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LGBTQ+ support

Jane Fonda has publicly shown her support of the LGBTQ community many times throughout her career. One of the most recent being in August of 2021 when Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen, and Sam Waterston (Cast of Grace and Frankie) along with other advocates, joined together to support a fundraiser hosted by the Los Angeles LGBT center to help members of the LGBTQ+ community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jane Fonda was speaking out about being an LQBTQ+ ally long before it was acceptable. The earliest account of her showing her support for the LGBTQ+ community was a video of a 1979 interview during the White Night Riots in San Fransisco after the first openly gay politician in California, Harvey Milk s assassination. She was good friends with Harvey and was showing her remorse and anger by attending this event. During the event an interview took place where she was asked if the queer community was still being discriminated against, to which she replied by saying that they are "culturally, psychologically, economically, politically" being discriminated against. Fonda was then asked if the queer community has used her as an advocate and she replied by saying she hopes they use her, though she stressed that "they are a very powerful movement, they don't need me, but they like me (and) they know by working together we can be stronger than either entity is by itself."

Fonda was photographed seated on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun; the photo outraged a number of Americans, and earned her the nickname "Hanoi Jane". In her 2005 autobiography, she wrote that she was manipulated into sitting on the battery; she had been horrified at the implications of the pictures. In a 2011 entry at her official website, Fonda explained: