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• 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 JOK AND SAYS HE IS NO LONGER GAY AFTER LOSG AT GRAMMYS
• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”
• 'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
• LIL NAS X TELLS GAYLE KG HE USED TO PRAY THAT BEG GAY ‘WAS LIKE A PHASE’
• LIL NAS X'S SONG ABOUT GAY SEX EARNS 3 GRAMMY NOMATNS
• MEET LIL NAS X, THE COUNTRY RAPPER WHO JT CAME OUT AS GAY
• LIL NAS X APPEARS TO COME OUT AS GAY PRI POST

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

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.

A seri of homophobic tweets Hart ma between 2009 and 2011 drew public scty late last year.

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

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.

LIL NAS X JOK AND SAYS HE IS NO LONGER GAY AFTER LOSG AT GRAMMYS

1 song the untry, that he me out as gay. Now, 2021, he had achieved the unthkable, a feat only dreamed of by some of his peers who had gone om anonymy to the top of the charts — he ma another h song, and a brazenly gay one at that.

LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”

Maybe was the adrenale of the show, or the past two years of livg as an openly gay man, or some new wisdom unlocked by his recent birthday, settg him on a path of beg open to rejectn and growth. This is the difference between the Nas of “Old Town Road” and the one heard now, both mil approach and self-pictn: The new one is really, really gay.

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

He wanted to be not jt a pop star but a visibly gay one, a figure built on that Gen Z tenncy to heighten a sexual inty to an exaggerated shtick, but one found on a genue pri and fort. (When I first told him I was a lbian, he limped his wrist approval — an offensive gture meant to mock gay men, reappropriated to a nvivial meme. ) After years of hidg himself, there was now no mistakg : He was tryg to be, all at once, a hmaker, a huge pop star, an out gay man and a sexual beg.

LIL NAS X TELLS GAYLE KG HE USED TO PRAY THAT BEG GAY ‘WAS LIKE A PHASE’

Afterward, he posted a screenshot of an “article” om ABC News to his social media feeds, cleverly photoshopped to seem thentic: “Congrats are orr as Lil Nas X mak headl aga this week as he be the first gay person to earn a license. His father, who had by this pot married and had more children, was a gospel sger, and church beme a bigger part of Nas’s life at the same time as his romantic thoughts about other boys did — along wh a growg tert gay porn. It’s the age-old nnectn between gay men and divas: Some men fall for Cher and others for Whney Hoton, but if you were a Black, closeted teenager the South wh a fiant spir, a pugnac personaly and a ep appreciatn for lorful wigs, then Nicki Maj was your woman.

LIL NAS X'S SONG ABOUT GAY SEX EARNS 3 GRAMMY NOMATNS

(And then, when he first h big and fans figured out his ter past, he nied every part of this, not wantg people to know he was gay. But now, the makg of his first full-length album, he was still tryg to dodge what the rapper Q-Tip once lled the “sophomore jx.

” (Not a sophomore slump — slumps n be cured wh Red Bull — but a jx, which feels otherworldly, out of your hands.

Nowhere has this allegatn weighed more heavily than wh “Montero, ” a song whose mic vio is a purposefully provotive sendup of the eternal damnatn that Nas, and untls gay people, have been promised.

MEET LIL NAS X, THE COUNTRY RAPPER WHO JT CAME OUT AS GAY

) Where those three aimed to tillate, though, Lil Nas X wanted to monstrate: This is what havg a gay pop star uld actually look like — at least one versn, anyway. Harris lled unassailably gay, gen and darg.

Gay pop stardom is nothg new, but a pop stardom a posn to clu overt sexualy might be.

It’s one thg to accept a gay person, as many do, by ignorg what we do behd closed doors. But ’s que another to embrace gay people as sexual begs, who n also enact an inty — jt as straight people so proudly, publicly and lucratively do — part through sex self. He spent the days after his BET performance battlg homophob onle, his anxiety clear his higher-than-ual number of tweets.

LIL NAS X APPEARS TO COME OUT AS GAY PRI POST

“We are 4 months and people are still actg surprised that I am beg gay and sexual performanc of a song about gay and sexual” stuff, he tweeted the next day. “Like the song is lerally about gay sex what y’all want me to do play the piano while bakg a ke?

“What mak Lil Nas X so extraordary is how brave he is at beg so outwardly gay wh the urban mic world, ” Elton John said to me an email. Nas rpond to someone who said he uld “jt be a gay male and show up to the BET Awards wh a su and tie.