Chappell Roan paid tribute to trans girls on the red carpet before the 2025 Grammy Awards on Sunday night. While catching up with GLAAD, the “Good Luck, Babe!” singer was asked if there was anything that she would like to say to the LGBTQ+ community at the end of a difficult week, which saw the incoming Trump administration issuing a series of anti-trans political attacks.
After acknowledging that things are “brutal” right now, Roan told GLAAD red carpet hosts Chrishell Stause and Anthony Allen Ramos, “Trans people have always existed and they will forever exist and they will never, no matter what happens, take trans joy away.”
“I would not be here without trans girls,” she continued. “So just know that pop music is thinking about you and cares about you and I’m trying my best to stand up for you in every way that I can.”
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GLAAD then thanked Roan for bringing queer pop to the mainstream, which prompted the singer to clarify that “a lot of people walked so that I could run.”
“There’s been so many women over the decades and decades of their sexuality being really represented in pop, from disco down to the 2000s like Rihanna, Nicki,” she said. “A lot of people sacrificed a lot so I could be here.” We stan a legend who pays tribute to her predecessors rather than falsely claiming to have invented — ahem — gay pop.
If you can believe it, this marks Chappell Roan’s first Grammy Awards, though she clearly wields pop stardom like a seasoned pro already. She was nominated for six awards ahead of the ceremony, with “Good Luck, Babe!” up for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance. Roan was also nominated for album of the year for The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess, and last but certainly not least, Best New Artist. At the end of the night, it was the latter gong which Chappell walked away with.
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