Thread by @dykesforharry, harry styles supporting the LGBTQ+ community consistently over the years, a much [...]

harry styles supporting the LGBTQ+ community consistently over the years, a much needed thread:

march, 2012. harry out and about wearing his "love is equal" shirt:

june, 2013. harry attended pride:

on july 19, 2013. the westboro baptist church picketed one of one direction’s concerts. harry was the only member to call them out:

during the concert itself, harry also made sure to reassure to LGBTQ+ fans that one direction concerts are a safe space for them:

february, 2014. harry gives a shoutout to the london lesbian & gay switchboard on their 40 years anniversary:

june, 2014. harry joins the stonewall campaign:

june 28, 2014. it was the day of the gay pride parade in milan, italy. harry wished everyone a "happy pride":

august 28, 2014. harry wore michael sam's jersey on stage to show his support for the first openly gay player drafted into the NFL:

harry pointing to sam's name:

january 14, 2015.

january 28, 2015. harry likes this tweet:

june 26, 2015. the day same-sex marriage was legalised in america, harry made sure to post about it on twitter and instagram and liked a few posts:

june 27, 2015. the day after same-sex marriage was legalised in america, harry read a fan’s sign that said "love wins" and mouthed "always".

on that same concert, harry made sure to acknowledge his LGBTQ+ fans who were celebrating in the audience:

july 2015, harry starts picking up pride flags and dancing around with them during one direction concerts:

august 27, 2015. harry wears a "i study rainbows" bracelet made by a fan:

at this point, harry is constantly picking up pride flags during one direction concerts and dancing around with them, so i'm not gonna list every time he did it.

september 12, 2015. harry had a few things to say:

february 8, 2016:

june 12, 2016. after the shooting in the gay club pulse in orlando, harry made two posts:

harry and his pride pins:

september 19, 2017. on harry's first solo show, of course he picked up the pride flag:

from then on, harry waved an LGBT flag (sometimes more than one) at ALL the remaining concerts of his 2017 tour - except one (glasgow).

october 1, 2017. five weeks after trump’s memo to ratify the prohibition from trans people in the military, harry had a show in washington. he hung trans flags off his drummer’s set, in the centre of the stage, and waved one around, aside from his usual rainbow flag:

october 26, 2017. harry on instagram:

november 5, 2017. harry gives a speech:

november 26, 2017. the results of australia’s marriage law proposal survey (the first step towards legalising same-sex marriage in australia) were made public the 15th of november. harry had a concert in sydney 11 days later, where he said this:

november 28, 2017. two days later, at the ARIA awards, also in australia, harry received his first-ever major solo award and said this in his acceptance speech:

june, 2018. harry released two especial editions of his “treat people with kindness” merch t-shirts that would exclusively sell for the month of june. all it's proceeds were donated to GLSEN, which is an organisation that aims to ensure safe and inclusive schools for LGBT youth:

during june 2018, harry wished fans a "happy pride" a bunch of times. june 5, dallas:

june 14, hershey:

june 21, MSG:

june 22, MSG:

june 24, washington:

june 24, washington, again. the second time was while he sang medicine:

this is very important to me. a lot of people like do downplay what harry does as just "waving flags". but the fact that he waves flags has actually helped people come out and created a safe space for fans: