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<aside> 🌈 Queer History: Renee Vivien, a poet who is considered the first lesbian to translate Sappho’s poetry, wrote a poem called Vers le Nord about seagulls: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Évocations_(Vivien)/Vers_le_Nord

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/47243206.pdf

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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life:

• Dianna Agron spoke about lesbian seagulls in a Glee interview. Female seagulls have been found to engage in same-sex chick rearing: https://medium.com/ostem-ucsd/how-lesbian-seagulls-changed-the-gay-rights-movement-dd88493da8e0
• Dianna Agron is also a big fan of Tom Waits and he had a song called “So It Goes” with the lyrics below, found through the incredible TikTok profile: https://www.tiktok.com/@soundsgayimin89?_t=8go4K0sKo6a&_r=1

https://genius.com/Tom-waits-so-it-goes-lyrics

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<aside> ➕ See also: Gay Animals

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Debut (October 24, 2006)

Fearless (November 11, 2008)

Speak Now (October 25, 2010)

Red (October 22, 2012)

1989 (October 27, 2014)

• 1989 Album Cover - polaroid of Taylor with seagulls sweater on

• Rolling Stone article - a seagull swims in her pool at Rhode Island

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-reinvention-of-taylor-swift-116925/amp/

Reputation (November 10, 2017)

Lover (August 23, 2019)