āwhy do you care so much about harryās sexuality? it doesnāt matter if heās gay or bi or straight.ā
i care because the entertainment industry is ruthless and homophobic. and we know for a fact that young people new to the industry ARE exploited. we know how much pressure queer people go through to stay in the spotlight, not to mention someone who started off as a boybander in 2010.
i care because i saw sixteen year old harry scrunching his face and answering āfreedomā to the question āwhat do you wish for that money canāt buy?ā
i care because him not removing a part of his red nailpolish got him ridiculed and laughed at.
i care because the first tattoo he got was a black outline of a five pointed star.
i care because he, at eighteen, got āi canāt changeā tattooed on his body.Ā i canāt change.Ā and a birdcage. and a hanger.Ā
when closeted people do come out, they always talk about how they gave signs to fans. harry has never made attempts to hide his queerness. from unsubtle comments about being attracted to men, to actually identifying with the lgbtq community. not to mention the general awareness he brings to the concept of being openly queer, and the donations he does/has done in the past, the fans he helps come out at his shows.
i care because a seventeen year old harry got called a f*ggot to his face. made fun of for simply having a bit of nail varnish. mocked for ādatingā multiple leggy models when he was merely photographed by their side. mocked for kisses he physically couldnāt put effort inābecause he could not be attracted to those women. even now. fetishised for standing close to another good looking woman.
he has made every attempt to identify with the queer community. supporting queer artists. waving pride flags. donating to lgbt charities. referencing queer icons. and just because he has to play the same old game of plausible deniability and showmance to keep on existing in the industry, to keep on maintaining the image of Harry StylesTM, doesnāt mean he is the man the media paints him out to be.
harry, who has always been kind and supportive of people heās close to, who talks about āloveā like itās a sacred topic for him, going through different women every year? never taking his āgirlfriendsā to important events, never mentioning them by name, never praising them, the women also never mentioning him, the stiff physical chemistry, the ācandidā hd pictures? āprivateā outings but walking in busy streets where they can be identified and photographed by fans?
do you not see the pattern? never mentioning them at all? letting the pap pics do all the work? do you think that all the signalling he has done over the years is just queerbaiting? that he chose to play the role of a closeted gay man in a movie where he had everyoneās lines memorised, and put so much effort into said roleā for what? marketing? which didnāt even happen, by the way. he received lukewarm responses, at best.
iām not saying he needs us to let him out of his closet. we donāt even know why he is in the closet in the first place. or what exactly he identifies as. or why he hasnāt come out yet. itās his life. his reason. but acknowledgement is important. and grown people believing in blatant lies is an odd thing to see. publicity stunts are not a new concept. fake relationships exist. closeting is a real thing. even though he is in a glass closet, he is still in aĀ closet. the fact that you canāt see the patterns is disappointing.
This is the same Harry who liked a picture of a vagina at 16, then deleted it, posted āso, the weather,ā and spammed cat photos. The same Harry who got caught whispering āthink how much pussy youāre gonna getā on live TV at 16. The same Harry who said āI like girlsā when asked the best part of being in a boy band. Pretending heās never shown interest in women erases a whole part of who heās always been. Ignoring all that because it doesnāt fit your theory isnāt activism.
Have you ever stopped to think youāre erasing part of Harryās personality? That being so convinced he must be gay and closeted makes you filter out anything that contradicts that idea? Youāre not decoding signs, youāre filtering reality to fit a conclusion you already decided on.
