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How Academy Proud Aims to Create ‘A Sense of Belonging’ for LGBTQ+ People at the Recording Academy

Academy Proud, the Recording Academy's new LGBTQ+ initiative, aims to raise representation for queer and trans musicians. Find out how here.

After watching LGBTQ+ artists dominate at the 2024 Grammy Awards, Ryan Butler — the Recording Academy’s vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion — says he’s finally seeing his team’s hard work pay off. So, what the membership resource groups do is create a sense of belonging, and give someone who is maybe Grammy-curious, and who may have joined us at a Grammy House event, to know and understand that the Recording Academy can be their home. The launch of the initiative happened in tandem with this year’s ceremony, which saw a lot of historic wins for the LGBTQ+ community — alongside having a wide range of LGBTQ nominees, three of the Big Four winners were queer women.

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