Pt. 1 of That’s Gay Tay — a list of incredibly 🌈 things Taylor has done artistically & publicly
spent all Lesbian Visibility Day saying “ME! Out Now,” where in the music video she is seen dancing in a rainbow kaleidoscope, leading a massive pride parade under a rainbow sky, rejecting an engagement ring for a cat (among other things!)
explicitly equated herself with gay pride, saying / illustraiting that it is something that makes “me, me!”
made a surprise appearance at Stonewall Inn during pride month
wore this at Wango Tango during Pride Month in 2019
flew on a rainbow-horned caticorn wearing a rainbow shirt while a bearded man literally rode on the coat-tails of her success
sang “don’t step on our gowns” and repeatedly incorporates herself within the queer community (ie. the yntcd music video, pride month posts / speeches throughout the years) and the way she makes it a point to address the delicacy of coming out
described her first re-recording release as “this first outing”
danced around in rainbows for two entire eras (rep & lover)
expressed public support for / aligns herself with queer artists (girl in red, Hayley Kiyoko, Tegan and Sara, Troye Sivan, among many others) and queer media (Killing Eve, Booksmart, Queer Eye)
featured numerous queer artists / celebrities in YNTCD music video (Ellen DeGeneres, Laverne Cox, Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown, Antoni Porowski, Jonathan van Ness, Bobby Berk and Tan France, RuPaul, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita, Billy Porter, Adam Lambert, Adam Rippon, Hayley Kiyoko, Todrick Hall, Chester Lockhart, Dexter Mayfield, Hannah Hart)
+ bonus — Hannah Hart’s tweet about gorgeous >> appearance in YNTCD music video
advocated for the Equality Act / denounced homophobic politicians)
gets away with saying all kinds of things
also this and this and also these
plus these particular advertisements
continuously wears rainbows / pride colors (wango tango | yntcd hair | yntcd heels | yntcd daisy dream boots | wildest dreams (taylor’s version) shirt | reputation magazine | endgame dress | 1989 tour jacket | delicate reputation dresses version 1 & version 2 | gma outfit | yntcd after party | these shoes in the at&t 2017 ad and on and on and on)
regularly employs queer tropes and closet motifs (more on this in another post)
and that’s just scratching the surface. this doesn’t even account for her lyrics, music videos, public beards/private relationships, and commentary and analyses about her art
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