Gay Love Songs: Men Sgg About Men – Billboard

Contents:

• CARL NASSIB, THE NFL’S ONLY OPENLY GAY PLAYER, IS A HUGE SWIFTIE
• 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• 55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ PRI SONGS)

CARL NASSIB, THE NFL’S ONLY OPENLY GAY PLAYER, IS A HUGE SWIFTIE

If we weren't already ecstatic enough, she then dropped seven more songs at 3 am wh Midnights (3 am Edn) Swift has never formally claimed a queer inty, there are mors, and queer fans, cludg myself, have always had fun fdg gay easter eggs her mic. Here are the gayt songs om Midnights and Midnights (3 am Edn), ranked orr of queerns. " Hontly, the whole thg feels like a giant metaphor for women who date women and the ternalized homophobia that often wh .

While Swift has explicly said that "Lavenr Haze" is about havg to navigate datg the public eye and her six-year relatnship wh actor Joe Alwyn, the lyrics haven't stopped Swifti om seeg another meang, and nnectg "lavenr haze" to the anti-gay Lavenr Sre. " This is hontly the perfect answer to everyone's evable homophobic relativ, and I n't promise I won't e at the next fay gatherg. " is gay.

" Talk about a queer narrative of homophobia turned to acceptance. " Extremely gay.

30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

Still more asked: okay, but is gay? What do Taylor Swift and the gays have mon? Like several other (gayer) songs on this rerd, this is a charmg ltle love tune about an adoratn so fect blocks out the rt of the world.

I love a pebble ty as a firefly as much as the next gay whose pockets are weighed down wh rocks after every walk. Fellas, is gay to feel like you’re the worst and marate your gltery misery about ? Put kdly, this level of trospectn says, “Oh, I’ve been to therapy, ” and nobody lov therapy like the gays.

Have an as-yet-unheard #Gaylor nspiracy theory? “Even though this is an album about Taylor Swift’s life and her very specific experienc, she has such a grasp on the human language that she n make universally applible, ” Annika shared over a Zoom 24-year-old doctoral stunt classifi herself as a member of the Swift fandom known as “Gaylors. ” The fans are largely members of the LGBTQ+ muny who believe Swift to also be queer and that the artist shar stori and clu about her sexual inty her the past two years, the Gaylor fandom gaed tractn thanks to onle venu such as TikTok givg them a platform to exprs their queer unrstandg of Swift’s mic.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

The muny grew exponentially as Gaylors worldwi unpacked the nse lyrics and LGBTQ+ symbolism albums such as “folklore” and “evermore, ” both released 2020. Pfeffer is also the host of “History is Gay, ” a podst unverg patterns of queerns throughout history and famo historil term “queer flaggg” dat back to the 1970s when gay men New York Cy would wear certa lored hankerchiefs to subtly announce they were lookg for other gay men.

55 BT GAY SONGS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ PRI SONGS)

”The signifince of “hair” this lyric relat to “the hairp drop heard around the world, ” an alias for The Stonewall Rts, or a seri of protts ma by gay muny members New York Cy 1969 on behalf of LGBTQ+ equaly. Pfeffer said “droppg hairps” was also a slang term ed to ht that you were gay durg the nnectns to queer history wh “evermore, ” the album precedg “Midnights” (not cludg Swift’s re-rerd albums), may expla why speculatn for the sger’s latt release to be an LGBTQ+ haven was more prevalent than the past. 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. 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. “Lavenr Haze” is the tle of the first track on Midnights, and sce lavenr is equently ed as a symbol of the queer muny, Gaylors me to the ncln that “Lavenr Haze” would probably be a pretty gay song.

Then Swift took her reasong, for many Gaylors, a bridge too far. So Swift was not only gog to make “Lavenr Haze” a song about straight people, but she was also gog to ll Gaylor theori “weird”? “Us Gaylors, we are Ukrae, ” one Gaylor said a now-leted TikTok rponse.

The “Lavenr Haze” bacle isn’t the first time Swift has gotten Gaylors’ hop up only to dash them at the last mute. In the lead-up to announcg her 2019 album Lover, Swift took to drsg rabows (the symbol of gay pri! In the mic vio for the album’s send sgle, “You Need to Calm Down, ” she donned a wig the lors of the bisexual flag and sang about gay pri.

The Gaylor rponse to “Lavenr Haze” might feel hyperbolic or needlsly aggrsive, pecially sce Swift has never ma any public statements about beg queer and has been multiple extremely public relatnships wh men. A new generatn of filmmakers move beyond the ‘bury your gays’ trope.

Among them was Carl Nassib, the fensive end for the Tampa Bay Bucneers who me out last summer a quiet but groundbreakg Instagram post, makg him the NFL’s only openly gay player, and the only active openly gay male athlete any of the four major Amerin sports leagu. 30 Gay Love Songs: Men Sgg About Men. From steamy dance tracks to tenr pop ballads, gay love songs e all shap and siz.