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

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

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

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:. I am now no longer gay!

WA … LIL NAS X IS NOT 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.

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

Ok i’m gay aga.

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.

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

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.

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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

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.