THIS WHOLE ARTICLE WAS SO THERAPEUTIC.
In your expert opinion, what is Taylor Swift’s gayest song to date? I feel like there are a few acceptable answers to this question.
Gayest song, “Dress,” because I just — who could possibly think things like that about a man? And “False God,” too. It’s like worshiping at the hips of a man, but that can’t be true. And then music video, I recently forced my girlfriend to watch the “Bad Blood” music video because I was like, “This is a cultural artifact, and it actually hurts my feelings that you haven’t seen it.” And holy shit. I forgot how gay this video is. It’s literally just about being horny for hot girls.
Can you briefly summarize some of the most compelling Gaylor evidence out there?
I mean, The 1975 concert feels like the smoking gun. And the Big Sur photo shoot — I mean just very, very intimate. At a certain point, it’s like, I don’t even know if it is intimate or if it’s because I am so gay. I just can’t look at photos of women behaving that way together and not be like, “They’re dating.”
Was that something you thought about while writing the book?
Totally. I think with the chapter I wrote about grappling with my own Taylor Swift stuff was, how much of this [Gaylor theorizing] is, as we say, concrete evidence? And how much of this is me being so gay that I quite literally can’t help myself? And how much of this is this really nosy queer thing of wanting to find other queer people — not to out them, but because queer people literally, as a form of survival, have always wanted to and needed to find other queer people?
We need possibility models — queer artists, queer pop stars…
Yes. Unfortunately, it still would be a really big deal if somebody as big as Taylor Swift came out. Even though queerness is so much more present in pop culture, it’s not like Beyoncé is gay. … I can’t speak for all Gaylors, but it’s not coming from a mean-spirited place. It’s also not coming from a place of knowing that person being out would ruin their public life and career, because things are so different now. It’s more like, I want Taylor Swift to be gay because I am gay and I love Taylor Swift, and I want us to be as similar as I feel that we are.
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