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?
Contents:
- 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 JOK AND SAYS HE IS NO LONGER GAY AFTER LOSG AT GRAMMYS
- LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”
LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
A celebry who’s been cricized over his anti-gay past lectured Lil Nas X about homophobia and g out. * ls 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 has opened up about the “drag and strag” prsur of beg a Black gay artist the mic dtry. In a new terview wh Out magaze, Lil Nas X — whose real name is Montero — talked about his difficult upbrgg the South as a young gay Black man and how this has e to shape his sense of inty as he's matured.
LIL NAS X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE
“Growg up the Atlanta area, I [saw] a lot of microaggrsns towards homosexualy, ” he told Tre’vell Anrson. Lil Nas X went on to talk about his experience of g out as gay, which he said was “terrifyg. And Lil Nas X went on to open up about the mental stra and “prsure” he feels his posn as a Black gay artist an dtry that has always had a typilly fixed fn of what rappers are “supposed” to be.
This all jt weeks after Lil Nas X was faced wh a seri of anti-gay ments followg the release of his mic vio for “Indtry Baby, ” his latt sgle that featur rapper Jack Harlow. The mic vio — which se the 22-year-old prison, dancg naked the showers wh the other male mat — was met wh an overwhelmg amount of negative and anti-gay ments on Twter, wh some people accg him of “phg the gay agenda. However, Lil Nas X was quick to h back — typil Lil Nas X fashn — at many of the anti-gay ments, notably llg one er out for viewg “femy as weakns” and for beg “aaid” of Black men beg perceived as “weak.
You don’t like gay black men bee you are aaid of black men, as a whole, beg viewed as weak.
LIL NAS X JOK AND SAYS HE IS NO LONGER GAY AFTER LOSG AT GRAMMYS
I am now no longer gay! 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. 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 TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”
Lil Nas X is the first star of his kd – Black, gay, genre-bendg, Gen Z and award-wng.
The "Indtry Baby" mician, 22, opened up to Variety on the ver of their Power of Young Hollywood issue about his gay awakeng, g out and his current relatnship, which he says is "special. In his Variety terview, Lil Nas X shar he realized he was gay when he had a csh on his sister's as early as age 5. "Before that, there was a guy who wasn't my boyiend, but we met middle school and we talked, after we both found out that each other were gay.