As Taylor Swift swept her ERAS tour into Chicago, she opened with these words:
“First things first, Happy Pride Month, everyone!
On this tour, I get to look out into the most stunningly beautiful, brilliant crowds of people who are living their authentic lives, who are loving who they want to love, who are identifying how they identify, and allies who support them in that and celebrate them in that.
It’s like the most beautiful experience for me to look out into the crowds on this tour. I’m looking out tonight, I’m seeing so many incredible individuals who are living authentically and beautifully, and this is a safe space for you, this is a celebratory space for you.
And one of the things that makes me feel so prideful is getting to be with you and watching you interact with each other, being so loving, so thoughtful, so caring, and so being with you during Pride Month.
Getting to sing the words to ‘You Need to Calm Down,’ where there are lyrics like ‘can you not step on his gown’ or ‘shade never made anybody less gay.’
You guys are screaming those lyrics, in such solidarity, in such support of one another, and such acceptance and peace and safety.
I wish that every place was safe and beautiful for people in the LGBTQ community. I really wish that.
You can’t talk about Pride without talking about pain.
There have been so many harmful pieces of legislation that have put people in the LGBTQ and queer community at risk.
It’s painful for everyone, every ally, every loved one, every person in these communities. And that’s why I’m always posting. This is when the mid-terms are. These are when these important key primaries are.
Because we can support as much as we can during Pride month, but if we are not doing our research on these elected officials, are they advocates, are they allies? Are they protectors of equality?
Do I want to vote for them?
I love you guys so much.
Happy Pride Month!”
Yes, of course, because Tay-tay knows all about the gay lifestyle enough to tell me how to live my life. Just like the straight folks who are trying to tell me in the media the pronouns I should use and how I should behave as a gay person. It’s laughable.
You know, being bitter isn’t attractive. Having powerful allie’s, especially now in this hateful climate, is a blessing to our community. Your own homophobia doesn’t help anyone especially you.
Thank you for this wonderfulness on the week ending with the Supreme Court’s legalizing hate and discrimination.
She is performing in my hometown of Cincinnati OH and they are treating it like the second coming. The amount of $$$ and tourists she is bringing to this mid sized city is striking. Millions and millions in tourist dollars, rather as if the cincy red were in the world series.