Taylor Swift is the fries to Katy Perry’s burger in new LGBTQ pride video

Taylor Swift managed to set fire to a retro mobile-home community, host a pride event and rally a score of LGBTQ icons for her “You Need to Calm Down� music video, which debuted Monday.

She sneaked in a slew of pop-culture references, a political call to action and brokered peace with former nemesis Katy Perry too.

Co-directed by Drew Kirsch and Swift, the confectionary video is a smorgasbord of rainbow-painted pride references that builds on Swift’s recent streak as an ally to the LGBTQ community. She name-checked GLAAD in last week’s lyric video, and now she has the endorsement of nearly 30 LGBTQ celebs and friends.

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The singer-songwriter is styled as a glamorous-yet-bored trailer-park denizen who sets fire to her Barbie-inspired home. Cat memorabilia and a needlepoint of Cher’s iconic quote “Mom, I am a rich man� burn alike. And that’s when the real party begins.

Swift struts out into her equality-championing community to throw a glam summer bash.

“Orange Is the New Black� star and transgender actress Laverne Cox appears on her front lawn to water her, um, flamingos. “Modern Family� star Jesse Tyler Ferguson kisses his husband, Justin Mikita, during a wedding ceremony officiated by Ciara. And “Queer Eye� star Tan France drinks from a teapot as Swift is later joined by his costars Jonathan Van Ness and Karamo Brown at an actual tea party.

Singer Adam Lambert gives Ellen DeGeneres a “Cruel Summer� tattoo and “Pose� star Bill Porter walks a runway that divides Swift and her sun-tanning compatriots from an angry brigade of truly tragic-looking protesters. They wield those signs she pointedly tears down in the anthem.

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There’s a Pop Queen Pageant full of drag pop stars that devolves into a food fight just after RuPaul presents the winner’s crown. That’s also when Perry makes her appearance dressed in her Met Gala hamburger get-up. She sees Swift, who is clad in a french-fry costume, across the way, and it’s like there was never any bad blood festering between them. They’re not cookies, but they’ve certainly committed to the junk-food theme.

Meanwhile, Swift’s pal Ryan Reynolds takes it all in while painting portraits à la Pageant of the Masters during the colorful affair.

Swift closes the video with a call-out to fans to show their pride by signing her petition for Senate support of the Equality Act to demand that “our laws truly treat all of our citizens equally� on a national level. And that’s just the latest in her political endeavors as her new album, �Lover,� due in August, will surely have more issues to blast.

Here’s how some of the video’s stars championed the collab:

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