Harry styles

I think queerbaiting can get really mucky so I personally don’t want to label anybody as doing that w/o truly knowing their sexuality. However, I think this whole thing of him being ambiguous and making these erroneous generalizations about queer experiences and cinematic portrayals and whatnot make me wonder how much authority someone like him has to speak on this stuff.
Whether he is a member of LGBTQ community or not, I personally feel like it isn’t his place to speak for queer people unless he more explicitly embraced that identity. Because it doesn’t seem like he’s at all in touch with the queer experience from the things he’s been saying, like his actions even in relation to queer ambiguity seem to be catering towards his majority straight white female audience than actual beneficial representation for gay men.
 
Demanding someone to come out of the closet and slap a label on themselves is the most hypocritical thing an lgbtq+ person can do.

Ive said this example like 10+ times on this thread:

Elton John, one of the most known, biggest gay icons in the world, didnt come out as gay until about 25 years into his career, he even married a woman, and denied being gay while dressed extremely flamboyant, waaay more than pretty much all out of the closet artists of the time.

By the logic some of you apply to Harry, Sir Elton John, was a queerbaiter for 25 years.


If Harry doesnt want to label himself as anything, its his right, and any lgbtq person here should know that
There's a difference between denying you're gay under plausible deniability when being openly gay was a death sentence on your career and made you associated with pedophiles and predators, which was the case when Elton was young, and implying that you ARE gay or bisexual when those things are seen as an interesting positive thing to be!

Harry Styles may or may not be queer but the fact that he wasn't able to say anything whatsoever about LGBTQ films when interviewed speaks volumes, no?