🏳️‍🌈 Fri Sept 18 ‘20 👕

Not only did we get to see Harry today, he was wearing Louis’ clothes! Holy shit! Harry was spotted near his home in Hampstead, wearing a heather gray vintage sold-out 90s Umbro shirt, which we HAVE seen before - on Louis! Louis was wearing it on an instagram story that Eleanor posted two months ago. Upon some research, it was discovered that it is a sold out shirt that was originally available in grey, blue, and red, so this is definitely the same shirt. The one they share, of course, is the grey one. Awww, cuties! Harry was also wearing a black beanie and a mask, and (perhaps) a baby Yoda sticker on his phone (does that mean he knows who baby Yoda is now?). He looks really well rested, happy, and healthy.

And he has loads of reasons to be happy! Today, his team submitted Fine Line (the album) for a Grammy consideration, which featured in Billboard Magazine. It’s a contender for album of the year, which I absolutely think it deserves. I am, personally, so proud that, despite everything else he’s been through, he gets to stand up and sing HIS love songs, at the end of the day. And I really, really hope they get the recognition they deserve. Big up, Hazza, as Liam would say!

Also, Gigi is STILL NOT IN LABOR. She posted today from the farmhouse, including a piece of art she bought for Zayn - it’s a fake element from the periodic table that reads Vg (for video games, i think). And Niall posted a shirtless selfie at the piano, so here’s hoping he’s writing more songs!

I really wanted this to be a soft, happy day, and leave the news at that, however, here we go:

Did I say that people were going to be more happy with H’s role this time around? BOY WAS I WRONG! So for one, the movie IS called “My Policeman” and the role he would hypothetically be playing IS of the policeman, Tom. And so the discourse begins! ACAB, right? ABSOLUTELY. Discourse and I both ABSOLUTELY support the abolition of the police department. However, most of the issues I am seeing people take with Harry playing a policeman is the glorification of the police AND the 1950s. To the people saying that, I say: please go read this book. PLEASE. The POV in the book switches from Marion (the wife) to Patrick (the lover) - Tom never has a POV role. The other thing I think should ABSOLUTELY BE MENTIONED is that this book IS a condemnation of that society, including the police force where Tom works. He IS an outsider, which is why he is drawn to PATRICK who embraces his “otherness” (read: queerness).

The next *cough* terrible take *cough* that we saw about this movie is that Harry…should not be playing a gay character? There were TWO (equally terrible) approaches to this take, the first being that “straight men should not play gay characters”, therefore totally erasing H’s queer identity, which, maybe don’t do that. (Imagine living in 2020 and thinking that HARRY STYLES is still straight, cannot relate). The SECOND take was that HARRY, as a closeted man, should not be playing this closeted character because…of the impact it might have on Louis? I’m gonna be real honest, I don’t get this one. It has no basis in reality.

Here’s the thing, right: closeted people do not owe anyone a coming out, so attacking Harry for being closeted while playing a closeted character is, um, homophobic. Both of these men should be able to live and breathe freely, but only THEY get to decide what that means to them, and this assumption that people owe you their sexualities is based on the SAME thought process that concludes that straight is the norm. That is, again, homophobic. Just saying.