Russell Tovey joins the Green Party fearing that Reform will destroy LGBTQ+ rights

As the Green Party rises in the polls, more well-known people are sharing their support. In the past, famous faces such as David Attenborough and Joanna Lumley have endorsed the party. Now, another star has thrown his support behind Zack: Russell Tovey.

Russell Tovey is now a Zacktivist

Speaking to the Guardian, star of stage and screen Russell Tovey said of the Green Party:

Their slogan – make hope normal again – is what we need. It’s like Harvey Milk saying, ‘You’ve got to give them hope.’ We have to have hope.

It’s hinted in the interview that the reason he joined Green is his fear that Reform will get in and that Labour will not protect queer people.

The star, who has been openly gay his whole adult life, previously spoke about how the LGBTQ+ community has to stand together against reform.

At the Attitude Awards, where he was named Man of the Year, he said:

It feels like Reform are getting in, and we can’t keep hiding our heads under the covers. Reform will be running this country.

He continued:

Now, as a community, we need to rally to protect everything we hold sacred, we need to ring fence and water tie all of our rights and liberties as they begin to decimate them and all that we’ve achieved and our dearly departed have achieved from day one.

Although Russell Tovey is passionate about change, he brushed away any mention of getting into politics in the Guardian interview with “I just care about people and my community.” He’s also wary of making famous people like himself role models, likening instead people who care deeply about their communities to lighthouses:

These beacons, that are shining a light going, ‘This way!’ Things are fucking rocky [so let’s] build more lighthouses and be that fucking light that shines out, so people can find you through this dark, cold water that we’re being plunged into.

And that is why people like Tovey are exactly who we need and hopefully who parties like the Greens will work hard to keep on their side in the fight against the far right.

Featured image via the Canary