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 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.
LIL NAS X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE
“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 RPONDS TO WOAH VICKY SAYG HE’S PRETENDG TO BE GAY
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).