Lil Nas X, Tyler, the Creator lead wave of gay/bisexual rappers - Los Angel Tim

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

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 X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE

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.

LIL NAS X RPONDS TO WOAH VICKY SAYG HE’S PRETENDG TO BE GAY

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. 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.