Country singer Maren Morris was awarded GLAAD’s Excellence in Media Award at Saturday’s ceremony, she could help but mark the occasion by remembering how then-Fox host Tucker Carlson helped her efforts to promote LGBTQ equality. Calling Morris a “lunatic” and a “fake country singer” according to Yahoo Entertainment, Carlson targeted the singer for her support of the LGBTQ community, and she turned Carlson’s insults into a line of “lunatic country music person” t-shirts that raised more than $150,000 for LGBTQ charities.
“Fine, maybe I felt a little badass taking Tucker Carlson’s calling me a lunatic for standing up to transphobia, turning it into a T-shirt and raising $150,000 for LGBTQ+ charities, yeah,” Morris said accepting the award. “That made me feel a little cool, but I don’t want to gloat. I would never insult the recently unemployed.”