Anti-gay bigotry is on the fensive hip-hop right now.
Contents:
- LIL NAS X TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS
- LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
- HOW LIL NAS X IS REVOLUTNIZG HIP-HOP AS AN EMPOWERED GAY STAR
- LIL NAS X JOK AND SAYS HE IS NO LONGER GAY AFTER LOSG AT GRAMMYS
- 'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
- THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM
- LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY
- LIL NAS X'S SONG ABOUT GAY SEX EARNS 3 GRAMMY NOMATNS
LIL NAS X TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS
Wh hs like 'Indtry Baby' and the upg release of album 'Montero,' Lil Nas X emerg as an empowered gay man revolutnizg mic. * is lil nas x still gay *
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.
LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
Rapper Lil Nas X wr a note to his 14-year-old self about g out as gay. * is lil nas x still gay *
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.
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. I am now no longer gay!
HOW LIL NAS X IS REVOLUTNIZG HIP-HOP AS AN EMPOWERED GAY STAR
"Old Town Road" sger Lil Nas X appears to e out as gay, after the fd between Nicki Maj and Cardi B igned mors about his sexualy * is lil nas x still gay *
His ment uld be a reference to the fact that he won two Grammy Awards for the song "Old Town Road" before he had publicly e out as gay. But others were outraged by the gay, Grammy Award-wng pop star for offendg them wh the vio’s homoeroticism.
LIL NAS X JOK AND SAYS HE IS NO LONGER GAY AFTER LOSG AT GRAMMYS
Rapper Lil Nas X's h song about gay sex was nomated Tuday for three Grammy Awards, tapultg LGBTQ narrativ to the hight echelon of achievement * is lil nas x still gay *
Homophobic backlash epted on social media – and didn’t stop there.
'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
In the same week, rapper DaBaby was rerd sultg gay men and sharg misrmatn about HIV durg a performance at the mic ftival Rollg Loud.
And Boosie were quick to make a nnectn to the artist and the “Indtry Baby” vio, wh Boosie gog as far to e homophobic slurs and threateng to “beat [Lil Nas X’s] a**. “There’s still that general sentiment that this type of rapper, a gay, male rapper, isn’t reprentative of masculy, ” Oware said.
THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM
Lil Nas X is the first star of his kd – Black, gay, genre-bendg, Gen Z and award-wng. ” Through his chart-toppg songs, he explor trop – longg, dreams and dreams, pe – an explic manner, embracg his sir as a gay Black man. “I feel like that’s really important for reprentatn general, and this is gonna open more doors for one day when somebody says this, ’s like, ‘Oh, that person said that and I didn’t thk about , ’ ” Lil Nas X said earlier this year of his ambn to normalize gay sex, to vanquish mastream squeamishns about .
The clip for “Montero” – the full name nods to the 2007 gay g-of-age novel and s breathtakg 2017 film adaptatn – is chockablock wh referenc to the Bible.
After the show, Lil Nas X snaps the vil’s neck and dons his horns – a lic subversn, a rollickg rebe of the hellfire that gay people are often promised: No weapon that is formed agast thee shall prosper, Lil Nas X seems to say, wh a wk. At night, he asks that God take away his gay thoughts. Lil Nas X is gettg praise for how he handled a nversatn about homosexualy wh edian Kev Hart.
LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY
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.
LIL NAS X'S SONG ABOUT GAY SEX EARNS 3 GRAMMY NOMATNS
“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.