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In her song Rainbow Dress, Taylor Swift describes the position of her purported "straight sex" in relationship to what Gayle Rubin terms the charmed circle of sexuality, wherein any sexual behavior outside an accepted range can only be immoral. When it comes to the vectors of heterosexual versus homosexual and vanilla versus kinky, her "just normal sex, nothing too weird" with a "regular hunk with a beard" is positioned inside this charmed circle. Yet the most glaring exception is that her sex is public--at the gay pride parade, no less. The hunk she desires has no name, no specific relation to her, and she makes no pretense of monogamous attachment. Her apparently ironic participation at the gay pride parade draws from Michael Warner's anti-identitarian critiques of tendencies that elevate sexual orientation above other maligned sexual practices and detach queerness from sex altogether. Swift's sexuality is clearly informed by queer perspectives: the erotic fixation on ball sweat evokes gay sadomasochist "pig" subcultures, and her claim that she hates her own vagina invites a multiplicity of pleasure possibilities that do not involve direct genital stimulation. The push and pull in her lyrics between straight nomenclature and queer imagery builds upon Eve Sedgwick's critiques of heterosexual-homosexual binarism in Epistemology of the Closet, and attuned listeners know that the question of queerness "hidden inside" cannot follow such an either-or formulation.

These lyrics are indeed troubling, but like the graphic subject matter of Jean Genet, they are meant to operate on a deeper level than the immediate revulsion they may provoke. It is more accurately an exploration of the death drive, reminiscent of other feminist performance artists such as Marina Abramović. "I hate all vaginas, even the one I got" refers to, in Lacanian terms, a conflict between the subject and the ego, which comes to its boiling point (or perhaps a cathartic resolution) through the entropic, self-shattering jouissance of straight sex at the gay pride parade.

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What about when she said "I wish there was straight pride", a right-wing talking point, was that queer of her? Hm? Was it a critique of the heterosexual-homosexual binarism?

In honor of her upcoming album, I want to take a moment to return to this post and dispell another common misconception about my favorite queer theorist and tortured poet. Taylor Swift's line about wishing there were a straight pride makes more sense in Hegelian terms, where Rainbow Dress presents a dialectic in which heterosexuality and homosexuality are defined in opposition to each other. What then would be the antithesis to straight sex at the gay pride parade? Gay sex at the straight pride parade. For Swift, straight parade parade is not a right wing talking point but an opportunity to sow chaos through gay sex. In Lee Edelman's words, “Queerness can never define an identity; it can only ever disturb one.” For more explorations of the negating power of queer sex without redemptive plots, I recommend her prior song Fuck Like a Mountain Rat.

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