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Elton John, Furnish Launch Pride Podcast Awards Amid Rights Rollback

6/2/2026

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Elton John and David Furnish launched Elton John Impact Awards with iHeartMedia and Procter & Gamble for Pride Month.
The awards honor LGBTQ+ Jonathan Bailey, Laverne Cox, Melissa Etheridge, Billie Jean King, Orville Peck and Chappell Roan.
The awards will be a podcast series on the iHeartRadio app.
David Furnish warned that hostility is rolling back rights and criminalising LGBTQ+ communities, and called the awards a resistance to keep queer joy alive.

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Elton John and David Furnish launched Elton John Impact Awards with iHeartMedia and Procter & Gamble for Pride Month.
The awards honor LGBTQ+ Jonathan Bailey, Laverne Cox, Melissa Etheridge, Billie Jean King, Orville Peck and Chappell Roan.
The awards will be a podcast series on the iHeartRadio app.
David Furnish warned that hostility is rolling back rights and criminalising LGBTQ+ communities, and called the awards a resistance to keep queer joy alive.