#actually sit with and deliberately cater to gay culture for example
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i wish i could take the time to parse through my taylor swift is/isn't a gay icon thoughts on here but i fear people on this website don't know how to behave
#like she isn't a gay icon. but she is a lesbian icon? but like in different ways than gay icons have historically been gay icons#basically what i'm trying to say is that her status as a lesbian icon has literally nothing to do with her interactions with the lesbian#community. like i don't feel particularly revered or nurtured by her in the way someone like gaga has taken the time to#actually sit with and deliberately cater to gay culture for example#like it's different.#and almost entirely fandom-led#whether taylor is actually queer is also irrelevant to this#am i making any sense?#like okay i think you could argue she did a little bit of it in 2019 but we all know how that felt/came across#she's better at being a gay icon when she's explicitly not including the queer community in her work or acknowledging them in any way#because it's literally not of her own volition#and i'm honestly not convinced it's an aspect of her art or fanbase she considers#sometimes it feels like it actively makes her uncomfortable#and yet she really has become entrenched in modern day lesbian pop culture iconography in these last few years#anyway this isn't me Saying Anything. i'm just thinking about it#vi is typing...
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