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Lil Nas X done kissed that man at the BET Awards AND on a Sunday… good for him. ~ Everybody face after #LilNasX performance!! #betawards2021 /7GKwVeYya3 Y’all really like to pretend homosexuality didn’t exist in african culture Īs if we didn’t stan Lil Nas X already! Can we have him perform at every awards show?īelow, check out more tweets praising his “Montero” makeout. Nas X, the unofficial king of trolling, quote-retweeted the criticism with his own history lesson for the uneducated children out there:
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One Twitter user blasted Lil Nas X for the kiss, writing, “Don’t use African culture for shits like this!!! Respect our ancestors.” Celebrities like Diddy praised the act, but not everyone was happy about the onscreen lip-lock. Twitter was set ablaze by the same-sex smooch, which was first kiss between two Black men to air during the BET Awards in the show’s 20-year history. He closed out the performance by sharing a steamy kiss with one of his male backup dancers. After dancing with some fierce pharaohs, Nas X climbed the pyramid stairs onstage. The out rapper’s performance of “Montero” was a tribute to Michael Jackson’s to classic “Remember the Time” music video from 1992, complete with Ancient Egyptian imagery. The agenda to make people stay the fuck out of other people’s lives and stop dictating who they should be.Lil Nas X is getting Twitter all hot and bothered - again.Īt the 2021 BET Awards on Sunday (June 27), Nas X performed a royal rendition his massive hit single “Montero (Call Me By Your Name).” Although he left his Satanic stripper pole at home this time, he still managed to make some viewers clutch their pearls. You see this is very scary for me, people will be angry, they will say I’m pushing an agenda. “I know we promised to never be ‘that’ type of gay person, I know we promised to die with the secret, but this will open doors for many other queer people to simply exist. “I know we promised to never come out publicly,” Nas wrote. When debuting the video on Thursday night, Nas also posted a letter to his 14-year-old self, with words that resonated deeply for me, and I suspect many other LGBTQ people. When One Direction’s self-conscious flirtation with each other only magnified their fame - and their sex appeal to tween and teen girls - I marveled at how these lads managed to flip the boy band script on gay panic while also wondering whether an A-list queer music star would ever be able to just actually flirt without quotation marks attached to it.Ĭut to Lil Nas X, grinding on Satan’s lap in thigh-high stiletto boots, an image that made me feel old and young again all at once. All of these men have made music that I’ve loved, and I’ve celebrated when they were finally able to come out, while also clocking the marked downturn many of their music careers took after they did so.
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I do not blame any of these men for making these choices, if indeed it’s even possible to call them choices given the pervasive homophobia of the music business at the time and the world at large. See: Elton John, George Michael, Michael Stipe, Mika and, again, Ricky Martin. Instead, historically, gay men who’d reached a similar career pinnacle at roughly the same age have either had to stay in the closet and sing about women - see: New Kids on the Block’s Jonathan Knight, NSYNC’s Lance Bass, Ricky Martin - or come out after establishing themselves and keep their sexuality in vaguely PG territory (if that).