<aside> 👉 Real life legal events that could be relevant:

Taylor Swift sexual assault trial

Taylor Swift is excused from jury duty in Nashville

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<aside> 🌈 Relevant queer history of court cases/criminal charges against LGBTQ+ people:

Oscar Wilde

English lesbian criminality history:

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/law/lesbianism-and-the-criminal-law-england-and-wales

American lesbian criminality history:

“I cut off my nose just to spite my face” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lesbianism_in_the_United_States

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lesbianism_in_the_United_States

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<aside> 📜 Other notable court cases that Taylor could be referencing:

Marie Antoinette

http://thisisversaillesmadame.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-queens-trial-charges-against-marie.html?m=1

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Forgotten and Overlooked: Queer Trials of the Early Modern Period | In Custodia Legis

1. Guilty/Guilt/Blame

2. Innocent/Innocence

3. Proof/Evidence/Prove

4. Confess/Confession

5. Cage/bird cage/bars/jail/tame/prison

6. Crime/Bandits/Robbers/Illicit/Illegal/Rebel/Forbidden

7. Paper/Contracts/Writing/Speeches

8. “I Swear”/Swore/Swear

9. “If our love died young I can’t bear witness” - right where you left me

   

10. “And if this was an open-shut case I never would’ve known from the look on your face” - Willow

    

11. “Read my sentence out loud ‘cause I love this curse on our house” - The Alcott

Mentions in TTPD

• “And so I enter into evidence” - The Tortured Poets Department Announcement
• Fresh Out The Slammer
• Guilty As Sin…?