#and connotations how he actively works with them to craft an identity for himself andreaffirm himself

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#anons screaming about pink and flamboyancy not meaning gay #you are right they do not #but in combination with everything that harry does they are very deliberate performative signs #disregarding eg medicine and singing I mess around with him #disregarding the fact that he already in the past said things like female is not that important trait in a partner #etc etc etc #looking purely at his recent performances that's a deliberate adoption of identity markers which have traditionally been connotated with #being gay there's no way you can dodge that #and that includes pink and that includes the walk and that includes singing the gay anthem that I will survive is and that includes #the rainbow jumpsuit last week and that includes #even the gay cowboy stereotype #and not adopting these performative markers does not make anyone less gay (because people are comparing this with Louis) #but adopting and claiming them is a willful statement and dismissing it is just ignorant #genders and sexualities ARE performative and they are based on reiterations of precisely such signs and harry is making that literal #on that stage #and he's doing it almost hyperbolically breaking up the essentialisation and naturalization of heteronormative gender and heterosexuality #my studies literally revolve around this try I could talk about how deliberate what he's doing is and how he RELIES on those associations #and connotations how he actively works with them to craft an identity for himself andreaffirm himself