#lgbetty

[agreyrose]

So hang on, hang on, lemme make sure I’m getting this right. So she’s in a psych ward. In a wedding gown. And she takes the “miracle move on drug” the “forget him” pill of which the effects are temporary. Right, right. And then she’s set free, and immediately walks into a sterile office in a VICTORIAN MOURNING gown! And sits down to start working away on her typewriter. She’s writing, and she loves her muse, and it’s ruining her life. Okay. And then she and the muse are laying on the papers, in love. The pages of her work, her diary, her songs, THE FILES!! And they’re together, and the pages are flying around them, blocking them from the camera, okay? You still with me? She reaches for the muse and then she’s getting electric shock therapy?? With curly hair?? Okay. Okay. And again, loving the muse is ruining her life. And all the doctors, the people closest to her, run away scared when the electricity short circuits or whatever, and the muse is the only one who notices and stops it from killing her!!! The muse is in a (glass) phone booth, and Taylor is sitting right on top, but out of view from the muse. And they are in the middle of NOWHERE. The rust that grew between telephones??? And then we’re back in the office, and she’s pulling all the files out of the drawers!! In the mourning gown again!!! And she’s letting them out, ruining the sterility, and she’s freaking out, sobbing. And then she’s facing the camera, stone cold, letting the files swirl around her, now out in the open ON FIRE I MIGHT ADD. And back in the psych ward in the wedding dress, she breaks the glass to escape, to bolt?? And then, once the files are free, once the glass is broken, once the muse steps out of the glass!! Then she can touch the muse. Then she can touch the muse. Somebody give me an oxygen mask, holy shit

#hyperventilating #put me in a padded room #I think I’m losing it guys #ttpd #taylor swift #gaylor #glass closet #kaylor #fortnight #fortnight mv #maroon #lgbetty #friends of dorothea #the bolter #the tortured poets department #the anthology

[longstoryshort22]

when exile ends, she’ll be her first call

#taylor swift #the tortured poets department #fresh out the slammer #gaylor #kaylor #lgbetty

[lyricstoojesus]

REBIRTH 🦋🥹

#what is happening 😭 #look at her goooo #gaylor #friends of dorothea #lgbetty #gaylor swift

[heda-heather]

When Chely Wright came out she dropped the song “Like Me” and some of the lyrics to the song TTPD sure remind me a lot of it…

“Like Me”

“The Tortured Poets Department”

#kaylor #lgbetty #friends of dorothea

[throwbackgaylor]

april 25, 2019 | five years ago today

the me! butterfly mural by kelsey montague went up in nashville, tennessee

fans quickly noted the rainbows, daisies, and giraffe print included, as well as the striking resemblance the piece of art had to karlie kloss’s first outfit at the 2013 vsfs

#april 25 2019 #april 25 #2019 #me! #rainbows #karlie kloss #kaylor #daisies #gaylor throwbacks #gaylor #gaylor swift #lgbetty

[ccgg112]

imgonnagetyouback isn't straight

Lilac short skirt, the one that fits me like skin Did your research, you knew the price goin' in And I'll tell you one thing, honey I can tell when somebody still wants me, come clean Standin' at the bar like something's funny, bubbly Once you fix your face, I'm goin' in (Yeah)

Y'all the MUSE is the one wearing the lilac short skirt.

Basically Taylor is singing about her Muse showed up in a cute short skirt that Taylor would like (because they did their research). Taylor sees this and can tell the muse is still into her. Seeing this, Taylor is going in and getting her muse back.

(also the subtext of them sharing clothes... callback to Down Bad where the muse takes Taylor's clothes when they move out)

#lgbetty #gaylor #friends of dorothea

[thoughtroomba02]

THE TAYLOR ALISON SWIFT SHARED THIS ARTICLE TO HER STORY AND I AM SCREAMING

Excuse me?!!

This album is leading into her FILM MAKING?!!!

This is so good! It’s beautifully written and echoes so much of the Kaylorsphere thoughts!

Sidenote- I take the “man” commentary in context of them sticking to her lyrics literally for the sake of the article; but so many mentions of showing a closed life, expressing rage, CLAUSTROPHOBIA for gods sake

SHES BURNING IT ALL THE FUCK THE WAY DOWN YALL 🔥

Also… HER MODEL FRIENDS at the end sent me 🥲

*still screaming*

#gaylor #kaylor #lgbetty #friends of dorothea

[covetedbluecrew]

Does anyone else feel like they’re at the point in a horror movie where they have an inkling of what’s about to happen and they want to warn everyone but also are intrigued and can’t look away? 🫣

She’s about to pull off the biggest bait and switch. Everyone thinking Karma is a song about good karma coming to those who keep their side of the street clean and while it is for some, it’s also about how the general public, media, industry, and toxic fandom are getting their 🍑es handed to them…

/you flipped the script for the hell of it,

addicted to betrayal, but you’re relevant

you’re terrified to look down

cause if you dare, you’ll see the glare of everyone

you’ve burned just to get there

It’s coming back around/

/watch her put your opps on the throne,

got you wavin’ pretty white flags, feenin’ for that cash

now ya switchin’ up ya behavior, thinkin it’ll save ya/

Karma IS the guy on the Chiefs…

but not in the way everyone is led to believe.

The response is going to be HUGE.

#gaylor #friends of dorothea #lgbetty #karlie kloss #kaylor

[sophietv]

Everything you need to know : Failed Coming Out 2019

This is an answer to an anon I've received.

I typed it all and Tumblr said there was an error when I went and tried to published it. So I had to type it all again but lost the anon....

Here's the question: could you tell me more about her wanting to come out in 2019? sorry for asking again I'm new on the fandom!

Hi!

It will be my pleasure! This is such an important part of the Gaylor Lore to know and understand, especially when you are new in the fandom.

This theory has been confirmed, but we'll get to it in a minute.

Also, I'm so sorry because learning about what went down during Lover Era is a transformative experiece in the Gaylor fandom, in a very heartbreaking way.

So back in 2019 Taylor wanted to come out with the Lover Era.

June 30th during the New York City Pride wich was also the Stonewall's 50th anniversary, was supposed to be the day it happened.

This date might be familiar to you, because it's the date we learned at the same time as Taylor about her masters being sold to Scooter Braun.

So let's start at the begining of all of this. I won't go through ALL the details because my post will never end. But I'll cover the most important ones.

Right at the begining of the year, insiders were already talking about the fact that Taylor was planing to come out that year in podcasts and blind items.

Then in March 6th (Karlie and Taylor's anniversary)

Taylor does a post hinting at this new era. The very first lyrics we get (We got hints at ME back in February):

Daylight the song is about Karlie. But this line specifically means coming out.

Stepping into the daylight, and letting everyone see the real you.

(Also worth noting the lesbian filter)

Taylor started being really loud in the posts she made from now on. Flagging rainbow, lesbian and bi colors every chances she got.

And flagging Butterflies. Wich is very important thematically in Lover and coming out.

Side note on the Butterfly meaning:

Remembre how in reputation, snake was a really important theme?

And how in Lover it switched to butterflies?

More specifically it switched to Snakes transforming into butterflies?

There's a species of butterflies, that when they are in the chrysalid phase of their transformation into a butterfly, can look like a snake if they feel unsafe or attacked in order to protect themselves.

Then, after the average 13 days waiting period, they transforms into a beautiful butterfly.

Basically what Taylor was doing, protecting herself during reputation with that "personna" like she described.

And now, she was ready to finally transforms and have a new beginning.

Here's a description of what butterflies means:

A powerful beacon of growth and new beginnings, the butterfly signifies the power of transformation and the incredible feats we can achieve when we trust ourselves. We all have the ability to listen to our innate wisdom, guide ourselves through difficult times, and emerge better and stronger than before.

The ME! of it all:

Ok back into the Lover Era timeline!

So all those rainbow posts were leading up to the first single: ME!

Even Taylor Nation was pretty loud about this (number of rainbows = number of days leading to ME! release):

3 days before ME! release, Taylor performs at the Time 100 Gala and it's the first and only time she switched so very clearly pronouns in the song, multiple times:

She sings repeatedly : I want HER midnights

And she even seems to be getting more and more confortable as the song goes on and singing it louder and louder.

She also looks at the crowd while singing it.

Then she releases ME!

That was really the first part of her coming out.

And honnestly, she shouldn't have had to do more than this.

ME! was released on April 26th.

April 26th in 2019 was Lesbian Visibility Day.

And she captionned the release with: ME! Out Now!

A song about how she is unique as a Lover...

That is without mentioning the amount of rainbows everywhere in that MV as well as other references.

Worth noting that in 2019 Lil NasX came out in a MV with the rainbow tower and was annoyed that people didn't get it?

Taylor also probably deadass thought that she made it obvious:

May & June 2019 leading up to the big coming out:

Taylor continues to be as loud as she can.

She makes a very generous donation to GLAAD:

She sings ME! every chances she gets, while flagging the Lesbian Flag.

Taylor Nation also keeps on being really loud:

And releases a song and music video about homophobia and includes herself front and centered in the LGBTQ+ community (represented by the Trailer park, note how Ryan Reynolds, the only straight person in the MV is outside of this park, not in it like Taylor).

With a bi flag wig...

So yeah, she was trying really hard to make people see her.

Christian Siriano and the dress...

Back in April, we learned that Christian Siriano (a fashion designer) was working on a project for Taylor:

In June, he started teasing us about a mistery rainbow dress for an unnknown person:

It was heavily rumored that it would be the dress used by Taylor to come out at the end of Pride Month.

He kind of confirmed it with this post:

Then. June 30th.

The New York City Pride.

Taylor planned to come out at the event.

Employees on site, starts to be warned about this (you can find some comments online).

Taylor learns at the same time as us that her masters were sold to Scooter Braun.

She never makes it to Pride.

And Billy Porter ends up wearing the dress:

But. You can see that the dress was not meant to be worn by him. It doesn't fit well and the "nude" parts shows that it was meant to be worn by a white person.

In 2022, Christian confirmed it by dueting a TikTok talking specifically about this.

He deleted it right after but you can still find it on TikTok: (X)

Last minutes changes to Lover:

We now know that Taylor scrapped two songs from Lover: All Of The Girls You Loved Before and Need.

All Of The Girls is really loud and very clearly talks about a girl. Wich Taylor couldn't afford if she didn't want to/couldn't come out.

London Boy was actually written and added really last minute to the album.

Really interesting, because this is her loudest song about her loving boyfriend. Wich is a brilliant thing to do if you want to limit the public speculation after all the flagging that you did...

We know it was last minute, because Taylor sampled it on Cold War from Cautious Clay. (X)

He was called in the middle of the night and had to approve the sample right away.

Interesting fact: Cold War was featured in Book Smart, a movie Taylor promoted that year.

The song plays during a lesbian sex scene...

The intro to London Boy is actually Idris Elba in a interview where he was talking about a charity where he sold a date with him.

You know, people paid to date him...

The shift in the Lover Era:

After this, you can start to see a shift. Where it was colorful sequin and rainbows everywhere with colorful choreography.

She now dresses in black, is incredibly sad and sings mostly accousting song.

Like her BBC 1 performance or Lover In Paris:

Miss Americana:

Miss Americana was supposed to be her coming out documentary.

It has been confirmed by the director of the project that a lot of footage has been scrapped.

Also, the documentary was supposed to be called : Is It Cool That I Said All That?

This is why the documentary sometimes feels like something is missing and some parts are rushed.

They tried to switch her coming out approach by making it her political activism era.

Taylor confirms it in Anti-Hero MV:

She's pierced through the heart by The Archer.

Her queerness starts showing (she's bleeding lavender glitters).

She tries to cover it up by taking the table cloth.

Her wanting to cover it spoils the dinner for everyone and they leave her.

And while she sings : "Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism, Like some kind of congressman?"

She covers her queerness with a sticker : Vote For Me, For Everything

Confirming that the political activism during Lover Era and mostly Miss Americana was in fact really to cover the fact that she was already one foot out of the closet when they had to backtrack.

With this. Take a look at the closing scene of Miss Americana. When The Archer is playing in the background.

It's a montage of Taylor talking to someone and Taylor on the release night of Lover.

Look at what Taylor says...

Queerbaiting Backlash:

This might be the worse part in my opinion.

Since she was flagging so hard to come out.

Sadly, most people didn't get that that was exactly what she was trying to do.

And medias massively accused her of queerbaiting.

And using the queer community.

I'm still so mad and heartbroken about this....

reusing an old Twitter post...

Even queer fans...:

Frankly, speculating about her sexuality would have been way less damaging than this...

Songs about this event:

Taylor wrote a lot about this failed coming out.

The Archer, was her song about her anxiety about coming out. And begging her fans to stay.

I'm not gonna do a full lyrics analysis because this post is already a novel.

But read those lyrics with that in mind and you'll see how loud it is, and heartbreaking.

"I've got a hundred thrown out speeches I almost said to you"

Also. Worth noting that after Lover was released and she was not able to come out, she switched one lyric in that song.

Instead of "Combat, I'm ready for combat" singular (coming out was the combat she was ready to face)

She now sings every time "Combats, I'm ready for Combats", because coming out has turned into multiple battles that she has to face now...

Hoax:

Noticed how she says that all of her heroes die all alone in The Archer?

Her fear that if she comes out, all her fans would leave.

In Hoax she says: "You know the hero died so what's the point of keeping score movie for?"

Because with her Master Heist and everything, she was not able to be one of those heroes herself... The hero that she wanted to be died in that moment because she was unable to come out.

Edit: I messed up the lyrics. But it's even more telling. Because the movie she's talking about is Miss Americana, once she was unable to come out.

Evermore:

This song is litteraly her looking back at what happened and how she managed to process everything and ultimatly heal even though it felt at the start like she would never be able to.

"I've been down since July" - June 30th = failed coming out

"Motion capture, put me in a bad light" - Queerbaiting allegations. And Miss Americana being rebranded.

"Writting letters, adressed to the fire" - Her hundred thrown out speeches that she almost said.

"I rewind the tape, but all it does is pause, on the very moment all was lost" - June 30th...

"Sending signals, to be double crossed" - Her flagging strongly on her way to come out, only to be accused of queerbaiting.

Right Where You Left Me:

The restaurant is a metaphor for the closet.

"Sitting in a corner I haunt, cross legged in the dim light"

Doesn't really feel like a restaurant, but her hiding in the closet.

"I swear, you could hear a hairpin drop. Right when I felt the moment stopped"

Droping hairpins is giving hints that you are gay.

She was doing this very loudly right before she was kept from coming out.

"Dust collected on my pinned up hair"

Her hair are still pinned up because she was not able to come out. And dust collected over time that she spent forced in the closet.

Anti-Hero:

AH is really The Archer 2.0, and talks about the same fear of coming out and being abandonned.

The fact that she decided to depict herself as the Anti-Hero is both really interesting and heartbreaking.

Because to her, the hero was the version of herself that was able to come out...

Listen to Change in the perspective of being able to come out and change the face of the industry:

"Tonight we'll stand, get off our knees

Fight for what we've worked for all these years

And the battle was long, it's the fight of our lives

But we'll stand up champions tonight"

They were the Champions.

Side note: she sang this song at the ACMA in 2010, two weeks before Chely Wright's coming out.

When we know that she has knowed and worked with Chely since about 2007.

Then Taylor wrote Long Live one month after Chely Wright's coming out.

Listen to the song with the same perspective as Change now.

"You held your head like a hero, on a history book page"

Chely Wright came out in May 2010. Taylor wrote Long Live in June 2010.

Look at the parallels of both songs.

And now, look at her choice to name that song Anti-Hero after everything that hapenned....

She also wrote Long Story Short and The Great War about that event, but this is for another post and it's about how this event affected her relationship with Karlie.

How she thought she was betrayed but ultimately found out it was not the case.

And how they both made it through.

Ok, I'm exhausted lol.

Sorry for writting a novel.

But this is such an important part of Taylor's history and I really wanted to do it justice (hope I was able to).

If you are still reading...Thank you for your question!

#kaylor #gaylor #lsk #lgbetty #gaylor twitter #gaylor swift #gaylor theory #anon

[peaceatthelakes]

why aren’t more people talking about barbie doing the lesbian salute in a movie with the woman who created the lesbian salute

#barbie #gaylor #gaylor swift #kaylor #lgbetty #taylor swift #margot robbie #lesbian #wlw #sapphic

[falsecardigan]

The straightest Taylor Swift songs

1.Betty: Writing a song about yearning for a woman is such a hetrosexual thing to do.

2. Marron: Yes because most straight men have scarlet lips.

3.Wonderland: It’s a complete coincidence that Diana had her wonderland tattoo removed right after this song was released. 

4.The Man: Because most straight women wish they could brag about getting bitches and models.

5.Don’t Blame Me: I don’t know what you're talking about being in a straight relationship is totally falling from grace.

6.Hits Different: Because wanting to melt another girl's world is extremely straight.

7.Dress:  Wanting to date your best friend is such hetrosexual behavior right? Right?

8.Gorgeous: Because it makes total sense why it would be worse for a man to not have a girlfriend than to be single.

9.Now That We Don’t Talk: Because it’s completely logical for “Truth is I can’t pretend it’s platonic it’s just ended” to be written by a straight woman about a straight man.

10.Daylight: “I used to think love would be black and white but it’s golden.” is such a straight lyric to write.

11.I Know Places: Because every straight person has to worry about people finding out about their relationship with their partner.

12.End Game: Because her being in a relationship with a man no ones ever heard of would be a big conversation.

13.Illicit Affairs: Again having to hide a relationship is such hetrosexual behavior.

14.Question: Because a hetrosexual relationship is totally going against gender norms and is not at all considered suitable and right

15.Ours: Because most hetrosexual couples have to deal with people disapproving of their relationship.

16.How You Get The Girl: Because most straight women are extremely familiar with how to get the girl. 

17.Out Of The Woods: “The rest of the world was black and white but we were in screaming color” is such a straight lyric you guys.

18.All Of The Girls You Loved Before: Because “all of the girls you’ve loved before made you the one I’ve fallen for” makes total grammatical sense for it to be about a man.

19.Glitch: Because it’s so common for a straight relationship to start off as them supposed to be just friends.

20.The Very First Night: Because there is no reason as to why “they don’t know how much I miss you” breaks the whole flow of the song.

#taylor swift #gaylor swift #friends of dorothea #gaylor #lgbetty #swiftgron #kaylor #diana agron #karlie kloss #koincidences #candy swift

[badgalazzie]

„i don’t dress for women” MF WHAT IS IT THEN???

#gaylor #gaylor swift #lgbetty #she gave so many signs #taylor swift queer #i don’t dress for women #gaydar #gaylor proof #gaylors follow me #mine #boyfriend taylor #badgalazzie

[lyricstoojesus]

WE knew the whole time. 🤍

#gaylor swift #gaylor #friends of dorothea #lgbetty

[heda-heather]

there are so many songs about the failed coming out(s) and she’s so feral pissed and like girl so glad you wrote this and got it out I love you so much do you want a hug

#little old ME! ??? #the ME! references are everywhere #kaylor #lgbetty #friends of dorothea

[throwbackgaylor]

april 25, 2019 | five years ago today

taylor announced ‘ME!’ while wearing a pastel rainbow jumpsuit

karlie kloss later posted the sketch of this outfit for galentines day in 2020

#april 25 2019 #april 25 #2019 #rainbows #me! #karlie kloss #kaylor #gaylor throwbacks #gaylor #gaylor swift #lgbetty

[pinkorchidsinspring]

It’s giving:

#taylor swift #gay icons #the eras movie #premiere #gaylor swift #kaylor #gaylor #blondie #karlie kloss #tay tay #lgbetty #the eras tour