Lil Nas X Temporarily Decis He's Not Gay After Losg at the Grammys

Contents:

• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
• WA … LIL NAS X IS NOT GAY?
• LIL NAS X TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS
• 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 EXPLAS WHY HE DON’T FEEL RPECTED AS A GAY MAN IN THE MIC INDTRY
• THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM

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. After g out as gay durg the height of his “Old Town Road” succs, Lil Nas X is now revealg he actually don’t love the fellas.

WA … LIL NAS X IS NOT GAY?

The “Pani” rapper reveal the prank on Twter statg that he claimed he was gay jt to have an epic April fools joke for today. I was never gay.

He didn’t choose the gay life, the gay life chose him. Ok i’m gay aga. 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. Anti-gay bigotry is on the fensive hip-hop right superstar Lil Nas X, who me out as gay 2019, has been sparrg wh people who exprs many of the logil nsistenci that unrlie homophobia.

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

On Instagram, DaBaby then ma thgs worse by explag that he had been tryg to show that his gay fans “got class, ” unlike the “nasty … junki on the street” who get AIDS.

He sists, too, that he’s not homophobic.

But the reactns he’s kicked up, and some other recent velopments hip-hop, have outed bigots and unrled the gnive dissonance they live ’s speech did not mentn Lil Nas X, hip-hop’s new, openly gay superstar.

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

The young artist me out as gay 2019 when his sgle “Old Town Road” was on s way to beg the longt-nng No.

LIL NAS X EXPLAS WHY HE DON’T FEEL RPECTED AS A GAY MAN IN THE MIC INDTRY

But Lil Nas X has clearly set out to tt the bounds of such progrs, and we’re now seeg the How ‘Old Town Road’ transforms the listenerMsage-lan art such as the “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” mic vio is part of that ttg: It playfully dramatiz the way that gay people have to wrtle wh beg told they’re damned to hell.

There, he spars wh people who exprs many of the logil nsistenci that unrlie homophobia.

THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM

He’s playfully shot down the notns that queerns is a morn Wtern ventn; that he promot looser sexual ethics than straight rappers do; that he acts gay for fame; that prev generatns of queer stars have stayed closeted bee of tastefulns rather than bee of reprsn; that his art turns viewers away om heterosexualy; and that femy unrm male strength. Here was classic false equivalence: Gay gyratns onstage might annoy some viewers, but they’re different om pog the exact rhetoric that ntribut to the AIDS crisis (not to mentn to the problems of prsn and suici the queer muny). Lil Nas X has opened up about the “drag and strag” prsur of beg a Black gay artist the mic dtry.

In a new terview wh Out magaze, Lil Nas X — whose real name is Montero — talked about his difficult upbrgg the South as a young gay Black man and how this has e to shape his sense of inty as he's matured. “Growg up the Atlanta area, I [saw] a lot of microaggrsns towards homosexualy, ” he told Tre’vell Anrson.