond's life, running away as a teen ("Had enough when I was 14 / I ran away so I can foster my dreams / but I didn't have the

Billy Porter is tired of people acting shocked about violence against black people in America. "This is a country that was built on the backs of my ancestors who were stolen from their land to come over here and be forced into slavery," he says. "And the people who wrote the constitution that y'all are so keen on owned slaves while they were writing it. Why are any of you surprised?" 

When she first started performing in drag, Alaska Thunderfuck did it as a means of survival — after leaving her home state of Pennsylvania for Los Angeles, the star says she turned to drag in order to find purpose. "I was doing drag to feed my soul because I was directionless," she says. "Then I ended up, you know, meeting people and getting jobs, doing drag. And so I was like, 'Maybe this is something I can pursue.'"

It took working within the music industry for Kiran Gandhi (known onstage as Madame Gandhi) to realize she wanted to be as an artist — and what she didn't want. Working as a digital analyst for Interscope Records, the now-31-year-old star tracked patterns in Spotify streams and YouTube views, before coming to her own conclusion about the way the major label music business works.

Hayley Kiyoko knew that coming into the music industry as a queer woman wasn't going to be easy, but she did it anyway. "A lot of it was performing for men, and being attractive to men, and if you attract them, then they'll sign you," she says of starting out. "But I never compromised myself."