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Contents:
- LIL NAS X MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK ARTIST TO W AT CMA AWARDS
- 2ND OPENLY GAY BLACK SGER ON MOTOWN RERDS CARL BEAN HAS DIED, WHO WAS THE FIRST?
- HE DIED HOMELS AND FOTTEN. NOW GAY BLACK POSER JULI EASTMAN FALLY GETS HIS DUE
LIL NAS X MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK ARTIST TO W AT CMA AWARDS
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(Matt Wkelmeyer / Getty Imag) Lil Nas X ma history Wednday night at the 53rd CMA Awards when he beme the first openly gay black mician to take home a w om the Country Mic h “Old Town Road, ” a llaboratn wh veteran untry sger Billy Ray Cys, was named the mil event of the year. 14, 2019An earlier versn of this article rrectly stated that Lil Nas X was the first openly gay artist to w a CMA Award.
He is the first openly gay black artist to do so. Country sgers Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, both of whom are whe and openly gay, shared the 2014 song of the year CMA Award wh Kacey Mgrav for “Follow Your Arrow. ILoveMakonneniLoveMakonnen follows one person on Instagram -- jt 12 ls than Kanye Shropshire via Getty ImagThe Atlanta native who embolned to thk clubbg on “Tuday” was acceptable 2014 performed a bolr act this January when he announced that he was gay.
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2ND OPENLY GAY BLACK SGER ON MOTOWN RERDS CARL BEAN HAS DIED, WHO WAS THE FIRST?
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There’s no nyg Lil Nas X’s impact on rap and pop mic as an out gay Black man, startg wh the viral release of “Old Town Road” at the end of 2018, then remixed wh Billy Ray Cys 2019. We saw Lil Nas X stroy homophob on social media throughout all of 2021.
HE DIED HOMELS AND FOTTEN. NOW GAY BLACK POSER JULI EASTMAN FALLY GETS HIS DUE
In an terview wh the BBC, the Grammy wner said that he never planned on g out as gay and always thought he'd take the tth of his sexualy to his grave. The artist has ntued to break barriers, beg the first openly gay Black artist to w at the CMAs.
Two years later, a one-on-one wh Wonrland magaze, Stenberg, who has also e out as nonbary, shared that they are gay. "I was so overe wh this profound sense of relief when I realized that I'm gay — not bi, not pan, but gay — wh a romantic love for women, " they told Wonrland.