Lil Nas X tried to expla why he me out as gay. Then Kev Hart terpted him | CNN

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• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
• LIL NAS X AND JACK HARLOW GO TO ‘GAY PRISON’ FOR HOT, PK ‘INDTRY BABY’ VIO
• LIL NAS X MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK ARTIST TO W AT CMA AWARDS
• 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 TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS
• LIL NAS X JOK AND SAYS HE IS NO LONGER GAY AFTER LOSG AT GRAMMYS
• LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY

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.

LIL NAS X AND JACK HARLOW GO TO ‘GAY PRISON’ FOR HOT, PK ‘INDTRY BABY’ VIO

“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 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?

LIL NAS X MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK ARTIST TO W AT CMA AWARDS

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.

LIL NAS X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE

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 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. "I know we promised to never e out publicly, 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, " he add that g out was difficult for him, and people acced him of "phg an agenda.

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

He said he was raised to believe that homosexualy "is never gog to be OK, " and he was aaid he would alienate fans. “I know the people who listen to this the most, and they’re not acceptg of homosexualy, ” he said at the, durg Pri Month, he changed his md. Durg season 8 of Amerin Idol 2009, the "Whataya Want om Me" performer was outed and faced homophobic ments om viewers across the untry.

"I thk he is fely like the gay pop star that is 2021 — he’s bold, he’s ntroversial, he’s phg boundari, " he said. It’s jt taken this long to have be a gay one. )But last summer, the gay pop star found himself the middle of an ter storm.

LIL NAS X TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS

Those who dismiss him need to listen to beyond the album’s lyril excellence and mil range, “Montero” also draws to a profound medatn on Lil Nas X’s experienc as a Black gay man who grew up Christian the South.

This Christian background largely shaped Lil Nas X’s early stggle wh his gay inty; like many the L. Muny who grew up relig, he at first saw beg gay as a tt om God.

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

In “Sun Go Down, ” he sgs: “The gay thoughts would always hnt me/ I prayed God would take om me/ It’s hard for you when you’re fight’/ And nobody knows when you’re silent.

” The song then lv to the suicidal iatn he faced while stgglg wh his gay inty and Christian upbrgg; the chos mourns, “Don’t wanna lie, I don’t want a life/ Send me a gun and I’ll see the sun. ” The cln of a Gospel choir the song’s mic vio further highlights the ep tertwg of his gay inty wh his Christian upbrgg.

LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY

”“Montero” draws to a profound medatn on Lil Nas X’s experienc as a Black gay man who grew up Christian the the most proment example of relig imagery his work is his Book of Genis-spired mic vio for “Montero (Call My by Your Name). He at first tri to n om his feelgs; when he fally giv to them, he appears heaven handcuffed and chas, while a crowd amphheater of people ma of stone pelt him om implitn is clear: Lil Nas X is not wele bee he is gay. ”If the church will not engage wh Lil Nas X and his experienc, he will image his own church that church settg is a clear reference to the unavailabily of Christian weddgs to gay upl.

Thanks for the love ??— MONTERO ? (@LilNasX) September 18, 2021“Montero” is the rult of Lil Nas X’s stggle wh aspects of his life, his relig experienc and his gay inty.

People, cludg om Christian schools, church and muni, has led and will ntue to lead to relig trma the muni, and th to a reckong wh Christian imagery gay culture. “[I] lerally went to hell and twerked on satan but gay prison is where you draw the le?! (Matt Wkelmeyer / Getty Imag) Lil Nas X ma history Wednday night at the 53rd CMA Awards when he beme the first openly gay black mician to take home a w om the Country Mic h “Old Town Road, ” a llaboratn wh veteran untry sger Billy Ray Cys, was named the mil event of the year.