From Kaylor to Folklore: How Taylor Swift beme a gay in - Vox

Contents:

• SORRY GAYLOR FANS — TAYLOR SWIFT HAS SPOKEN ON HER SEXUALY
• THE #KAYLOR THEORI ARE BACK — IS TAYLOR SWIFT GAY?
• TAYLOR SWIFT IS GAY, AND I HAVE EVINCE FOR DAYS
• TAYLOR SWIFT MAK STRONG SE FOR GAY IN STAT DURG “ERAS” TOUR
• TAYLOR SWIFT'S 'GAYLOR' FANS THK SHE'S ABOUT TO MAKE A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT POST-BREAKUP & THEY'VE BEEN STACKG EVINCE
• COLORADO'S GAY GOVERNOR WR TAYLOR SWIFT AN EPIC OPEN LETTER
• COLORADO’S GAY GOVERNOR OUT… AS A MASSIVE TAYLOR SWIFT FAN

SORRY GAYLOR FANS — TAYLOR SWIFT HAS SPOKEN ON HER SEXUALY

A certa branch of Swifti, known as "Gaylors, " have long found queer subtext and them her mic — particularly sapphic listeners who fd solace and mararie Swift's acunts of quiet yearng, forbidn love, and female timacy. "Songs like "Wele to New York" and "You Need to Calm Down" boast overt nods to LGBTQ , while others nta subtle phras and slang that are wily known wh the gay muny — and therefore highly unlikely to have flown beneath Swift's diligent radar. "When asked specifilly about the aforementned le on a 2014 episo of "The Talk, " Swift rpond, "I wrote the song kd of followg when gay marriage beme legal New York.

THE #KAYLOR THEORI ARE BACK — IS TAYLOR SWIFT GAY?

"You took a Polaroid of / Then disvered / The rt of the world was black and whe / But we were screamg lor, " she sgs the first juxtaposn between the monochromatic world and the relatnship's "screamg lor" rri the implitn of a queer awakeng, as gay pri is heavily associated wh vibrance and rabows. Jt the tle of "New Romantics" uld be terpreted as a cheeky nod to queerns, pecially sce the public support for gay marriage began htg new highs the years that Swift wrote "1989. "The tle appli a mon idm, "ed to say that someone is unable to act eely bee somethg (such as a le or law) prevents , " acrdg to a hyper-famo woman, Swift is likely "unable to act eely" a new relatnship for fear of mors, tabloids, and a queer ntext, "Dancg Wh Our Hands Tied" ptur the fear of g out and beg met wh homophobia.

TAYLOR SWIFT IS GAY, AND I HAVE EVINCE FOR DAYS

"She seems to nod to the gay-pri flag both the vio and the lyrics, sgg of herself, "But one of the thgs is not like the others / Like a rabow wh all of the lors. ""And when 's me, 's like — dancers, ts, gay pri, people untry wtern boots.

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TAYLOR SWIFT MAK STRONG SE FOR GAY IN STAT DURG “ERAS” TOUR

"Swift has ed "chosen fay" to scribe iends she ma her 20s, specifilly those she left behd: "It's sad but sometim when you grow, you outgrow relatnships, " she wrote the term is also eply entwed wh the LGBTQ muny, where 's ed to scribe a group of iends, ually queer, who support and celebrate your inty — pecially the face of homophobia or faial rejectn. " It was origally ed as a synonym for a gay man, but 's more monly ed today as a tchall for any member of the LGBTQ muny. Stars like Gee Michael and Colton Hayn have scribed the "isolatn" and emotnal pa this ed before they felt fortable publicly g out as gay.

""Droppg hairps" is a well-known phemism the LGBTQ muny, scribed by the New York Tim as "a tradnal gay gamb. ""This means to drop clu, if not outright statements, about one's own homosexualy an effort to duce one's terlocutor to follow su, " the Tim reported Stonewall Inn prott is also known as "the hairp drop heard around the world. "Lavenr Sre, " for example, was ed to scribe the moral panic about homosexualy that gripped the US durg the Cold War, while the "Lavenr Menace" was a group of activists who fought for lbian liberatn  the ' early e of the term "Lavenr Haze" n be found  the poem "Sunday" by Jam Schuyler, published his 1974 llectn "Hymn to Life, " which also clud a seri of "explicly gay love poems, " acrdg to the Los Angel Review of song's mic vio leans heavily on the purple hue, showg Swift surround by lavenr-lored liquid, smoke, stars, and flowers.

" And as we know om Swift's own words, "sha never ma anybody ls gay. One stan that remas year after year is #Gaylor. An ever-growg ntgent of fans believe that Taylor Alison Swift is secretly gay.

TAYLOR SWIFT'S 'GAYLOR' FANS THK SHE'S ABOUT TO MAKE A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT POST-BREAKUP & THEY'VE BEEN STACKG EVINCE

Yet #Gaylor has remaed a steadfast theory among some small segments of her fandom. Some even say ’s to equate Gaylor theori to the good fun of fdg referenc and hidn secrets Swift’s body of work.

COLORADO'S GAY GOVERNOR WR TAYLOR SWIFT AN EPIC OPEN LETTER

The fg factor of Gaylor — which fans have remaed attached to, year after year, project after project — is that the pop star has been there for them.

So even if Midnights isn’t the gay album of their dreams, they won’t give up the theory. And like many other thgs her life, Taylor has kept much of those tails pretty Getty ImagArticle ntu below advertisementSwifti have ma untls "Gaylor" claims over the most celebri, many of Taylor's fans have theorized about her sexualy, lookg for clu to nfirm their spicns.

Dpe the many theori that Taylor is secretly a gay in, she has ma clear that she's not gay — or even bisexual. The send is the Gaylor theory. We’re about to dive a ltle eper down to the rabb hole as we turn to the Gaylor theory.

COLORADO’S GAY GOVERNOR OUT… AS A MASSIVE TAYLOR SWIFT FAN

Is Taylor Swift secretly gay?

The most expansive fn of a Gaylor would be, “Someone who is terted brgg a queer readg to Swift’s songbook. ” A person who is very certa that Swift is straight and that her longterm partnership wh Joe Alwyn is for real, but also feels “Betty” is a eply queer song, might intify as a Gaylor.

The tegory also clus people who believe strongly that Swift is eher gay or bisexual and the closet but has had secret relatnships wh women.