Title: 7 Queer Celebrities Helping The LGBTQ+ Community
Headings: 7 Queer Celebrities Doing Great Things For The LGBTQ+ Community
7 Queer Celebrities Doing Great Things For The LGBTQ+ Community
1. Ellen DeGeneres
2. Miley Cyrus
3. Ellen Page
4. Laverne Cox
5. George Takei
6. Lady Gaga
7. Neil Patrick Harris

Content: Ellen has continued to be an outspoken advocate for the LBGTQ+ community alongside wife, Porta de Rossi, with her advocacy efforts including (but not limited to): speaking out against anti-LGBT legislation and challenging a presidential candidate on his anti-LBGT stance. Actress Jane Lynch has even called Ellen a "pioneer" for the LGBT community , and it's clear she's not wrong about that. 2. Miley Cyrus
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Miley Cyrus has described herself as pansexual over the past several years, slowly emerging as a young leader in advancing LGBTQ+ rights. Cyrus recently launched her Happy Hippie Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to helping homeless and LGBT youth. She's also kicked off #InstaPride, an initiative with Instagram that encourages people to be outspoken in sharing their stories as members of the transgender community. If that wasn't enough, Miley went and got an equal sign tattooed on her ring finger , representing her support of gay marriage and marriage equality as a whole. "I believe every American should be allowed the same rights and civil liberties," Miley wrote in an essay for Glamour Magazine. " Without legalized same-sex marriage, most of the time you cannot share the same health benefits, you are not considered next of kin and you are not granted the same securities as a heterosexual couple.