Over the summer at the Belvedere, a luxury clothing-optional hotel on Fire Island, I met a twink and budding drag queen named Nigel who worshiped Swift. Taylor Swift Proves That Pop Music Needs Her With Her New Album 1989: - Tynan October 28, 2014īut the passionate gays who helped push Azealia Banks's debut album to number three on the iTunes chart haven't much like Swift-though that may be changing. This week on gay Twitter and Facebook, Swift earned praise from that rarely praiseful, normally salty sphere of social media.
Swift's transition from mainstream country star to would-be pop diva has led many pop fans and gay men to call Swift a term typically reserved for Spears and Madonna, the acknowledged queen of pop.
