Taylor Swift Fans Furious Over Essay Questioning Her Sexuality
newsweek.comNew York Times opinion piece that speculated about the singer's sexuality.In a lengthy essay published earlier this week, opinion editor Anna Marks argued that Swift has been leaving hints about her sexuality in her work."In isolation, a single dropped hairpin is perhaps meaningless or accidental, but considered together, they're the unfurling of a ballerina bun after a long performance," Marks wrote."Those dropped hairpins began to appear in Ms.
Swift's artistry long before queer identity was undeniably marketable to mainstream America. They suggest to queer people that she is one of us."Swift, who is dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, addressed speculation about her sexuality in the prologue for her album,1989 (Taylor's Version) in October.Constant headlines about her dating life made her decide "to focus only on myself, my music, my growth, and my female friendships," she wrote."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."On her advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community, Swift told Vogue in 2019 that she "didn't realize until recently that I could advocate for a community that I'm not a part of."Marks acknowledged the backlash the piece was likely to be met with, writing that "discussing the potential of a star's queerness before a formal declaration of identity feels, to some, too salacious and gossip-fueled to be worthy of discussion."Swift fans—known as Swifties—and others took to social media to criticize the piece and the Times for publishing it."Just a friendly reminder that speculating on someone else's sexuality is not an opinion, it is disrespectful and wrong," one fan wrote on X, formerly Twitter.Just a friendly reminder that speculating on someone else’s sexuality is not an opinion, it is disrespectful and wrong.