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• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
• LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY
• HOW LIL NAS X IS REVOLUTNIZG HIP-HOP AS AN EMPOWERED GAY STAR
• THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM
• 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

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.

LIL NAS X COM OUT AS GAY

A seri of homophobic tweets Hart ma between 2009 and 2011 drew public scty late last year. The mic ftival Lollapalooza dropped rapper DaBaby om s lp after he ma homophobic remarks. And so he's no stranger to the variety of out that queer people are often told by homophob or, you know, like, quote, unquote, "people who really re" about what might happen to him - whether he go to hell, whether he'll go to jail or he'll do this, that and the third.

It's almost like he's sayg, homophob don't actually have that great of an imagatn, and I do. Did you get the sense that the fa of beg imperv to all the homophobia and hatred - that ever drops?

You seem to only rpect gay artists when the gay part is tucked away. - where he is a gay pop star who's e out at the height of his fame or - you know, for all we know, he uld somehow get even bigger.

HOW LIL NAS X IS REVOLUTNIZG HIP-HOP AS AN EMPOWERED GAY STAR

We have so many gay pop stars but so few openly gay pop stars and even fewer gay pop stars who are explicly sexual.

But what Lil Nas X do is he mak gay sex jt as part of his entire persona as a, you know, name lerally any straight pop star ever.

THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM

Lil Nas X me out as gay June 2019.

But the fact that a rap-aligned gay Black artist — let alone one who’s also such a untry fan that he vered Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” — uld pull this off atop the charts was startlg.

Hip-hop artists like Young Thug sometim toyed wh wearg drs to illtrate their ee spirs, but Lil Nas X ma a not-obv choice to put gay love and sire at the center of his craft. ’ If a gay person is playg wh Satanic them, you n’t not thk of Kenh Anger and Satan as a liberator, ” said Malamet, a wrer and podster on the history of queer genre and horror films. But others were outraged by the gay, Grammy Award-wng pop star for offendg them wh the vio’s homoeroticism.

LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”

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. 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.

"After the "Old Town Road" rapper explaed that he grew up "to hate this s---, " reference to beg gay, edian Kev Hart terjected and asked Nas said that "if you're really om the hood, you know, " and add that he wanted to show that "the ol du wh the song on top of everythg" g out meant "don't really matter. Lil Nas X got ndid about why he chose to e out as gay on an episo of HBO's "The Shop" — and his fans have taken to Twter to fend the talk show, which is executive produced by NBA superstar LeBron Jam, Lil Nas was joed by a few guts cludg actor and edian Kev Hart and the show's -creator Pl Rivera.