Which 1d members are gay

The carefree fun the band members have sometimes, has made many people misconstrued the hugs and goofing around as something more. Many people have spread rumors that Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson are gay and are a couple. Some have even said that the One Direction video blogs confirm it in a tacit way. Precisely, the boys with more links to gay rumors are best friends Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson.

Only time will prove them right or wrong. When I wake up in my 40s and think: Arrrggh. On TV that night they looked young, silly, chuffed — on the precipice of something huge, and with no clue at all. Their subsequent wonder-run five platinum albums, four world tours had its foundations in their ridiculous popularity in the States.

Keeping the fire going. I first met Styles in , around the time the lack of human connection was starting to bite. Management felt the boys were so exhausted that my minutes in their presence had to be strictly counted. Inside a circle of cripplingly hot lights, while someone ran the stopwatch, we interacted as humanly as we could. I remember how jaded the best singer in the group, Zayn Malik , seemed.

Malik was weeks away from quitting. Styles was watchful and quiet that day. By total chance, a week later, we were in the same London cafe and he tapped my shoulder.

He was having lunch with friends. It struck me as a quietly classy move. Styles was dry and funny, older than his years.

After lunch we said the usual things about keeping in touch, and followed each other on Twitter. He has around 50 million social media followers, and with that comes the ability to ripple the internet like somebody airing a bedsheet. You want your whole weight behind it. If you watch footage of him as a guest host on Saturday Night Live last month, Styles plunges in, fully inhabiting the silliness of every sketch. He approaches this interview in roughly the same spirit, not enjoying every question, fidgeting, pleading for clemency once or twice, but giving everything due consideration.

I bring up something Styles joked about earlier: the possibility of waking up in his 40s with deferred mental health problems. But whenever I feel I need it. He recently cried through Slave Play on Broadway. I sense in Styles, at 25, a pent-up undergraduate hunger, maybe a desire to make up for lost time.

Like therapy, like meditation. When I was in Los Angeles once, I heard about juice cleanses. I was just hungry. And bored. A tour could have been sponsored by the Dulux colour wheel: mustard tones in Sydney, shocking pink in Dallas. In May, as a co-host at the Met Gala in New York, he stepped out in a sheer blouse and a pearl earring. What men wear. Which brings us to One Direction and Styles and Tomlinson. If you combine the names "Harry" and "Louis," you get "Larry.

Styles and Tomlinson have, or at the least used to have, a very obvious friendship. One Direction's members have always enjoyed an easy physical intimacy, but fans decided soon after the band hit it big in that these two were special. Indeed, the internet is teeming with Larries — as Directioners who ship Larry often refer to themselves — who've spent years chronicling every microgesture and millisecond of the way Styles and Tomlinson interact with each other:.

In the band's early years, Styles spoke openly about the "Larry Stylinson" label and said that he and Tomlinson had talked about moving in together later in life due to their friendship. This tweet of endearment from Tomlinson to Styles is the second most retweeted post in Twitter history:. Yours sincerely, Louis. Some One Direction fans view this affection as an obvious sign of more than friendship. The anonymous blogger behind Sex at Oxbridge , a well-known tell-all blog run by a something student in London, found herself drawn to the Larry ship in , totally by chance and purely on the strength of Styles and Tomlinson's interactions with one another.

Speaking to Vox via email, the blog's author — known on the web only as SAO — said she was shocked when she realized they weren't actually a couple:. I saw their video for "Best Song Ever" and really liked the song, so it was only by chance that after the video ended on YouTube one of the suggested videos was about Larry Stylinson and when I watched it I was like, "Oh, cute - two of them are together. I didn't know that! THEN I realized that wasn't the case and basically that is when I began to look deeper into what was going on.

I basically absorbed all the information about Larry and One Direction humanly possible in a weekend, including blogs and videos with arguments that Larry wasn't real and at the end of it all I just looked at things that were unexplainable for both outcomes and there was a lot more that couldn't be explained if you accept that Larry is not real.

Because the Larry ship is so huge within the One Direction fandom, the list of exhaustive , detailed manifestos full of signs that Styles and Tomlinson are in love is virtually endless. The following video in particular has long been known as the Larry "bible" — a compilation of evidence of their love for each other that's so compelling that many fans believe you can't come away from it unconvinced:. Styles and Tomlinson's tattoos, in particular, have been analyzed and decoded and interpreted as a breathtakingly detailed map of a years-long secret romance.

Fans believe they often get matching tattoos or tattoos that symbolize the milestones of their relationship. For Jorie and Courtney, the tattoos were the smoking gun. Because it is one thing to have a best friend tattoo, but they have multiple matching romantic tattoos … the tattoos are definitely what got us both to not even question it.

Most, but not all, ships concern fictional characters, and in many parts of fandom there's an understanding that if you're shipping real people, you're only shipping the idea of them being in a relationship. Often, however, a ship that's built on the idea of real people getting together quickly spawns a subgroup of truthers who firmly believe the couple has already gotten together — that the idealized relationship is being conducted in secret in their real private lives.

There have been many iterations of these subgroups in various fandoms over the years. For example, fans of The Lord of the Rings have theorized and speculated about clandestine relationships between cast members; the same is true for the TV series Supernatural.

And it's a fairly common occurrence with ships involving touring bandmates and members of pop groups. To give credit where it's due, sometimes the conspirators turn out to be entirely correct, such as when Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson revealed they were dating in secret after working together on the set of Twilight.

The conspiracy theories put forth by these fandom subgroups employ nearly identical explanations for why we never hear about the theoretical relationship in public. They unfailingly involve the band's management, or the TV show's producers, or the agents in charge of managing the two people involved in the relationship. It's usually suggested that whoever controls the pairing's purse strings has embarked on a massive micromanagement conspiracy to prevent the couple from revealing their love to the world.

Their motivations usually involve a number of reasons based in reality — like a film studio or record label being reluctant to alienate fans by revealing that one of their idols is off the market. This is actually a common practice among Asian idol groups, many of which have strict no-dating clauses in performers' contracts.

Another commonly cited motivation for secrecy is the potential for homophobic backlash; if the ship isn't heteronormative, studios and labels may fret about alienating less open-minded fans. Because these shipping conspiracy theories tend to follow such similar patterns, the ways in which fans who subscribe to them respond to real-life events also wind up being very similar. If one or more members of a gay pairing has a girlfriend, fans will insist she's a beard — usually one who's been hired by the pairing's managers.

This belief is usually accompanied by the assumption that as soon as a major significant milestone like a movie release or a successful world tour has passed, the pairing will be free to come forth and declare their love — like an end-of-days prediction, but usually gayer. Fandom has dubbed the practice of forming elaborate theories and then fitting news events and occurrences into them "tinhatting," a name meant to evoke tinfoil conspiracist hats.

Like every other conspiracy group, fans who tinhat read and decode secret messages from the members of their ships to both each other and the public. Said fans are convinced that the couple is sending the messages as a way of affirming the love they can't express publicly. Usually tinhatters comprise just a small portion of an otherwise diverse fandom. But the belief that Larry Stylinson is real has become such a popular and dominating theory among One Direction fans that it often dwarfs other branches of the One Direction community.

For more than four years — that's at least as long as people have been quantifying Tumblr's tag usage and noting Twitter's frequently Larry-centric worldwide hashtag trends — the ship has been one of the largest elements of the One Direction fandom, which itself is one of the largest fandoms on the internet.

The result is that Larry fans have constructed an enormous echo chamber of belief around the Larry Stylinson "conspiracy. The scope of the Larry conspiracy theory is immense and features a number of regularly espoused beliefs, including the idea that One Direction's management company, Modest which Larries usually refer to insidiously as just "Management" , is heavily controlling Styles and Tomlinson's social media images and public appearances at all times.