Swifties all over the place rejoiced when, out of the blue this week, Taylor Swift introduced she was engaged to Travis Kelce.
After humble beginnings with a dream and a friendship bracelet, followers watched their romance blossom all through the Eras Tour.
The floral engagement, echoing imagery utilized in her Lover period, was a welcome announcement for many who had anticipated wedding ceremony bells within the couple’s future.
Nevertheless, because the remainder of the world celebrated, one area of interest nook of the Swiftie fandom spiralled.
Often called ‘gaylors’, this faction of followers is devoted to the conspiracy idea that Taylor, 35, is secretly queer and pretend courting Travis, 35.
Regardless of her very public courting historical past and her personal dismissals of any rumours, gaylors gained’t be satisfied in any other case.
Taylor’s allyship, significantly throughout her Lover album, was taken as affirmation, and since then, the speculation has grown like a weed throughout the fandom.
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Each lyric, picture, and interview is dissected on a subreddit, with gaylors concluding she’s utilizing forgotten queer signalling (that the songwriter is probably going unaware of).
Speculating on anybody’s sexuality is inappropriate — movie star or not — and may end up in public outing, as we sadly noticed with Heartstopper’s Package Connor.
Whereas the small faction often will get ignored by different Swifties, their weird response to what’s undeniably excellent news for Taylor has sparked ridicule on-line.
‘Marvel how all of the gaylors are doing,’ wrote musicstruggles1 on X earlier than following up with screenshots and including ‘not properly, it appears.’
One screenshot rapidly went viral, exhibiting a Reddit consumer dramatically claiming this information was ‘worse than their granddad dying’.
One other stated Taylor’s engagement gown was ‘giving cage or bars’, including there was ‘zero per cent likelihood these visuals weren’t rigorously deliberate out’.
This concept that the upcoming nuptials are a ‘jail’ for the Shake It Off hitmaker was repeated by different gaylors.
‘I’ve been sitting on this for a few hours now and I’m squarely within the efficiency artwork camp,’ shared another person.
‘To not be dramatic however my respiration has been near-panic assault ranges for 2 hours,’ stated one other gaylor in a screeshot posted by evermorgs.
They continued: ‘I do know all of the logical explanation why that is nice, whether or not she’s bi and actually loves him or is doing efficiency artwork or no matter. However ugh. It’s simply knocked me slightly right this moment.’
Kateawaycar posted a screenshot with the caption ‘the gaylors are shedding it’ which confirmed somebody insisting the engagement ring wasn’t from Travis in any respect.
The submit learn: ‘I imply, TECHNICALLY…. she didn’t say SHE was getting married. Simply that some health club instructor someplace was marrying an English instructor.
‘For all we all know, she simply wished an excuse to put on the precise wedding ceremony ring she received from her precise spouse.’
Many have satisfied themselves that it is a ‘lavender marriage’ constructed by their respective industries to guard their public personas.
‘How have gaylors come to the choice that travis is homosexual as properly? 😭’ Passengernessa wrote on X.
JMayer121 shared: ‘Travis being closeted is admittedly humorous as a result of it’s completely pointless to the Gaylor idea. Taylor apparently can’t come out, so she will get a beard. And likewise he simply occurs to be homosexual too, I assume.’
The announcement even prompted some to accuse Taylor of ‘queer-baiting’, a time period used when TV reveals trace {that a} character is homosexual however by no means act upon it.
The primary GaylorSwift subreddit has been locked down by admins after it was ‘infiltrated by hetlors’, a time period for Swifties outdoors of the conspiracy.
For probably the most half, followers congratulated Taylor and Travis — together with those that imagine she isn’t straight however nonetheless enthusiastic about males.
This obsession, largely coming from girls throughout the LGBTQ+ neighborhood, has not gone unnoticed by the So Excessive College hitmaker.
In her 1989 (Taylor’s Model) prologue, she wrote: ‘I swore off courting and determined to focus solely on myself, my music, my development. And my feminine friendships.
‘If I solely frolicked with my feminine associates, folks couldn’t sensationalise or sexualise that, proper? I’d be taught in a while, that individuals might and folks would.’
In her podcast interview with Travis, she additionally added that Easter eggs are by no means about her private life, a delicate push for followers of all sorts to cease analysing her lyrics in such obsessive depth.
Hopefully, for the Grammy winner’s sake, her engagement will lastly put an finish to this conspiracy idea and the drained hypothesis about her love life.
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