Lil Nas X was asked to expla why he me out as gay. Kev Hart terpted him. - Vox

Contents:

• 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 TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS
• WA … LIL NAS X IS NOT GAY?
• LIL NAS X RPOND TO SOMEONE WHO SAID HE'S NOT "REALLY GAY" AND I CHOKED ON MY SP
• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”

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

The mic ftival Lollapalooza dropped rapper DaBaby om s lp after he ma homophobic remarks. And so he's no stranger to the variety of out that queer people are often told by homophob or, you know, like, quote, unquote, "people who really re" about what might happen to him - whether he go to hell, whether he'll go to jail or he'll do this, that and the third. It's almost like he's sayg, homophob don't actually have that great of an imagatn, and I do.

Did you get the sense that the fa of beg imperv to all the homophobia and hatred - that ever drops? You seem to only rpect gay artists when the gay part is tucked away.

- where he is a gay pop star who's e out at the height of his fame or - you know, for all we know, he uld somehow get even bigger.

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

We have so many gay pop stars but so few openly gay pop stars and even fewer gay pop stars who are explicly sexual. But what Lil Nas X do is he mak gay sex jt as part of his entire persona as a, you know, name lerally any straight pop star ever. 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 X TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS

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.

WA … LIL NAS X IS NOT GAY?

A seri of homophobic tweets Hart ma between 2009 and 2011 drew public scty late last year. Why do many thk LNX may not be gay?

Bee many thk that Lil nasx is not gay, and that everythg he is dog is part of a ncept, but that realy he is not gay.

LIL NAS X RPOND TO SOMEONE WHO SAID HE'S NOT "REALLY GAY" AND I CHOKED ON MY SP

Many other artists are blatantly straight such as 1D boys, but their fans believe they are gay (I'm talkg about Larry fans) and hi when this is blatantly not te. They want them to be gay at all sts. Then when a gay artist who out early his reer, everyone thks 's not te that he homosexualy as a ncept.

I have read some say that he is too mascule to be gay (as if masculy is an ditor of heterosexualy).

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

Is Lil Nas x really gay (I thk so, bee I don't thk lil nas x as much as he is a troll geni, he n play on such a lite subject)? 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.