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- LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
- 'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
- LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”
- 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 TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS
- LIL NAS X'S SONG ABOUT GAY SEX EARNS 3 GRAMMY NOMATNS
LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
"Old Town Road" sger Lil Nas X appears to e out as gay, after the fd between Nicki Maj and Cardi B igned mors about his sexualy * lil nas 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.
'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
A celebry who’s been cricized over his anti-gay past lectured Lil Nas X about homophobia and g out. * lil nas x gay *
A seri of homophobic tweets Hart ma between 2009 and 2011 drew public scty late last year. 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. The mic ftival Lollapalooza dropped rapper DaBaby om s lp after he ma homophobic remarks.
LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. KEV HART: “SO WHAT?”
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.
LIL NAS X OPENED UP ABOUT THE MICROAGGRSNS HE EXPERIENCED BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY AND THE PRSURE HE’S FACED SCE
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.
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. Lil Nas X has explaed why he cid to e out publicly as gay — durg a nversatn that end up beg more about Kev Hart, the edian who terpted him.
LIL NAS X TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS
“He said he was gay!
Lil Nas X ntued by sayg he me out bee was important for him to bat anti-gay sentiment society. “I’m growg up to hate this sh, ” Lil Nas X said, referrg to beg gay. “If you’re really om the hood, you know, ” Lil Nas X said to Hart, implyg that Hart should know about homophobia and anti-LGBTQ sentiments the black muny.
His “really om the hood” clapback to Hart was the clost any of the guts on the show got to acknowledgg that Hart has ma homophobic ments and jok the past.
LIL NAS X'S SONG ABOUT GAY SEX EARNS 3 GRAMMY NOMATNS
Hart was famoly picked to host the 2019 Osrs and then qu amid backlash after he ially refed to apologize for homophobic jok and ments he’d ma the past, sayg he'd already apologized for them and changed his ways. Though he eventually said he was sorry for any hurt he’d ed, he did so only after repeatedly referrg to those who were upset about his old jok and ments (Hart had ed gay slurs on social media and said that if his son would e out as gay, he would break a dollhoe on his head) as trolls and haters. It's uniquely puzzlg that Hart was part of a natnal nversatn about homophobic ments that st him an Osrs hostg gig, only to terpt a gay person’s answer about g out while seemg to suggt he uldn't picture the homophobia that person might have faced.
Lil Nas X was lerally referrg to homophobia he grew up wh and the importance of reprentatn, and here was Hart, whose homophobic remarks and dignant apologi for said remarks ma natnal news, appearg to feign naiveté. Hart, along wh others the discsn, went on to say that beg gay shouldn’t be an issue 2019. “What I wanna say to Lil Nas X is that no way shape or form should you have to fend [yourself] … when you have a voice and simply say ‘this’ [beg gay, ] there is no back-and-forth about what ‘this’ is.