Swift’s newish-found LGBTQ activism has made the singer a target of criticism since the track debuted in June, just in time for Pride Month. If Swift didn’t fire Nancy Pelosi out of a sparkly cannon, it’s likely because the bit was cut for time. The performance ended with a shout-out to the Equality Act, a federal bill that would ban anti-LGBTQ discrimination in housing and employment, in big, yellow CGI letters. Complete with stadium-sized rainbows and giant pinwheels, she performed the track - in which she entreats listeners to give homophobes the cold shoulder - flanked by drag queens formerly of “RuPaul‘s Drag Race.” In late August, Swift opened the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards with a performance of her LGBTQ allyship single “You Need to Calm Down” that was essentially activism via skywriter. Taylor Swift may be one of the defining singer-songwriters of her era, but subtle she is not.
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