Taylor Swift's friends are angry for questioning the hitmaker's sexuality, calling it 'invasive, untrue and inappropriate'
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Taylor Swift's friends are angry about an op-ed in The New York Times who questions her sexuality.
The essay, written by Anna Marks, wonders whether the hitmaker – who was spotted leaving a Los Angeles gym on Thursday as she prepared for the international leg of her Eras tour – could be gay.
People close to the 34-year-old Grammy winner are questioning the morality of publishing the article.
“Because of her enormous success, there is a Taylor-shaped hole in people's ethics right now,” a source close to the situation said. CNN.
The content of the article is based on conjecture, and the insider wondered whether there was a double standard in allowing the publication of the op-ed.
Taylor Swift's boyfriend is angry about an op-ed in The New York Times asking whether the hitmaker, 34, is gay. The article suggests outfits like this one worn at Wango Tango in June 2019, and some of the lyrics may convey a message about her sexuality
“This article should not be written about Shawn Mendes or any male artist whose sexuality is questioned by fans,” they told the news station.
“There doesn't seem to be a line that some journalists won't cross when writing about Taylor, no matter how invasive, untrue and inappropriate it is – all under the protective veil of an 'op-ed',” the person stated.
The piece, titled 'Look What We Made Taylor Swift Do', written by one of the newspaper's Opinion editors, looks at lyrics from the Lover artist's oeuvre, which she thinks Sapphic might love.
“Anyone who considers Ms. Swift's entire artistry—the way her brilliantly calculated celebrity blends with her soul-expanding art—can spot discrepancies between the story underlying her celebrity and the story captured in her songs. ' wrote the author.
Marks mentioned examples of her appearance including wearing bisexual pride flag hair colors or rainbow dresses.
She also refers to so-called easter eggs in the lyrics, which refer to being in 'glass closets' in Willow or paying tribute to lesbian artist Louie Fuller during her Reputation tour.
“On their own, a single dropped hairpin may be meaningless or accidental, but taken together they are the unfurling of a ballerina bun after a long performance,” the editor wrote.
“Those fallen hairpins began appearing in Ms. Swift's artistry long before queer identity was undeniably commodified in mainstream America. They imply to queer people that she is one of us.”
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Taylor's supporters blame the publication of the article on a double standard. “This article should not have been written about Shawn Mendes or any male artist whose sexuality is questioned by fans,” a source told CNN (pictured in Arlington, Texas in March 2023).
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The Grammy winner is currently dating NFL star Travis Kelce (pictured in New York in October 2023)
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Taylor has explained her pro-LGTBQ stance as advocacy, explaining to Vogue in 2019, “The rights are being taken away from virtually anyone who is not a heterosexual white cisgender man. I didn't realize until recently that I could advocate for a community I'm not a part of.”
Taylor has explained her pro-LGTBQ stance as advocacy Fashion in 2019: “The rights are being taken away from virtually anyone who is not a straight white cisgender man,” she said at the time.
“I didn't realize until recently that I could advocate for a community I'm not a part of.”
In the prologue to her 1989 album (Taylor's Version), released in October, the Out of the Woods singer, who is currently dating NFL star Travis Kelce, wrote that she surrounded herself with girlfriends because she could avoid the speculation about her romantic contacts with men.
“If I only hung out with my girlfriends, people wouldn't be able to sensationalize or sexualize that, right? I would later learn that people could do that and that people would do that.'