This A+ list singer keeps putting those toes out of the closet.

I would even go so far, as to say with her latest visual, there might even be a whole foot out of the closet.

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Why Taylor Swift’s Fans Are Sending a Book of “Sapphic Poetry” Up the Amazon Charts

Who is bestselling lesbian poet June Bates, and why are people convinced she is Taylor Swift?

The short answer is: No one knows who she is, and people are convinced she is Taylor Swift because Taylor Swift fans love a conspiracy.

Why do people think June Bates is Taylor Swift?

As far as I can tell, it’s because on Oct. 18, Bates released her second book, which she cannily titled lavender haze.

But the album didn’t come out until Oct. 21! How did she know?!

Swift did announce the album’s final tracklist on Oct. 7, which is plenty of time for an ambitious poet to get a book to a rush printer and into Amazon’s distribution system.

So that’s all it took? The same title?

No. What really made this theory take off is Bates’ “Sapphic” content, which made the book catnip to the many, many Taylor Swift fans who have long combed all evidence for signs that Swift is not straight, as she identifies, but actually queer. (Slate’s Madison Malone Kircher previously unpacked in Slate this obsessive pattern-seeking by “Gaylors” in relation to the “teasing rhymes” in Swift’s 2021 track “The Very First Night.”) Indeed, even before Swift fans glommed onto the book, some had already taken the song’s title and its reference to a color that has historically been associated with gay people as evidence that, with Midnights, she was about to come out—until Swift explained that she learned from Mad Men that it was a phrase used in the 1950s to describe the feeling of being in love. – Source

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