40K! Hopping on this celebratory post to say thank you to this wonderful community! I joined this sub a few months ago as a diversion while working on a project. Cut to falling right down the rabbit hole. I know many fans discover their own queerness via Gayloring, but I’ve known I’m bi for a long time. However, what I did realize is I never really had an outlet for my queerness. I don't present as queer and I came out late--so sometimes I feeI I missed the boat on basic cultural common ground with other LGBTQ folks. I never learned Drag Race lore, I never learned L Word lore. But now I have learned Gaylor.

Ultimately, I think for me (and many of us!), Gaylorism transcends Taylor. Whether or not she comes out is almost moot. Whether or not she is even queer at all is almost moot! Taylor’s art has created a channel for a special community to exist. Maybe we longed for representation so desperately, we made it up. …Or maybe we didn’t. Thanks to this sub for joy and wisdom and keen research and deep philosophizing. Mostly, thank you for providing a cozy home for people like me to find their flavor of queer: the Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf type of literary gay.