""I thought I had found God. What I actually had found was an early enduring attraction to queer people and an exciting new form of rejection," she joked. "Even then, before I had language for it, I was drawn to something in this community. The creativity, the fearlessness, the refusal to apologise for taking up space or expressing yourself fully," she said."
""Friends were getting sick, cast mates were vanishing overnight. We were all terrible and the government didn't care... there was no choice for me but to be an ally and forever an advocate to this community," she explained. "When the people you love are fighting for your lives, you fight alongside them.""
Jane Krakowski received the Ally for Equality Award at the Human Rights Campaign's 2026 Greater New York Dinner on 7 February. Her connection to the queer community began in childhood when her father directed a local production of Godspell, sparking an early attraction to queer people. Her Broadway debut occurred in 1987 amid the AIDS crisis, during which friends and castmates fell ill while the government largely ignored the crisis, prompting her to become a lifelong ally. Krakowski expressed sadness that the government continues to turn its back on LGBTQ+ people and highlighted attacks on transgender youth under the Trump administration.
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