From Tyler, the Creator to Lil Nas X, hip-hop has never had so many stars who intify as gay or bisexual. Is this a blip or a turng pot?
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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
- LIL NAS X OPENS UP ABOUT REALISG HE WAS GAY WHEN HE WAS FIVE YEARS OLD
- LIL NAS IMPLI BEG ‘GAY’ ISN’T FUN ANY MORE AND HE MISS WOMEN
- LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY
LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
* how is lil nas x gay *
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. Lil Nas X me out as gay June 2019.
LIL NAS X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE
Rapper Lil Nas X wr a note to his 14-year-old self about g out as gay. * how is lil nas x gay *
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.
LIL NAS X OPENS UP ABOUT REALISG HE WAS GAY WHEN HE WAS FIVE YEARS OLD
As Lil Nas X be bolr his lyrics and creative visn, he transcends nf of "The Gay Rapper" stereotype, rvg out space as an unapologetic msiah for today's queer generatn. * how is lil nas x gay *
’ 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 IMPLI BEG ‘GAY’ ISN’T FUN ANY MORE AND HE MISS WOMEN
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.
LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY
It's almost like he's sayg, homophob don't actually have that great of an imagatn, and I do.