![]() ![]() But for seemingly inexplicable reasons that Swifties experience on a personal level over and over again and don’t want to admit, I found myself working through the engrained heteronormative/homophobic PR tangle while trying to approach this subject that I had no personal investment in. I have always considered myself an-at the very least-open ally to the LGBTQ+ community. The LGBTQ+ community is constantly on the frontlines of trying to explain and combat a society programmed to operate in a heteronormative manner, and Gaylors, like so many other community members and allies, are constantly being charged with the task of convincing onlookers and explaining their existence, and that field is most certainly not level or fair or just. If I got nasty with you or questioned your experience and knowledge and intuition, I truly apologize. The onslaught of theories that seemingly held no water was completely overwhelming to wade through in the midst of Taylor’s public LGBTQ+-centered political awakening as a supposed ally. As it turns out, she has never publicly addressed the topic of her sexuality or identity as of March 2020.ĭuring the months of being overwhelmed with information May-September and trying to catch up on Taylor’s career, music, and the existence of parallel relationship shipping multiverses on top of her usual blitzkrieg of promoting an album while throwing eggs out like candy, I really rejected and resisted the Gaylor community theories on the basis of Taylor’s PR. I assumed and asserted a lot for someone who hadn’t actually been paying very much attention either way. But I never considered her to have potentially had actual relationships with a female or that some of her songwriting might have been about women. Welcome to New York certainly covered the lyrical facet of her LGBTQ+ -at the least allyship, at the most personal attachment to-community involvement as a celebrity, as far as I was concerned. That just seemed to me to be a thing that she might have said in an interview or two (in reality, she did not). Weirdly enough, in not paying close attention to her career outside of listening to her music, I also simultaneously assumed she had non-committedly designated herself as something along the lines of bisexual/“not straight”/wouldn’t rule out having relationships with women during the 1989 era. Or that a world existed where Taylor Swift wasn’t in the straight relationships her music and image seemed to suggest. I had absolutely no idea who the fuck Karlie, Dianna, or Emily were. In the process of the spring/summer 2019 egg hunt, I came across something mind-blowing. I made this blog to document the egg hunt for what would eventually be the Lover era. When Taylor mentioned loving Tumblr in her Entertainment Weekly video about things that inspire/influence her, I sought out other Swifties to share the era excitement with. ![]() When the reputation tour premiered on Netflix January 2019, I turned in my stan card, rediscovered her entire discography fully, followed her on Instagram, and started playing the pre-Lover Easter egg game. I casually stanned the general Easter eggs of the rep era music videos. I loved her music more as she went more pop on Red and 1989 and reputation. I rarely paid much attention to her celebrity life but I was aware of her general public reputation, good and bad. I have listened to Taylor since her country debut.
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