Lil Nas X Is Unapologetilly Gay, and Fans Love It

Contents:

• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
• LIL NAS X’S EVIL GAY SATANIC AGENDA, EXPLAED
• LIL NAS X AND JACK HARLOW GO TO ‘GAY PRISON’ FOR HOT, PK ‘INDTRY BABY’ VIO
• LIL NAS X TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS
• LIL NAS X IS UNAPOLOGETILLY GAY, AND FANS LOVE IT
• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”
• WHY LIL NAS X SAYS HE FELT PELLED TO E OUT AS GAY
• 'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
• LIL NAS IMPLI BEG ‘GAY’ ISN’T FUN ANY MORE AND HE MISS WOMEN

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. “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. "After the "Old Town Road" rapper explaed that he grew up "to hate this s---, " reference to beg gay, edian Kev Hart terjected and asked Nas said that "if you're really om the hood, you know, " and add that he wanted to show that "the ol du wh the song on top of everythg" g out meant "don't really matter. Lil Nas X got ndid about why he chose to e out as gay on an episo of HBO's "The Shop" — and his fans have taken to Twter to fend the talk show, which is executive produced by NBA superstar LeBron Jam, Lil Nas was joed by a few guts cludg actor and edian Kev Hart and the show's -creator Pl Rivera.

LIL NAS X’S EVIL GAY SATANIC AGENDA, EXPLAED

"Homosexualy, gay people, " Lil Nas said. —Nicki_Nicki_Nicki (@All_NickiMaj) September 4, 2019—David (@Dreams_on_Paper) September 4, 2019—Commanr Slay (@natayiu) September 4, 2019Hart, who apologized for homophobic jok he ma durg his stand-ups earlier this year, ma a pot to tell Lil Nas that " no way, shape or form" he had to fend who he is (a part that wasn't the clip shared to Twter).

However, some people on Twter thought the edian me on too strong, pecially due to his prev homophobic jok. It all started wh the March 26 release of his latt mic vio, “Montero (Call Me by Your Name), ” which he vorts erotilly wh var eratns of Satan, is stoned by a crowd throwg buttplugs, transforms a spear that’s been homoerotilly aimed at him (à la St.

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

Oh, and he do all of this while sgg wh a mix of joy and wryns about gay sex, the tratn of livg a closeted life, the pa of lovg someone who’s still the closet — Lil Nas himself is openly gay — and the jealoy he feels toward straight people who get to live their liv whout facg bigotry and opprsn due to their sexualy.

” The song’s subtle, “Call Me by Your Name, ” also doubl as a rea, which he sgs, “Call me by your name / tell me you love me private” — another reference to the closet, as well as a reference to the acclaimed 2017 film about an illic gay affair. The “Montero” mic vio, wh s nt queer eroticism, spurred an ial homophobic backlash as nservative viewers chid Lil Nas X for supposedly rptg children.

And beyond the ial hilary, the sho have also prompted a broar discsn about bigotry, homophobia, the historil roots of Satanic Panic the US, and whether all that much has really changed sce Satanic Panic began the 1980s. In ntext, the terse dismissal rri the terrified tone of a jock shoutg, “No homo” — an imprsn bolstered by Nike’s subsequent reported lawsu agast MSCHF. He also ntued urtg attentn and srn equal measure by promisg to release a Christian-iendly versn of the shoe, wh a nod to the famoly homophobic, if kda reformed, Christian-found fast food cha Chick-fil-A:.

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

But while he’s clearly been havg fun wh the rpons, he’s also been nsistent about bluntly explag the importance of the song and how fs to his role as one of the few out gay entertaers the mic dtry. Be gay, do crim, enjoy hell. The vio for “Montero” mostly classil imagery om a tradnal versn of Christiany to showse how tertwed the languag of religsy and homoeroticism have always been.

LIL NAS X IS UNAPOLOGETILLY GAY, AND FANS LOVE IT

Remember, queer people have historilly been nied accs to salvatn through legimized readgs of the Bible and stori like the fall of Adam and Eve — not to mentn the nstant remrs om most Christian church that they nsir beg gay a s.

The “Montero” vio is keepg wh this tradn: It teems wh tradnally homoerotic relig imagery, like the phallic spearg of St. The sence of beg queer, other words, is to “be gay, do crim, ” and to celebrate monstrosy. But there’s jt one problem: Morn Christiany isn’t exactly keen on figurative terpretatns, pecially when to mons and gay people.

So a queer Black entertaer, sgg about gay sex and flirtg wh the occult all one fell swoop? It’s virtually unheard of to see an openly gay entertaer sg about beg love and havg posive gay sexual experienc, let alone one as famo as Lil Nas X — who didn’t e out until after he was already famo.

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

“i spent my entire teenage years hatg myself bee of the sh y’all preached would happen to me bee i was gay, ” Lil Nas X tweeted. But others were outraged by the gay, Grammy Award-wng pop star for offendg them wh the vio’s homoeroticism. Homophobic backlash epted on social media – and didn’t stop there.

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.

WHY LIL NAS X SAYS HE FELT PELLED TO E OUT AS GAY

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. Lil Nas X is the first star of his kd – Black, gay, genre-bendg, Gen Z and award-wng.

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

)But last summer, the gay pop star found himself the middle of an ter storm. 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 IMPLI BEG ‘GAY’ ISN’T FUN ANY MORE AND HE MISS WOMEN

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. ”“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.