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There are vios of Taylor Swift kissg Karlie Kloss, song lyrics she's wrten about women, and tons of other evince that Taylor Swift is gay

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TAYLOR SWIFT IS GAY, AND I HAVE EVINCE FOR DAYS

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The answer to all those qutns is an emphatic y — but that don’t necsarily make Folklore any ls gay.

It’s no wonr fans have voted lists and more lists to llg out the gayt lyrics her mil pantheon. Among their strongt ntenrs for straight songs that are actually gay: 2009’s “You Belong Wh Me, ” which famoly spawned a versn om a gay male perspective that rerced Swifti’ belief that the song was about reprsed homosexualy all along; and 2018’s “Drs” (“Our secret moments your crowd room / They’ve got no ia about me and you...

She ced fierce backlash 2018 after she urged fans her home state of Tennsee not to vote for the strintly homophobic senatorial ndidate Marsha Blackburn. Vogue’s Abby Aguirre poted this out a September 2019 ver story on the artist, notg that mic vios and songs om as far back as 2010 have portrayed her acceptance of gay relatnships. But throughout 2019, she add activism on behalf of gay rights to her list of showy tras.

THE GAYLORS ARE TURNG ON TAYLOR SWIFT

Is Taylor Swift gay? Queer Taylor Swift fans, lled "Gaylors," believe that the real reason for her breakup om Joe Alwyn is that she's queer and g out. * taylo swift gay *

In June, she released her sgle “You Need To Calm Down” as a Pri month anthem for gay rights. In horror and fantasy, for example, villas and monsters are often metaphors for queerns: Vampir are homoerotic, werewolv are reprsed, and wch are sapphic. Swift the stori of other, often fictnal people Folklore to reflect directly on her own life and inty — and while not explicly queer, Swift’s storytellg veers toward the nscly homoerotic.

After all, lots of wrers do exactly that; wrg queer subtext don’t make you queer any more than wrg a male/male romance turns you to a gay man. Sadly for gay Ameri, none of this brgs closer to Taylor Swift g out as queer and re-rerdg all her songs wh all the appropriate genr-swapped imagery.

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

From Gaylor to #KarmaIsReal: Let’s go down the rabb hole of Taylor Swift fan theori. * taylo swift gay *

But when the folk-re queen released her last album swatched plaid, the gays, we got a’talk’. Gay as “’s about Jake Gyllenhall, ” but also gay as “wow, as a homosexual I relate to this.

i do not listen to taylor swift albums i absorb them and then project onto the lyrics my very specific gay experienc.

I n’t claim to be nearly as much of a #Gaylor diehard as the te champns who’ve dited themselv to bg every last social media post, every public appearance, every exchange — however brief or seemgly signifint — for evince of Taylor’s queerns (and/or evince of a romantic relatnship wh her sometim-BFF Karlie Kloss). I wouldn’t even ll myself a Taylor fan, but I beme a full-on #Gaylor tther, yellg at all of my lleagu that, surely, this famo lady was gog to e out — as bi, as gay, as somethg. She even got a whole bunch of gays to watch her terview wh Rob Roberts durg, of all thgs, the NFL draft, a feat of enormo power if there ever was I’m feelg like reporter Mary Ey O’Hara, who tweeted, “Taylor Swift is hardly the first straight girl I let lead me on.

TAYLOR SWIFT’S SONGS CAN BE AS GAY AS YOU WANT THEM TO BE

In the lead-up to Swift’s new album, groups lled “Gaylors” and “Hetlors” are batg her sexualy (and whether ’s right to speculate at all)." name="scriptn * taylo swift gay *

’”Even though Taylor ma the straightt gay mic vio of all time whout actually g out, seems like the #Gaylor nspiracists haven’t given up hope yet.

Set asi, for the moment, the argument that public figur g out is good for the muny: Openly gay and bisexual people n serve as It Gets Better–style role mols for all the many LGBT people out there who aren’t able to be open their own liv que yet. We’re all livg real-life versns of that famo discsn season one of the L Word, when everybody’s tryg to help Dana figure out if her new love tert is gay: Did you look at her fgernails?

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

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Jt a few short years ago, ditg that a celebry might be gay or bisexual on social media, the prs, or any other kd of public platform uld get you acced of “outg” them whout their permissn. In the leadup to Taylor’s announcement, when mors she’d be g out began to furly fly, the mastream media and the gay prs alike have published piec openly speculatg about whether or not her Big Reveal would be queer-related.

Perhaps, fally, wonrg whether or not someone might be gay or bi don’t have to be treated like we’re pokg at some shameful secret. But there’s another part of me that has to gdggly rpect how she whipped a bunch of full-grown gays who “don’t really re about Taylor Swift” to such a enzy.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

The sger’s pro-gay sgle strangely par her stggl wh fame to more dangero kds of persecutn. * taylo swift gay *

Still, I’ve always enjoyed floatg my half-baked #Gaylor theori to an unspectg group of people bee, to most, Taylor has always jt seemed so… hetero. And that’s not (only) bee she’s very feme, though straight people particular seem to never learn that gays e all kds of packag.

For my entire adult life, I’ve been astonished at people’s abily to nsir that, jt maybe, a famo person — even one who’s famoly dated men and seems way too unol to be queer — uld actually be gay or bisexual.

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Taylor Swift is gay, and here is the evince to prove .

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