Lil Nas X's song about gay sex earns 3 Grammy nomatns

Contents:

• LIL NAS X TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS
• 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 JOK AND SAYS HE IS NO LONGER GAY AFTER LOSG AT GRAMMYS
• LIL NAS X RPOND TO SOMEONE WHO SAID HE'S NOT "REALLY GAY" AND I CHOKED ON MY SP
• LIL NAS X RPONDS TO WOAH VICKY SAYG HE’S PRETENDG TO BE GAY
• LIL NAS X EXPLAS WHY HE DON’T FEEL RPECTED AS A GAY MAN IN THE MIC INDTRY
• LIL NAS X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE
• 'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
• LIL NAS X'S SONG ABOUT GAY SEX EARNS 3 GRAMMY NOMATNS
• THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM

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

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.

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

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. 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. But his latt clapback to someone who said he's not "really gay" serv s own trophy.

WA … LIL NAS X IS NOT GAY?

A Twter troll rpond, sayg that they liked the snippet and that Lil Nas X was the "only gay person" they n rpect. Another er chimed , tweetg, "This man a't really gay, " and Lil Nas X had the bt rponse to show jt how wrong they were.

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

In 2019, the 21-year-old me out as gay on the fal day of Pri Month a seri of tweets:.

The Geia native has ma history ever sce, beg the first openly gay black artist to w a Country Mic Award, and the first openly gay rap artist to be nomated top tegori at the Grammys:.

“I got a few iends that went to school wh [Nas X] and they said he was never gay.

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

“I feel like a’t nobody really gay, J name amen, ” she ntued. Days later, trolls acced him of not really beg gay, to which he rpond, “Do i have to give head at 3:45 am behd a mcdonalds chigo on a iday night durg the middle of pri month while streamg on twch and ig live for y’all to realize i am really a uke. ”Lil Nas X ntued to make jok about no longer beg gay when Saweetie revealed that Lil Nas is her celebry csh.

Later, he was cricized for tweetg about fdg the “gays Ai” soon after Uganda’s parliament passed anti-LGBTQ+ legislatn, which crimaliz homosexualy.

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

Lil Nas X has been very outspoken over the last two years, regardg his sexualy as a gay man. Many have cricized Nas X for beg so open about beg a gay man projects such as his mic vios, but he ntu to rema nonchalant and avoids what crics have to say.

In a new terview wh XXL, Nas X broke down how he don’t get rpected om his peers the mic dtry, for who he is, as a gay man. I am a gay artist.

Lil Nas X has opened up about the “drag and strag” prsur of beg a Black gay artist the mic dtry.

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

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. Lil Nas X went on to talk about his experience of g out as gay, which he said was “terrifyg.

And Lil Nas X went on to open up about the mental stra and “prsure” he feels his posn as a Black gay artist an dtry that has always had a typilly fixed fn of what rappers are “supposed” to be. This all jt weeks after Lil Nas X was faced wh a seri of anti-gay ments followg the release of his mic vio for “Indtry Baby, ” his latt sgle that featur rapper Jack Harlow. The mic vio — which se the 22-year-old prison, dancg naked the showers wh the other male mat — was met wh an overwhelmg amount of negative and anti-gay ments on Twter, wh some people accg him of “phg the gay agenda.

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

However, Lil Nas X was quick to h back — typil Lil Nas X fashn — at many of the anti-gay ments, notably llg one er out for viewg “femy as weakns” and for beg “aaid” of Black men beg perceived as “weak. You don’t like gay black men bee you are aaid of black men, as a whole, beg viewed as weak.

Lil Nas X appears to have teased the possibily of beg bisexual -- or even toyg wh the ia he isn't really gay at all...

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

The rapper tweeted Friday, "this gay s*** was fun at first. He seems to be sayg, at first glance, him beg gay was jt a ltle experiment, and that he wants to go back to beg straight. This gay sh was fun at first.

Jt ask Miley Cys, who sparked cricism 2 years ago when she said sucky men forced her to be gay...

He's still gay, nfirmg sexualy isn't a choice. The mic ftival Lollapalooza dropped rapper DaBaby om s lp after he ma homophobic remarks.

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

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. Did you get the sense that the fa of beg imperv to all the homophobia and hatred - that ever drops?

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

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.

Durg season 8 of Amerin Idol 2009, the "Whataya Want om Me" performer was outed and faced homophobic ments om viewers across the untry. "I thk he is fely like the gay pop star that is 2021 — he’s bold, he’s ntroversial, he’s phg boundari, " he said. It’s jt taken this long to have be a gay one.