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THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM
* pop x è gay *
1 song the untry, that he me out as gay. Now, 2021, he had achieved the unthkable, a feat only dreamed of by some of his peers who had gone om anonymy to the top of the charts — he ma another h song, and a brazenly gay one at that.
Maybe was the adrenale of the show, or the past two years of livg as an openly gay man, or some new wisdom unlocked by his recent birthday, settg him on a path of beg open to rejectn and growth. This is the difference between the Nas of “Old Town Road” and the one heard now, both mil approach and self-pictn: The new one is really, really gay. He wanted to be not jt a pop star but a visibly gay one, a figure built on that Gen Z tenncy to heighten a sexual inty to an exaggerated shtick, but one found on a genue pri and fort.
Out Magaze’s Popnography vers the latt trends on everythg LGBT, om polil fights, to the latt LGBT film, to the risg gay or lbian celebry, to velopments the trans muny, to the hottt new drag queens - fd out the what, where, why. and who of gay culture! * pop x è gay *
(When I first told him I was a lbian, he limped his wrist approval — an offensive gture meant to mock gay men, reappropriated to a nvivial meme.
) After years of hidg himself, there was now no mistakg : He was tryg to be, all at once, a hmaker, a huge pop star, an out gay man and a sexual beg.