IRS 'Whistleblower X,' a Gay Democrat, Reveals Inty and Tells Congrs He Was Blocked om Invtigatg Hunter Bin

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• IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN

Last night, I saw somethg I didn’t que believe I ever would get to see: An openly gay mic superstar dulgg a sex-and-dgs-and-s vio fantasy.

I don’t thk ’s possible for me, a 41-year-old gay man, to overstate jt how monumental was to see a 21-year-old gay man exprs his sexualy on exactly the same terms — and at the same level of fame, succs and media attentn — his straight unterparts have enjoyed for s.

Instead, historilly, gay men who’d reached a siar reer pnacle at roughly the same age have eher had to stay the closet and sg about women — see: New Kids on the Block’s Jonathan Knight, NSYNC’s Lance Bass, Ricky Mart — or e out after tablishg themselv and keep their sexualy vaguely PG terrory (if that). I do not blame any of the men for makg the choic, if ed ’s even possible to ll them choic given the pervasive homophobia of the mic bs at the time and the world at large. When One Directn’s self-nsc flirtatn wh each other only magnified their fame — and their sex appeal to tween and teen girls — I marveled at how the lads managed to flip the boy band script on gay panic while also wonrg whether an A-list queer mic star would ever be able to jt actually flirt whout quotatn marks attached to .

IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN

“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. After s of transposg our sir onto the fantasi projected by straight (or ocsnally bisexual) women, here’s Lil Nas X, providg gay men a sex idol all their own. A mpg trip turns to a ral gay fantasy Yuma X's new mic vio, "Secret Lover.

Joe Ziegler, a special agent wh the tax agency for 13 years, scribed himself as a "gay Democrat married to a man" and said he cid to e forward spe his personal polics bee he believ "no one should be above the law regardls of your polil affiliatn. "I equate this to the experience and feelgs I enuntered when g out [as gay], " said Ziegler. Lil Nas X me out as gay June 2019.

But the fact that a rap-aligned gay Black artist — let alone one who’s also such a untry fan that he vered Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” — uld pull this off atop the charts was startlg. Hip-hop artists like Young Thug sometim toyed wh wearg drs to illtrate their ee spirs, but Lil Nas X ma a not-obv choice to put gay love and sire at the center of his craft. ’ If a gay person is playg wh Satanic them, you n’t not thk of Kenh Anger and Satan as a liberator, ” said Malamet, a wrer and podster on the history of queer genre and horror films.