Re: New York Times faces growing outrage over op-ed suggesting Taylor Swift is GAY: Pro-LGBTQ megastar's associates and fans slam writer who previously questioned Harry Styles' sexuality

[Starve the NYT to death]

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> Anna Marks is a piece of shit and anybody with a brain knows it.

The New York Times is facing backlash from Taylor Swift's inner circle and
fans who claim their recent opinion piece questioning the popstar's
sexuality is 'sexist'.

Anna Marks's essay for The New York Times suggests that Taylor Swift could
be hiding her sexuality from the world because of her 'affinity for queer
identity.'

One of Swift's friends claimed that such an article would never be written
about a male artist - although Marks previously wrote a similar article
questioning Harry Styles's sexuality.

'This article wouldn’t have been allowed to be written about Shawn Mendes
or any male artist whose sexuality has been questioned by fans,' a source
close to the situation told CNN.

The New York Times is now the target of the wrath of Swifties, as well as
the singer's personal pals. 'I've learned that they are not pleased to say
the least,' Oliver Darcy told CNN of the drama.

Fans of the star - who describes herself as a straight LGBTQ ally and who
is in a relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce - are
going as far as to boycott The New York Times for the controversial
article.

'Just cancelled my subscription. This article is sexist and grossly
inappropriate,' an X user said.

'There is something deeply wrong with the New York Times publishing this
article speculating that Taylor Swift may be secretly queer—based on
absolutely nothing,' another user wrote. 'This is the kind of garbage that
belongs in the supermarket checkout next to the National Enquirer.'

Those close to the 34-year-old Grammy winner question the morality of
publishing the article.

'Because of her massive success, in this moment there is a Taylor-shaped
hole in people’s ethics,' a source close to the situation told CNN.

The contents of the article are based on conjecture, and the insider
questioned whether a double standard had been applied in allowing the op-
ed to be published.

Despite claims that the article wouldn't have been written about a male -
Anna Marks wrote an opinion piece in 2022 of a similar nature titled
'Harry Styles Walks a Fine Line' which was also published in The New York
Times.

The piece discussed how Styles 'used queerness to burnish his celebrity
without explicitly claiming to be queer.'

'There seems to be no boundary some journalists won’t cross when writing
about Taylor, regardless of how invasive, untrue, and inappropriate it is
— all under the protective veil of an "opinion piece,"' the person further
declared about Marks' Swift opinion piece.

The piece titled, 'Look What We Made Taylor Swift Do,' by on of the
paper's Opinion editors, looks at lyrics from the Lover artist's body of
work, which she believes could Sapphic love.

'Anyone considering the whole of Ms. Swift’s artistry — the way that her
brilliantly calculated celebrity mixes with her soul-baring art — can find
discrepancies between the story that underpins her celebrity and the one
captured by her songs.' the author wrote.

Marks cited examples from her appearance, including wearing hair colors
from the bisexual pride flag, or rainbow dresses.

She also hints a so-called Easter eggs in the lyrics, in which refer to
being in 'glass closets' in Willow or paying homage to lesbian artist
Louie Fuller during her Reputation tour.

'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,' the editor 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.'

Taylor has explained her pro-LGTBQ stance as advocacy, explaining to Vogue
in 2019, 'Rights are being stripped from basically everyone who isn’t a
straight white cisgender male,' she said at the time.

'I didn’t realize until recently that I could advocate for a community
that I’m not a part of.'

In the prologue to her 1989 (Taylor's Version) album, which was released
in October, the Out of the Woods singer, who is currently dating NFL star
Travis Kelce, wrote, she surrounded herself with female friends because
she was tired of the speculation about her romantic liaisons with men.

'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.'

Taylor Swift just uses pro-queer rhetoric to maximize earnings.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12934473/New-York-Times-
faces-outrage-Taylor-Swift-GAY-Harry-Styles-sexuality.html