'Old Town Road' rapper Lil Nas X appears to e out as gay

Contents:

• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
• LIL NAS X ADDRS GAY REVELATN BACKLASH
• 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
• LIL NAS X RELLS FAY'S HEARTBREAKG REACTN TO HIM COMG OUT AS GAY
• LIL NAS X ADMS HE TRIED TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY
• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”
• THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM
• 'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
• LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY

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.

LIL NAS X ADDRS GAY REVELATN BACKLASH

“Homosexualy, gay people, ” Lil Nas said.

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

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. Media ptn, Lil Nas X told BBC Breakfast he felt like he was "openg doors for more people"US rapper Lil Nas X has revealed he has experienced a backlash on social media sce postg cryptic hts on Twter that he is gay.

Not dog what I want to do, " he said he hoped his fans would "feel fortable" but admted homosexualy was "not really accepted eher the untry [or] hip-hop muni" Nas X has enjoyed huge succs wh his unty-rap crossover h Old Town Road, which topped the UK sgl chart song beme a viral h but was ntroversially removed om Billboard's untry chart bee did "not embrace enough elements of today's untry mic" rapper took to the stage at Glastonbury at the weekend to perform Old Town Road wh Miley Cys and her father Billy Ray. "Speakg on BBC Breakfast on Friday, Lil Nas X said he didn't "have anythg to hi" and had "kd of revealed, you know, that I am gay".

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

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.

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.

It's almost like he's sayg, homophob don't actually have that great of an imagatn, and I do.

LIL NAS X RELLS FAY'S HEARTBREAKG REACTN TO HIM COMG OUT AS GAY

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.

Or perhaps, another profound moment that to md uld be when the superstar me out as gay to his Christian parents durg Pri Month last year. Touchg on the sensive topic, the 21-year-old revealed his father “said some very Christian thgs, ” like that his homosexualy “uld be the vil temptg” him. Kev Wter/Getty Imag for iHeartMediaPublished on: Oct 1, 2019, 11:54 AM PDTLil Nas X recently sat down wh CBS This Morng’s Gayle Kg to talk about g out as gay earlier this year.

LIL NAS X ADMS HE TRIED TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY

‘Cse, of urse, somebody who’s listeng to me school right now, ’s like, ‘You gay ’e you’re listeng to him.

"After the "Old Town Road" rapper explaed that he grew up "to hate this s---, " reference to beg gay, edian Kev Hart terjected and asked Nas said that "if you're really om the hood, you know, " and add that he wanted to show that "the ol du wh the song on top of everythg" g out meant "don't really matter.

Lil Nas X got ndid about why he chose to e out as gay on an episo of HBO's "The Shop" — and his fans have taken to Twter to fend the talk show, which is executive produced by NBA superstar LeBron Jam, Lil Nas was joed by a few guts cludg actor and edian Kev Hart and the show's -creator Pl Rivera. "Homosexualy, gay people, " Lil Nas said. —Nicki_Nicki_Nicki (@All_NickiMaj) September 4, 2019—David (@Dreams_on_Paper) September 4, 2019—Commanr Slay (@natayiu) September 4, 2019Hart, who apologized for homophobic jok he ma durg his stand-ups earlier this year, ma a pot to tell Lil Nas that " no way, shape or form" he had to fend who he is (a part that wasn't the clip shared to Twter).

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

However, some people on Twter thought the edian me on too strong, pecially due to his prev homophobic jok. ”Related Vio:As a Black gay mician, Nas is well aware that he’s disptg the image most people attribute to succsful artists hip-hop.

“[In the dtry] ’s always been, ‘OK, you’re gay, this needs to be sanized. ’… Gay, but let’s not clu anythg sexual.

It’s like, ‘Be gay whout beg gay. There’s gog to be so many gay rappers. ”While Nas said he's found a fay on social media, he’s also experienced firsthand the bnt of homophobia onle.

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

’”Nowadays, he's proud of what people ll the “gay agenda” his work bee at the end of the day, “It’s jt acceptance of gay people.

"I know we promised to never e out publicly, I know we promised to never be ‘that’ type of gay person, I know we promised to die wh the secret, but this will open doors for many other queer people to simply exist, " he add that g out was difficult for him, and people acced him of "phg an agenda. He said he was raised to believe that homosexualy "is never gog to be OK, " and he was aaid he would alienate fans.

“I know the people who listen to this the most, and they’re not acceptg of homosexualy, ” he said at the, durg Pri Month, he changed his md. 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!

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

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.

LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY

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.