Lil Nas X Talked About His “Terrifyg” Comg Out Experience And The Mental Stra Of Beg Gay And Black

Contents:

• LIL NAS X RPOND TO SOMEONE WHO SAID HE'S NOT "REALLY GAY" AND I CHOKED ON MY SP
• LIL NAS X TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS
• WA … LIL NAS X IS NOT GAY?
• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
• THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM
• 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 RPOND TO SOMEONE WHO SAID HE'S NOT "REALLY GAY" AND I CHOKED ON MY SP

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

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:.

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.

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.

WA … LIL NAS X IS NOT GAY?

Ok i’m gay aga.

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

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

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

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

“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.

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. 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.