"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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- LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
- 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 AND JACK HARLOW GO TO ‘GAY PRISON’ FOR HOT, PK ‘INDTRY BABY’ VIO
- 'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
- LIL NAS X RELLS FAY'S HEARTBREAKG REACTN TO HIM COMG OUT AS GAY
- 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 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 TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS
“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? You seem to only rpect gay artists when the gay part is tucked away.
LIL NAS X JOK AND SAYS HE IS NO LONGER GAY AFTER LOSG AT GRAMMYS
- 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.
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. I am now no longer gay!
LIL NAS X AND JACK HARLOW GO TO ‘GAY PRISON’ FOR HOT, PK ‘INDTRY BABY’ VIO
His ment uld be a reference to the fact that he won two Grammy Awards for the song "Old Town Road" before he had publicly e out as gay. “[I] lerally went to hell and twerked on satan but gay prison is where you draw the le?!
Why do many thk LNX may not be gay?
Bee many thk that Lil nasx is not gay, and that everythg he is dog is part of a ncept, but that realy he is not gay. Many other artists are blatantly straight such as 1D boys, but their fans believe they are gay (I'm talkg about Larry fans) and hi when this is blatantly not te. They want them to be gay at all sts.
'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
Then when a gay artist who out early his reer, everyone thks 's not te that he homosexualy as a ncept. I have read some say that he is too mascule to be gay (as if masculy is an ditor of heterosexualy).
Is Lil Nas x really gay (I thk so, bee I don't thk lil nas x as much as he is a troll geni, he n play on such a lite subject)? Lil Nas me out as gay 2019 after Pri month at the height of his reer thanks to Old Town Road; a cisn he ma to prove he wasn’t g his preferenc to ga attentn.
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.
LIL NAS X RELLS FAY'S HEARTBREAKG REACTN TO HIM COMG OUT AS GAY
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.
Or perhaps, another profound moment that to md uld be when the superstar me out as gay to his Christian parents durg Pri Month last year. Touchg on the sensive topic, the 21-year-old revealed his father “said some very Christian thgs, ” like that his homosexualy “uld be the vil temptg” him. But others were outraged by the gay, Grammy Award-wng pop star for offendg them wh the vio’s homoeroticism.
LIL NAS X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE
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. 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. )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.