Love Quote by Siobhan Fahey

Fahey’s line lands like a shrug with a glittery edge: camp isn’t something she’s trying on, it’s the default setting. That matters, because “camp” is often treated as a costume in pop culture, a detachable aesthetic you can rent for a video shoot and return before press day. By calling it “naturally” hers, she’s staking out authenticity in a space that constantly questions who gets to use queer-coded style and who’s merely cashing in.

The second sentence does the real work. “I love the icons that gay people love” reads simple, but it’s a careful affiliation. She’s not claiming gay identity; she’s naming a shared canon. Icons are never just celebrities. They’re survival tools: larger-than-life women, melodrama, defiance, glamour as armor. To say you love those icons is to say you understand the emotional technology behind them: how exaggeration becomes refuge, how performance becomes truth.

Contextually, Fahey comes from a British pop tradition (new wave through glossy 80s excess) where camp was both coded language and mainstream currency. For artists like her, the gay audience wasn’t an afterthought; it was a tastemaker engine that shaped what “cool,” “beautiful,” and “dangerous” looked like onstage. The subtext is mutual recognition: she’s signaling respect for that lineage while also reminding the industry that camp is not a joke genre. It’s a sensibility with history, gatekeepers, and consequences.