"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
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- 'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
- ‘OLD TOWN ROAD’ IS A RERD-BREAKG, GAY-PRI-CELEBRATG, AMERI-UNIFYG POP-CULTURE MIRACLE
- LIL NAS X WAS WORRIED G OUT AS GAY WOULD ALIENATE 'OLD TOWN ROAD' FANS
- GAY BARS CELEBRATED AT CHIGO HISTORY MM
'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
Though the track didn’t arrive as part of the realy show of s creator’s life — a rary the morn rerd dtry, which celebry narrative l, and another reason this song qualifi as a novelty — s ascent has drawn wele attentn to Lil Nas X’s inty as both a black man untry mic and a gay man may not have nscly serted those them to “Old Town Road” — then aga, he may have done precisely that — but when we look back at the song years om now will undoubtedly speak to of this plited Demento said that’s more typil of novelty songs than folks might assume; he ced “Monster Mash” and what tells about Amerins’ changg attus regardg Halloween the early 1960s. Lil Nas X, the rapper rponsible for the mega-h untry-rap sensatn "Old Town Road, " me out as gay June to ci wh Pri Month.
‘OLD TOWN ROAD’ IS A RERD-BREAKG, GAY-PRI-CELEBRATG, AMERI-UNIFYG POP-CULTURE MIRACLE
“I know the people who listen to this the most, and they’re not acceptg of homosexualy, ” Lil Nas X said a ver story for Time, notg that he was brought up to believe that beg gay "is never gog to be OK. ”Origal story:'Old Town Road' rapper Lil Nas X out as gay: 'Thought i ma obv'On June 30, the Atlanta artist suggted fans take a close look at the lyrics to one of his songs, promptg some fans to wonr if he was g out. He later nfirmed the speculatn, tweetg, "jt cuz i’m gay don’t mean i’m not straight.
LIL NAS X WAS WORRIED G OUT AS GAY WOULD ALIENATE 'OLD TOWN ROAD' FANS
"I don’t want to jt live my entire life, pecially how I got to where I’m at, jt not dog what I want to do, " he an Instagram post July meant to celebrate his song's historic n on the Billboard charts, Lil Nas X received ments bashg his inty, rangg om "Can you not be gay" to "He's gay I'm no longer listeng to this (expletive)" to "U still gay tho. "But the rapper is keepg thgs light: "Jt got news that i’m gay and i will no longer be streamg my mic. An upsi-down beer sign once served as a fairly reliable if not foolproof for gay bars Chigo.
GAY BARS CELEBRATED AT CHIGO HISTORY MM
OLD TOWN — The Chigo History Mm celebrat gay bars as fol pots the fight for LGBTQ rights wh a discsn Thursday that's part of s annual "Out at CHM" seri. "From that sort of self-awarens that they weren't the only one, people began to see that the problem wasn't the fact that they were gay or LGBT, rather the problem was the way society viewed the LGBT muny, " he add.
Daley lled for a crackdown on gay bars an effort to "clean up the cy" ahead of the 1968 Democratic Natnal Conventn. He creded a movement that borrowed tactics om the civil-rights era and antiwar activism, sometim growg out of stunt prott such as the gay liberatn movement at the Universy of Chigo, but even so much of the activy remaed centered on gay bars. The bars only gradually me to the open, gog through perds where, for stance, an upsi-down beer sign might signify a gay bar to those the know, as thgs moved toward more wispread acceptance.