A celebry who’s been cricized over his anti-gay past lectured Lil Nas X about homophobia and g out.
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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 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
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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 OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE
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.
“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.
LIL NAS X JOK AND SAYS HE IS NO LONGER GAY AFTER LOSG AT GRAMMYS
You don’t like gay black men bee you are aaid of black men, as a whole, beg viewed as weak.
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.
LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”
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.
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.