Straight Until Proven Guilty

Scarlett
7 min readApr 30, 2023

As more and more celebrities feel comfortable coming out to the public, people have had to find new and different ways to make their discomfort around it more acceptable. Rather than outwardly saying they do not want their favorite celebrities to end up being queer, they simply believe that it is unfair to speculate on the sexuality of others. Especially when that person happens to either be a woman they project onto or a man they find attractive. While this mindset ignores the long history of flagging done by closeted queer people, it also ignores the fact that by insisting that mentioning the…

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