Taylor Swift Appears to Finally End the Rumors That She's Queer
glamour.com1989.Screenshots of the prologue for “Taylor’s Version” of the beloved 2014 pop LP began circulating on X, formerly known as Twitter, on October 26, as and other outlets noted.
The text of the prologue—which was later verified as authentic by —includes a reference to the intense speculation surrounding Swift’s mid-2010s friendships with women like model Karlie Kloss.“I swore off dating and decided to focus only on myself, my music, my growth, and my female friendships,” Swift wrote, referring to this period of her career. “If I only hung out with my female friends, people couldn’t sensationalize or sexualize that right?
I would learn later on that people could and people would.”That final sentence appears to be a direct reference to the , a hyper-online group of Taylor Swift fans who believe that the singer-songwriter is a closeted bisexual or lesbian woman who has been leaving clues about her sexuality with a level of calculation that, frankly, would make her a criminal mastermind.
Gaylors, as proponents of the theory are known, have analyzed Swift’s friendships with Kloss , , and perhaps most crucially, the lyrics of her love songs to build their case that the pop icon would one day come out of the closet.From my own observations as a Reddit lurker, Gaylors were already reeling from the news of Swift’s relationship with , which began making headlines around the time many were expecting that Swift might finally make an announcement about her sexuality.
