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 RPONDS TO WOAH VICKY SAYG HE’S PRETENDG TO BE GAY
LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
* is lil naz 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.
Last night, I saw somethg I didn’t que believe I ever would get to see: An openly gay mic superstar dulgg a sex-and-dgs-and-s vio fantasy. I don’t thk ’s possible for me, a 41-year-old gay man, to overstate jt how monumental was to see a 21-year-old gay man exprs his sexualy on exactly the same terms — and at the same level of fame, succs and media attentn — his straight unterparts have enjoyed for s.
LIL NAS X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE
Instead, historilly, gay men who’d reached a siar reer pnacle at roughly the same age have eher had to stay the closet and sg about women — see: New Kids on the Block’s Jonathan Knight, NSYNC’s Lance Bass, Ricky Mart — or e out after tablishg themselv and keep their sexualy vaguely PG terrory (if that). I do not blame any of the men for makg the choic, if ed ’s even possible to ll them choic given the pervasive homophobia of the mic bs at the time and the world at large. When One Directn’s self-nsc flirtatn wh each other only magnified their fame — and their sex appeal to tween and teen girls — I marveled at how the lads managed to flip the boy band script on gay panic while also wonrg whether an A-list queer mic star would ever be able to jt actually flirt whout quotatn marks attached to .
“I know we promised to never be ‘that’ type of gay person, I know we promised to die wh the secret, but this will open doors for many other queer people to simply exist. After s of transposg our sir onto the fantasi projected by straight (or ocsnally bisexual) women, here’s Lil Nas X, providg gay men a sex idol all their own.
” Through his chart-toppg songs, he explor trop – longg, dreams and dreams, pe – an explic manner, embracg his sir as a gay Black man. “I feel like that’s really important for reprentatn general, and this is gonna open more doors for one day when somebody says this, ’s like, ‘Oh, that person said that and I didn’t thk about , ’ ” Lil Nas X said earlier this year of his ambn to normalize gay sex, to vanquish mastream squeamishns about .
LIL NAS X RPONDS TO WOAH VICKY SAYG HE’S PRETENDG TO BE GAY
The clip for “Montero” – the full name nods to the 2007 gay g-of-age novel and s breathtakg 2017 film adaptatn – is chockablock wh referenc to the Bible. After the show, Lil Nas X snaps the vil’s neck and dons his horns – a lic subversn, a rollickg rebe of the hellfire that gay people are often promised: No weapon that is formed agast thee shall prosper, Lil Nas X seems to say, wh a wk. At night, he asks that God take away his gay thoughts.
”Overnight, the 20-year-old Atlanta native — born Montero Lamar Hill — beme the biggt gay pop star the world. ”“It’s hard to be out genr where beg gay, or exprsg your sexualy, is owned upon, ” add platum rapper and sger iLoveMakonnen, born Makonnen Sheran, who rose to fame as a protégé of Drake and me out as gay 2017. ”Before the viral sensatn of “Old Town Road” turned Hill to a pop star and gay in, hip-hop was already reachg a turng pot s clivy, as more young black men explorg sexualy and terrogatg masculy their work are gettg mastream attentn.
) Kev Abstract, founr of hip-hop llective Brockhampton, me out as gay 2016. Rap culture has always been powered by unbridled machismo, and one would be hard prsed to not fd a gay slur embedd the lyrics of any of the genre’s most famo archects.