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

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• GAY HART GAFORMER VICE CHAIRMAN, CORP FOR PUBLIC BROADSTG
• JACQUELE GAY GA
• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
• BETSY GAY HART
• ‘HART TO HART’ IS A GLAMOROLY GAY TV DELIGHT
• REBEC GAYHEART
• KEV HART APOLOGIZED TO THE LGBTQ COMMUNY AGA OVER HIS ANTI-GAY TWEETS
• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”
• KEV HART: I WON’T PLAY A GAY CHARACTER
• KEV HART SLAMMED FOR MENTS HE MA TO LIL NAS X ON RAPPER G OUT AS GAY
• BETSY GAY HART
• GAY HART GAFORMER VICE CHAIRMAN, CORP FOR PUBLIC BROADSTG
• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM

GAY HART GAFORMER VICE CHAIRMAN, CORP FOR PUBLIC BROADSTG

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Lil Nas X is gettg praise for how he handled a nversatn about homosexualy wh edian Kev Hart.

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

Before the rapper uld rpond, Hart – who stepped down om hostg the Osrs 2018 after homophobic tweets he’d ma years earlier rurfaced – terjected.

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“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.

‘HART TO HART’ IS A GLAMOROLY GAY TV DELIGHT

A seri of homophobic tweets Hart ma between 2009 and 2011 drew public scty late last year. "I have been gay my entire life, sce I was a child. Though some of that live big ci n feel like half of the world is gay, 's a stark difference om many livg small towns.

"I was takg my mom somewhere one day and she jt asked 'are you gay? "I was so sred of what actually meant to ll yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was gog to eventually meet a girl and get married bee that's what men did, " he said.

REBEC GAYHEART

"But I was steadfast that like 'I'm gay and I probably shouldn't have been talg to someone that was 20 but I'm not gog to therapy, '" he said.

Apparently Bex Banks was the last to fd out he was gay. Though he was engaged gay sex, he didn't intify as gay. At age 21, his mom had enouugh and mand an explatn for the gay porn she was fdg on the puter and phone.

KEV HART APOLOGIZED TO THE LGBTQ COMMUNY AGA OVER HIS ANTI-GAY TWEETS

"Once I had the nversatn wh my mom, I had no problem sayg I was gay, " he said. "I was actually rehab when I was 16 years old and I thk a part of why I end up gog to rehab was the difficulty I had wh acceptg myself as a gay person, " Sharok said. For him, beg gay was a ath sentence beg that he grew up the 1990s durg the HIV/AIDS epimic and a fay member died of the disease.

"At that pot was kd of like an emotnal avalanche and I jt let all out and told her that I was gay.

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

" Fran said that while they have grown to accept him, his fay still believ he shouldn't act on his homosexualy. " At the time, Zevran was a gogo dancer performg gay clubs. Others, like Lance Hart—who produc and performs straight, gay, and bisexual porn—have cid agast raisg a fay.

"A lot of my fanbase is gay guys, " Johnny Stone says. And Gay Hart Ga have sold their two-bedroom beachont home and seven-bedroom guthoe at 1473 N. A longtime Republin Party fundraiser, Gay Ga served for many years as the natnal chairman of GOPAC, a Republin polil actn mtee.

Gay Ga, actg as a tstee, bought 1998 om the late Mark and Gert Maxwell for a rerd $6. Whout fail, every one reunts gettg ghosted on rol and scen due to the latent fear surroundg gay sex and potential HIV transmissn.

KEV HART: I WON’T PLAY A GAY CHARACTER

Stop now wh all the gay stuff, you uld probably be a straight pornstar, '" Hart says, while Sartre mentns that she's "fely lost work" due to their relatnship. "And while Hart adms that the stigma has actually led to him "makg a lot of money" via his pennt gay and femme-domme clip stor (as the supply for crossover talent don't meet dience mands), he do adm that the straight si of porn is herently sktish about certa sex acts that uld even vaguely be terpreted as "gay. Burts, a former crossover performer, ntracted HIV on set om a "known posive" male actor he had worked wh on a gay shoot where ndoms weren't ed for oral sex — an cint that led to tense scty of the sexual practic on the gay si of the dtry, which didn't require ttg at the time.

"A lot of people on the straight si felt that if you did gay porn or had sex wh men, due to CDC statistics, you were puttg everyone else at risk for HIV, " Zeischegg says, rellg the time he was told he was put on an dtry blacklist. "In fact, this stigma was part of the reason why Zeischegg cid to move away om gay porn.

KEV HART SLAMMED FOR MENTS HE MA TO LIL NAS X ON RAPPER G OUT AS GAY

In addn to fdg difficult to earn that much more for gay scen (though many male performers are able to earn a signifint amount more), his girliend at the time — a straight, female performer — "was mad, bee put her 'at risk. ""More often than not, is a gay or trans person jt bee of life circumstanc and liftyle stuff, and thats totally fe, " Sartre says, "But I thk if you want to be nervo about workg wh someone bee of an HIV risk, you have to treat everybody wh the same amount of risk, bee you don't know what people are dog their personal liv. "As for the big qutn of whether or not ridual homophobia is an unrlyg factor the stigma, Zeischegg is hant to assign any five e-and-effect.

After all, when he was still performg, "if you were to meet a straight male performer and they did a solo scene for a gay pany, would be assumed that, 'You're a fag. But by far the most surprisg source of fort to my achg, gay soul over the past month has been the impossibly glamoro, 1979 to 1984 mystery/romance procral Hart to Hart. And, at least for right now, I’m glad I am gog on this Hart to Hart journey bee I have learned somethg that I never knew about this show: is fully for the gays.

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Like The Goln Girls, Match Game, and RuPl’s Drag Race Seasons 1-3, Hart to Hart serv a place the pantheon of vtage gay televisn.

GAY HART GAFORMER VICE CHAIRMAN, CORP FOR PUBLIC BROADSTG

Tth, if you’re a gay man that’s as obssed wh classic TV, ’80s elegance, hairy chts, licly bad puns, and mpy actn as I am, you have to get to Hart to Hart. While the show stars straights Wagner and Stefanie Powers, and is also about a relentlsly straight uple (Jonathan and Jennifer Hart sentially take breaks om vigoro lovemakg to al wh all the murr that keeps happeng around them), there’s leg gay cred behd-the-scen.

Then there’s legendary gay creator Mart Crowley, who served as producer and executive script nsultant on the show.

—queer pop culture that was by gays/for gays/starrg gays wh his revolutnary 1968 Off-Broadway play The Boys the Band. That GIF is exactly as gay as Chromati.

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

Not buyg my whole “for-the-gays” this yet?

The gays will gag over their formal eleganza. The thg I love most, though, is Jonathan’s (and TBH Robert Wagner’s) unwaverg votn to the unniably gayt men’s fashn accsory of all: the neckerchief. But more than jt the mp-tacular actn, cheeky dialogue, and head-turng fashn, I realized as I ma my way through Season 1 that Hart to Hart picts an ial gay marriage—even if the lead is a hetero uple.

This is probably why both attempts at a morn Hart to Hart revival foced on gay upl (one 2002 wh Alan Cummg attached, and another 2015 starrg a uple named Jonathan Hart and Dan Hartman). Name somethg gayer?!