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Among all the Taylor Swift fans who met last week’s news of her engagement to Travis Kelce with ecstatic celebration, there is a small community who processed it in despair: the Gaylors.

A long-running sub-fandom, the Gaylors are convinced that Swift is a closeted lesbian who sends coded signals about her queer sexuality through her songs and promotional materials. On Tumblr and Reddit, they share theories that her many romantic relationships with men are red herrings, fabricated to distract from her secret relationships with women, most notably her onetime best friend Karlie Kloss.

One prominent subreddit, r/gaylorswift, has about 50,000 members. Last week, when

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