Rapper Lil Nas X wr a note to his 14-year-old self about g out as gay.
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- LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
- LIL NAS X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE
- 'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
- LIL NAS X JOK AND SAYS HE IS NO LONGER GAY AFTER LOSG AT GRAMMYS
- LIL NAS X IS UNAPOLOGETILLY GAY, AND FANS LOVE IT
LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
"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 * lil nas gay *
Lil Nas X is gettg praise for how he handled a nversatn about homosexualy wh edian Kev Hart.
LIL NAS X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE
Before the rapper uld rpond, Hart – who stepped down om hostg the Osrs 2018 after homophobic tweets he’d ma years earlier rurfaced – terjected.
'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
“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.
LIL NAS X JOK AND SAYS HE IS NO LONGER GAY AFTER LOSG AT GRAMMYS
A seri of homophobic tweets Hart ma between 2009 and 2011 drew public scty late last year. 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.
The mic ftival Lollapalooza dropped rapper DaBaby om s lp after he ma homophobic remarks.
LIL NAS X IS UNAPOLOGETILLY GAY, AND FANS LOVE IT
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.