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• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
• LIL NAS X TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS
• LIL NAS X JOK AND SAYS HE IS NO LONGER GAY AFTER LOSG AT GRAMMYS
• 'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
• LIL NAS X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE
• LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY
• HOW LIL NAS X IS REVOLUTNIZG HIP-HOP AS AN EMPOWERED GAY STAR

LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM

Lil Nas X is gettg praise for how he handled a nversatn about homosexualy wh edian Kev Hart. Before the rapper uld rpond, Hart – who stepped down om hostg the Osrs 2018 after homophobic tweets he’d ma years earlier rurfaced – terjected.

“He said he was gay, ” Hart said. “Homosexualy, gay people, ” Lil Nas said. Lil Nas posted a seri of tweets on the last day of Pri month, where he tend to share wh his followers that he intifi as gay.

A seri of homophobic tweets Hart ma between 2009 and 2011 drew public scty late last year. The mic ftival Lollapalooza dropped rapper DaBaby om s lp after he ma homophobic remarks. 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.

LIL NAS X TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS

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.

LIL NAS X JOK AND SAYS HE IS NO LONGER GAY AFTER LOSG AT GRAMMYS

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.

Lil Nas X me out as gay June 2019.

But the fact that a rap-aligned gay Black artist — let alone one who’s also such a untry fan that he vered Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” — uld pull this off atop the charts was startlg. Hip-hop artists like Young Thug sometim toyed wh wearg drs to illtrate their ee spirs, but Lil Nas X ma a not-obv choice to put gay love and sire at the center of his craft.

'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY

’ If a gay person is playg wh Satanic them, you n’t not thk of Kenh Anger and Satan as a liberator, ” said Malamet, a wrer and podster on the history of queer genre and horror films. But others were outraged by the gay, Grammy Award-wng pop star for offendg them wh the vio’s homoeroticism.

Homophobic backlash epted on social media – and didn’t stop there.

LIL NAS X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE

In the same week, rapper DaBaby was rerd sultg gay men and sharg misrmatn about HIV durg a performance at the mic ftival Rollg Loud.

And Boosie were quick to make a nnectn to the artist and the “Indtry Baby” vio, wh Boosie gog as far to e homophobic slurs and threateng to “beat [Lil Nas X’s] a**. “There’s still that general sentiment that this type of rapper, a gay, male rapper, isn’t reprentative of masculy, ” Oware said.

LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY

Lil Nas X is the first star of his kd – Black, gay, genre-bendg, Gen Z and award-wng. ” Through his chart-toppg songs, he explor trop – longg, dreams and dreams, pe – an explic manner, embracg his sir as a gay Black man. “I feel like that’s really important for reprentatn general, and this is gonna open more doors for one day when somebody says this, ’s like, ‘Oh, that person said that and I didn’t thk about , ’ ” Lil Nas X said earlier this year of his ambn to normalize gay sex, to vanquish mastream squeamishns about .

The clip for “Montero” – the full name nods to the 2007 gay g-of-age novel and s breathtakg 2017 film adaptatn – is chockablock wh referenc to the Bible. After the show, Lil Nas X snaps the vil’s neck and dons his horns – a lic subversn, a rollickg rebe of the hellfire that gay people are often promised: No weapon that is formed agast thee shall prosper, Lil Nas X seems to say, wh a wk. At night, he asks that God take away his gay thoughts.

I am now no longer gay! His ment uld be a reference to the fact that he won two Grammy Awards for the song "Old Town Road" before he had publicly e out as gay. )But last summer, the gay pop star found himself the middle of an ter storm.

HOW LIL NAS X IS REVOLUTNIZG HIP-HOP AS AN EMPOWERED GAY STAR

Those who dismiss him need to listen to beyond the album’s lyril excellence and mil range, “Montero” also draws to a profound medatn on Lil Nas X’s experienc as a Black gay man who grew up Christian the South.

This Christian background largely shaped Lil Nas X’s early stggle wh his gay inty; like many the L.

Muny who grew up relig, he at first saw beg gay as a tt om God.