"I bee 10% gayer every time I read a 'we get you’re gay' ment."
Contents:
- LIL NAS X AND JACK HARLOW GO TO ‘GAY PRISON’ FOR HOT, PK ‘INDTRY BABY’ VIO
- LIL NAS X ADDRS HOMOPHOBIC COMMENTS ABOUT “INDTRY BABY” VIO: ‘Y’ALL HATE GAY PEOPLE’
- IS LIL NAS X A GAY IN? HIS “INDTRY BABY” MIC VIO PROV
- HOW LIL NAS X IS REVOLUTNIZG HIP-HOP AS AN EMPOWERED GAY STAR
LIL NAS X AND JACK HARLOW GO TO ‘GAY PRISON’ FOR HOT, PK ‘INDTRY BABY’ VIO
As Lil Nas X be bolr his lyrics and creative visn, he transcends nf of "The Gay Rapper" stereotype, rvg out space as an unapologetic msiah for today's queer generatn. * industry baby gay *
“[I] lerally went to hell and twerked on satan but gay prison is where you draw the le?! Lil Nas X Do It Aga And Go Even Further Wh 'INDUSTRY BABY': #NowPlayg As Lil Nas X be bolr his lyrics and creative visn, he transcends nf of "The Gay Rapper" stereotype, rvg out space as an unapologetic msiah for today's queer generatn.
LIL NAS X ADDRS HOMOPHOBIC COMMENTS ABOUT “INDTRY BABY” VIO: ‘Y’ALL HATE GAY PEOPLE’
* industry baby gay *
Lil Nas X is unprecented: he emerged om the pths of stan Twter to take over the pop charts, all the while growg as an unabashedly gay rapper. The song is one of his bt, but s real power om the acpanyg, highly-stylized vio where Lil Nas X breaks out of a prison populated wh Black gay men (and, for an unspecified reason, Jack Harlow an unseemly role as the Straight Whe Savr who livers a verse that is mid at bt and appropriate at worst).
Bee of stctural vlence herent this untry's rceral system, posng the stutn as a gay utopia is a risky choice. However, when nsirg Lil Nas X's reer path, Montero State Prison is a settg that mirrors realy; as he is repeatedly cricized by evangelil Christians and Twter trolls alike for elevatg gay reprentatn — particularly for the prison's namake, his last sgle "MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)" — 's unrstandable Lil Nas X would nsir homophobia a prison, clstrophobic and imposg, pecially the mic dtry. As he be bolr his lyrics and creative visn, Lil Nas X begs to transcend nf of "The Gay Rapper" stereotype, rvg out space for himself as an unapologetic msiah for today's young, queer generatn.
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IS LIL NAS X A GAY IN? HIS “INDTRY BABY” MIC VIO PROV
Lil Nas X has proven once aga that he is the gay in. H the showers as we dive to the reactns to “Indtry Baby”. * industry baby gay *
And so he's no stranger to the variety of out that queer people are often told by homophob or, you know, like, quote, unquote, "people who really re" about what might happen to him - whether he go to hell, whether he'll go to jail or he'll do this, that and the third. It's almost like he's sayg, homophob don't actually have that great of an imagatn, and I do. Did you get the sense that the fa of beg imperv to all the homophobia and hatred - that ever drops?
You seem to only rpect gay artists when the gay part is tucked away.
- where he is a gay pop star who's e out at the height of his fame or - you know, for all we know, he uld somehow get even bigger. We have so many gay pop stars but so few openly gay pop stars and even fewer gay pop stars who are explicly sexual. But what Lil Nas X do is he mak gay sex jt as part of his entire persona as a, you know, name lerally any straight pop star ever.
HOW LIL NAS X IS REVOLUTNIZG HIP-HOP AS AN EMPOWERED GAY STAR
"who's gog to make dly funny tweets about beg gay while i'm away.