Retro-style Satanic Panic is back, blend wh nspiracy theori about child sex traffickg, Disney "groomg," and a "gay agenda."
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LIL NAS X’S EVIL GAY SATANIC AGENDA, EXPLAED
It all started wh the March 26 release of his latt mic vio, “Montero (Call Me by Your Name), ” which he vorts erotilly wh var eratns of Satan, is stoned by a crowd throwg buttplugs, transforms a spear that’s been homoerotilly aimed at him (à la St. Oh, and he do all of this while sgg wh a mix of joy and wryns about gay sex, the tratn of livg a closeted life, the pa of lovg someone who’s still the closet — Lil Nas himself is openly gay — and the jealoy he feels toward straight people who get to live their liv whout facg bigotry and opprsn due to their sexualy. ” The song’s subtle, “Call Me by Your Name, ” also doubl as a rea, which he sgs, “Call me by your name / tell me you love me private” — another reference to the closet, as well as a reference to the acclaimed 2017 film about an illic gay affair.
The “Montero” mic vio, wh s nt queer eroticism, spurred an ial homophobic backlash as nservative viewers chid Lil Nas X for supposedly rptg children. And beyond the ial hilary, the sho have also prompted a broar discsn about bigotry, homophobia, the historil roots of Satanic Panic the US, and whether all that much has really changed sce Satanic Panic began the 1980s. In ntext, the terse dismissal rri the terrified tone of a jock shoutg, “No homo” — an imprsn bolstered by Nike’s subsequent reported lawsu agast MSCHF.
WHAT’S NEXT ON THE ‘GAY’ AGENDA AFTER TRANSGENRISM?
He also ntued urtg attentn and srn equal measure by promisg to release a Christian-iendly versn of the shoe, wh a nod to the famoly homophobic, if kda reformed, Christian-found fast food cha Chick-fil-A:. But while he’s clearly been havg fun wh the rpons, he’s also been nsistent about bluntly explag the importance of the song and how fs to his role as one of the few out gay entertaers the mic dtry. Be gay, do crim, enjoy hell.
The vio for “Montero” mostly classil imagery om a tradnal versn of Christiany to showse how tertwed the languag of religsy and homoeroticism have always been. Remember, queer people have historilly been nied accs to salvatn through legimized readgs of the Bible and stori like the fall of Adam and Eve — not to mentn the nstant remrs om most Christian church that they nsir beg gay a s. The “Montero” vio is keepg wh this tradn: It teems wh tradnally homoerotic relig imagery, like the phallic spearg of St.