From Tyler, the Creator to Lil Nas X, hip-hop has never had so many stars who intify as gay or bisexual. Is this a blip or a turng pot?
Contents:
- LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
- FIVE YEARS OLD AND GAY RURAL, WTERN KANSAS
- WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A GAY LTLE PERSON
- LIL NAS X AND JACK HARLOW GO TO ‘GAY PRISON’ FOR HOT, PK ‘INDTRY BABY’ VIO
- THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM
LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
A gay man fondly rells his first homosexual experience ral, wtern Kansas at five years old which end wh unhappy effects. * gay lil boy *
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).
FIVE YEARS OLD AND GAY RURAL, WTERN KANSAS
There are about 30,000 ltle people Ameri, acrdg to Joanna Campbell, executive director of the largt ltle people anizatn the untry, Ltle People of Ameri. Campbell timat that the amount of ltle people are equally divid by sex. If there are 15,000 men wh dwarfism Ameri, and like the general populatn acrdg to Seth Stephens-Davidowz, five percent of them are predomantly attracted to men, that means there are 750 gay ltle men Ameri. That’s .000233 percent of the populatn, or one every 430,000 people. * gay lil boy *
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 .
“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. 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.
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A GAY LTLE PERSON
* gay lil boy *
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. 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.
LIL NAS X AND JACK HARLOW GO TO ‘GAY PRISON’ FOR HOT, PK ‘INDTRY BABY’ VIO
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. ESSAY | LIFE | RURAL LIVING | LGBT+ | AUTOBIOGRAPHYFive Years Old and Gay Rural, Wtern KansasThe remarkable story of Kev and the doghoe(Not a Medium member? That is, I had feelgs, sir, pulsns, and attractns that I still had at 11 and would then regnize as homosexualy.
THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM
My sneakg spicn that the feelgs were very wrong beme realy when my grandmother found out urse, at five, I had no ncept of beg gay. If there are 15, 000 men wh dwarfism Ameri, and like the general populatn acrdg to Seth Stephens-Davidowz, five percent of them are predomantly attracted to men, that means there are 750 gay ltle men Ameri.