Lil Nas X was asked to expla why he me out as gay. Kev Hart terpted him. - Vox

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• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”
• 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 RPONDS TO WOAH VICKY SAYG HE’S PRETENDG TO BE GAY
• LIL NAS X HS BACK AT PEOPLE ACCG HIM OF PRETENDG TO BE GAY FOR SUCCS
• LIL NAS X TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS
• LIL NAS X AND JACK HARLOW GO TO ‘GAY PRISON’ FOR HOT, PK ‘INDTRY BABY’ VIO
• LIL NAS X'S SONG ABOUT GAY SEX EARNS 3 GRAMMY NOMATNS
• LIL NAS X RPOND TO SOMEONE WHO SAID HE'S NOT "REALLY GAY" AND I CHOKED ON MY SP

LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”

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

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.

LIL NAS X RPONDS TO WOAH VICKY SAYG HE’S PRETENDG TO BE GAY

- 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. Why do many thk LNX may not be gay?

LIL NAS X HS BACK AT PEOPLE ACCG HIM OF PRETENDG TO BE GAY FOR SUCCS

Bee many thk that Lil nasx is not gay, and that everythg he is dog is part of a ncept, but that realy he is not gay.

Many other artists are blatantly straight such as 1D boys, but their fans believe they are gay (I'm talkg about Larry fans) and hi when this is blatantly not te. They want them to be gay at all sts. Then when a gay artist who out early his reer, everyone thks 's not te that he homosexualy as a ncept.

I have read some say that he is too mascule to be gay (as if masculy is an ditor of heterosexualy). Is Lil Nas x really gay (I thk so, bee I don't thk lil nas x as much as he is a troll geni, he n play on such a lite subject)?

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

Lil Nas X has explaed why he cid to e out publicly as gay — durg a nversatn that end up beg more about Kev Hart, the edian who terpted him. “He said he was gay!

Lil Nas X ntued by sayg he me out bee was important for him to bat anti-gay sentiment society. “I’m growg up to hate this sh, ” Lil Nas X said, referrg to beg gay.

“If you’re really om the hood, you know, ” Lil Nas X said to Hart, implyg that Hart should know about homophobia and anti-LGBTQ sentiments the black muny.

LIL NAS X AND JACK HARLOW GO TO ‘GAY PRISON’ FOR HOT, PK ‘INDTRY BABY’ VIO

His “really om the hood” clapback to Hart was the clost any of the guts on the show got to acknowledgg that Hart has ma homophobic ments and jok the past. Hart was famoly picked to host the 2019 Osrs and then qu amid backlash after he ially refed to apologize for homophobic jok and ments he’d ma the past, sayg he'd already apologized for them and changed his ways.

Though he eventually said he was sorry for any hurt he’d ed, he did so only after repeatedly referrg to those who were upset about his old jok and ments (Hart had ed gay slurs on social media and said that if his son would e out as gay, he would break a dollhoe on his head) as trolls and haters. It's uniquely puzzlg that Hart was part of a natnal nversatn about homophobic ments that st him an Osrs hostg gig, only to terpt a gay person’s answer about g out while seemg to suggt he uldn't picture the homophobia that person might have faced. Lil Nas X was lerally referrg to homophobia he grew up wh and the importance of reprentatn, and here was Hart, whose homophobic remarks and dignant apologi for said remarks ma natnal news, appearg to feign naiveté.

Hart, along wh others the discsn, went on to say that beg gay shouldn’t be an issue 2019.

LIL NAS X'S SONG ABOUT GAY SEX EARNS 3 GRAMMY NOMATNS

“What I wanna say to Lil Nas X is that no way shape or form should you have to fend [yourself] … when you have a voice and simply say ‘this’ [beg gay, ] there is no back-and-forth about what ‘this’ is.

"He said he was gay.

Addnally, the rt of the male athlet and celebri did not addrs their own experienc wh homophobic sentiments sports or pop culture. Lil Nas X has opened up about the “drag and strag” prsur of beg a Black gay artist the mic dtry.

LIL NAS X RPOND TO SOMEONE WHO SAID HE'S NOT "REALLY GAY" AND I CHOKED ON MY SP

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.