Lil Nas X tried to expla why he me out as gay. Then Kev Hart terpted him | CNN

Contents:

• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
• THE SUBVERSIVE JOY OF LIL NAS X’S GAY POP STARDOM
• LIL NAS X TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS
• WA … LIL NAS X IS NOT GAY?
• LIL NAS X RPOND TO SOMEONE WHO SAID HE'S NOT "REALLY GAY" AND I CHOKED ON MY SP
• 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

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.

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

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 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 TEMPORARILY DECIS HE'S NOT GAY AFTER LOSG AT THE GRAMMYS

A seri of homophobic tweets Hart ma between 2009 and 2011 drew public scty late last year. Why do many thk LNX may not be gay? Bee many thk that Lil nasx is not gay, and that everythg he is dog is part of a ncept, but that realy he is not gay.

Many other artists are blatantly straight such as 1D boys, but their fans believe they are gay (I'm talkg about Larry fans) and hi when this is blatantly not te. They want them to be gay at all sts.

WA … LIL NAS X IS NOT GAY?

Then when a gay artist who out early his reer, everyone thks 's not te that he homosexualy as a ncept. I have read some say that he is too mascule to be gay (as if masculy is an ditor of heterosexualy).

Is Lil Nas x really gay (I thk so, bee I don't thk lil nas x as much as he is a troll geni, he n play on such a lite subject)? 1 song the untry, that he me out as gay. Now, 2021, he had achieved the unthkable, a feat only dreamed of by some of his peers who had gone om anonymy to the top of the charts — he ma another h song, and a brazenly gay one at that.

LIL NAS X RPOND TO SOMEONE WHO SAID HE'S NOT "REALLY GAY" AND I CHOKED ON MY SP

Maybe was the adrenale of the show, or the past two years of livg as an openly gay man, or some new wisdom unlocked by his recent birthday, settg him on a path of beg open to rejectn and growth. This is the difference between the Nas of “Old Town Road” and the one heard now, both mil approach and self-pictn: The new one is really, really gay. He wanted to be not jt a pop star but a visibly gay one, a figure built on that Gen Z tenncy to heighten a sexual inty to an exaggerated shtick, but one found on a genue pri and fort.

(When I first told him I was a lbian, he limped his wrist approval — an offensive gture meant to mock gay men, reappropriated to a nvivial meme. ) After years of hidg himself, there was now no mistakg : He was tryg to be, all at once, a hmaker, a huge pop star, an out gay man and a sexual beg. Afterward, he posted a screenshot of an “article” om ABC News to his social media feeds, cleverly photoshopped to seem thentic: “Congrats are orr as Lil Nas X mak headl aga this week as he be the first gay person to earn a license.

His father, who had by this pot married and had more children, was a gospel sger, and church beme a bigger part of Nas’s life at the same time as his romantic thoughts about other boys did — along wh a growg tert gay porn. It’s the age-old nnectn between gay men and divas: Some men fall for Cher and others for Whney Hoton, but if you were a Black, closeted teenager the South wh a fiant spir, a pugnac personaly and a ep appreciatn for lorful wigs, then Nicki Maj was your woman. (And then, when he first h big and fans figured out his ter past, he nied every part of this, not wantg people to know he was gay.

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

But now, the makg of his first full-length album, he was still tryg to dodge what the rapper Q-Tip once lled the “sophomore jx. ” (Not a sophomore slump — slumps n be cured wh Red Bull — but a jx, which feels otherworldly, out of your hands. Nowhere has this allegatn weighed more heavily than wh “Montero, ” a song whose mic vio is a purposefully provotive sendup of the eternal damnatn that Nas, and untls gay people, have been promised.

) Where those three aimed to tillate, though, Lil Nas X wanted to monstrate: This is what havg a gay pop star uld actually look like — at least one versn, anyway. Harris lled unassailably gay, gen and darg. Gay pop stardom is nothg new, but a pop stardom a posn to clu overt sexualy might be.