Taylor Swift slept here. Okay, not exactly—10 years ago, she owned a seven-bedroom estate in Hyannisport a couple of miles down the road from where we are now (and where, it is worth noting, she gallivanted through town with Glee star Dianna Agron, generating lore that lives on today). This site, a quaint historic Cape Cod compound overlooking Nantucket Sound, is known for hosting church groups. Today, it hosts believers of a different sort.
Welcome to Camp Gaylore, the first-ever IRL summit of pop theorists known as Gaylors. As you may already know, Gaylors hold some very strong convictions: (1) that Taylor Swift is queer, regardless of whatever problematic cis men she may date, and (2) that Taylor has been signaling her queerness for years through a series of calculated clues. Suffice it to say, this is a passionate subfandom, populated mostly by stans who are LGBTQ+ themselves. The shared belief is that, for whatever reason, Taylor is semi-closeted—a protective business move, perhaps, or maybe a simple desire for privacy. And if you haven't picked up on the gay frequencies in her lyrics, her wig choices, and her possible lesbian salutes? Maybe that's because they weren't meant for you. IYKYK.
Over the next two days, we'll be getting into all that and more with hours of presentations and deep-dive analyses. This is set to be a smallish, grassroots-y gathering—only 25 in-person campers are enrolled plus a dozen or so volunteers running the show. Meanwhile, about 300 remote Gaylors have signed up for streaming access to the learning sessions, building on the success of a virtual Gaylor summit that happened last year. |
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