<aside> 💡 Touching or holding hands is not inherently queer, but it does speak to the queer experience in terms of being closeted. Holding hands is viewed as appropriate for female friends to do in a lot of Western society, so this would speak to their desire to express physical affection within the bounds of being viewed as platonic for onlookers.

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Debut

Fearless

• Today Was A Fairytale - You took me by the hand and you picked me up at six

Speak Now

Red

1989

• Blank Space - Grab your passport and my hand

• I Know Places - Just grab my hand and don't ever drop it, my love

• New Romantics - Please take my hand and please take me dancing and please leave me stranded it’s so romantic

• Blank Space performance at the AMAs 2014- Taylor holds a flaming rose and then her hand catches fire too. She specifically asked for a magician to invent a trick that meant this image could happen. Rose/Roses/Thorns

  

Taylor Swift's Flaming Rose act created by Lake Tahoe magician

Reputation

• Gorgeous - You should think about the consequence Of you touching my hand in a darkened room (Dark room, dark room)
• New Years Day - You squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi

Lover

• Lover: With every guitar string scar on my hand I take this magnetic force of a man