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taylor gave a pride speech before playing champagne problems and briefly spoke about what makes her feel prideful
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june 2, 2023 | one year ago
taylor gave a pride speech before playing champagne problems and briefly spoke about what makes her feel prideful
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A few quotes from Taylor about love that I thought were worth sharing…
Taylor on Love Story, Billboard article (09/12/2008) —
[Love Story is] a love that you’ve got to hide because for whatever reason it wouldn’t go over well. I spun it in the direction of ‘Romeo and Juliet’; our parents are fighting. I relate to it more as a love that you cannot really elaborate on – a love that maybe society wouldn’t accept [or] maybe your friends wouldn’t accept.
Reputation Tour, Chicago Pride Speech —
I think a lot about how it’s very brave to be vulnerable about your feelings in any sense, in any situation, but it’s even more brave to be honest about your feelings and who you love when you know that it might be met with adversity from society.
2021 Pride Month tweet —
I want to take a moment to thank the courageous activists, advocates and allies for their dedication to fighting against discrimination and hatred. And as always, today I’m sending my respect and love to those bravely living out their truth, even when the world we live in still makes that hard to do. Who you love and how you identify shouldn’t put you in danger, leave you vulnerable or hold you back in life.
Taylor Swift on Lavender Haze —
And I guess theoretically when you’re in the lavender haze, you’ll do anything to stay there, and not let people bring you down off of that cloud and I think a lot of people have to deal with this now, not just like quote unquote “public figures” because we live in the era of social media and if the world finds out that you’re in love with somebody they’re gonna weigh in on it, like my relationship for 6 years we’ve had to dodge weird rumors, tabloid stuff and we just ignore it and so this song is sort of about the act of ignoring that stuff to protect the real stuff.
I think I appreciate that she communicates directly to fans during shows the way she does (about many things, but pride month currently). It makes sense to me that she wouldn’t want to post much on social media, and a valid criticism of 2020 activism generally was how it became ~trendy~ to post about everything. I ran a social Justice social media page for a nonprofit at that time and it became very meaningless and soul sucking, especially when I was able to start living my activism in different ways in my real life and quit working for the nonprofit industrial complex. I haven’t been on anything other than tumblr in basically 2 years, and my activism is much different than it was before. Not that she’s necessarily avoiding posting for the same reasons as me, but I don’t think it’s okay to expect celebrities to put their every belief down in writing for public dissection in an increasingly hostile virtual world. And she should be able to choose how she uses social media without it being tied inherently to her politics. She has reach, and she is using that power to talk about it on stage to sold out stadium shows. And it seems likely that news/magazines will cover the gist of what she says. I also think there’s something to be said about her and her crowds safety. Posting something that can be instantly shared with anyone and that would enrage homophobic and transphobic potential mass shooters prior to announcing where her and 70k of her closest friends will be every night for months also seems like a fair safety concern. It’s just complicated!
Today marks 13 days until pride month begins and I thought it would be nice to go back to the pride speeches Taylor has made because they are really important and don’t get enough credit and are looked upon as just an ally making a nice speech. In her reputation pride speech she was honestly so vulnerable and crystal clear and for the first time being so blunt about it. It definitely is delicate for her. Read between the lines. She emphasized her songs being confessional... do you see right through her yet?
“It’s wonderful to be spending this particular evening with you because today is the first day of pride month! And you know, a lot of my songs are about love and I just feel like who you love, how you identify, you should be able to live your life the way you want to live your life and you should have the same exact rights as everybody else. So I started this petition and you can find the link on my Instagram, its for the Equality Act which basically just says that we want to send a message to our government that we believe that everybody should be treated fairly in this country. So if you sign it, it would really mean a lot to me because I think we need to stick up for each other and we need to stand together. Don’t you?”
“I’ve been writing songs since I was 12 and my songwriting has a lot of the time been called confessional songwriting, which I think is really accurate and the reason that my songwriting has stayed confessional and stayed about my real life and my real feelings even when my life has gotten bigger in a sense, more written about, more speculated upon, I still kept writing songs about my actual life and that’s because you guys seem to care about my actual life. And I appreciate that so much. And in my opinion, I happen to feel that being vulnerable and being honest about how you feel and saying how you feel is really brave and uh, you guys June is pride month and I think a lot about how it’s very brave to be vulnerable about you feelings in any sense, in any situation, but it’s even more brave to be honest about your feelings and who you love when you know that that might be met with adversity from society. And so, this month and every month I want to send out my love and respect to everybody who has been brave enough to be honest about how they feel, to live their lives as they are, as they feel they should be, as they identify... and this is a month where I think we need to celebrate how far we’ve come, I think we also need to acknowledge how far we still have left to go and I want to send my love and respect out to everyone who in their journey in their life hasn’t yet felt comfortable enough to come out and may you do that in your own time. And may we end up in a world where everyone can live and love equally and no has to be afraid to be vulnerable and say how they feel. Because when it comes to feelings and it comes to love and searching for someone to spend your whole life with its all just really really delicate.”
“This is a month where I think we need to celebrate how far we've come, but I think we also need to acknowledge how far we have left to go. I want to send my love and respect to everybody who hasn't felt comfortable enough to come out yet, and may you do that on your own time and may we end up with a world where everyone can live and love equally and no one has to be afraid to say how they feel.”
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"I think a lot about how it is very brave to be vulnerable about your feelings in that sense and in that situation, but it is even more brave to be honest about your feelings about who you love when you know that might be met with adversity from society."
- taylor swift 🌈
God, rewatching that Pride speech video just took me back to last year, watching it happen live and the moment I realized that she was talking to and about us, her LGBT Swifties, honoring us in a stadium of thousands and I still just get chills ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜