Lil Nas X Com Out as Gay | Pchfork

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• 'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
• LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY WORLD PRI POST: 'I THOUGHT I MA IT OBV'
• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
• LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY
• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”
• LIL NAS X TALKS ABOUT BACKLASH AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• LIL NAS X RELLS FAY'S HEARTBREAKG REACTN TO HIM COMG OUT AS GAY

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

Lil Nas X end pri month by g 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 COM OUT AS GAY WORLD PRI POST: 'I THOUGHT I MA IT OBV'

A seri of homophobic tweets Hart ma between 2009 and 2011 drew public scty late last year. Today (June 30), Lil Nas X me out as gay, a source close to the suatn tells Pchfork. "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 TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED 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.

LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY

"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. The rapper and sger me out as gay June 2019 and acknowledged an terview at the time that LGBTQ+ people “aren’t really accepted” eher untry mic or rap muni. He also touched on how the mic dtry wants to package gay artists.

“It’s always been, ‘OK, if you’re gay, this needs to be sanised.

It’s like, ‘Be gay whout beg gay. Last year, Lil Nas X said he felt “bad” for DaBaby after the rapper suffered huge backlash for makg homophobic ments onstage. 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.

LIL NAS X TALKS ABOUT BACKLASH AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

“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 RELLS FAY'S HEARTBREAKG REACTN TO HIM COMG OUT AS GAY

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.