Lil Nas X and the 'Old Town' Gay Agenda Wins
As Pride Month came and went, some recognized this celebratory yearly occurrence and some didn’t. But, it seemed as if the last day would be full of surprises. BET decided to take this time, hours before the rainbows would once again disappear from every companies logo, to say “Happy Pride” – and Lil Nas X came out.
The 20-year-old rapper, known for jumpstarting a new wave of the yee-haw agenda, tweeted:
some of y’all already know, some of y’all don’t care, some of y’all not gone fwm no more. but before this month ends i want y’all to listen closely to c7osure. 🌈🤩✨
He followed this up with a series of comedic retweets and replies, stating that he “thought i made it obvious” – pointing out a building displaying Pride colors on the cover of his debut EP.
I couldn’t help but feel like I had lived through this present situation before. It took me back to Frank Ocean’s ‘coming out’ on July 4th of 2012. This was the first time I had seen an entertainers sexuality at the center of an almost worldwide conversation. Prior to this, the lead single from Channel Orange, ‘Thinkin Bout You’ was on everyone’s iPod. And the majority of straight men had at some point tried to hit that falsetto to woo a girl they were crushing on. The announcement that, at one point in his life Ocean had engaged in a relationship with a man, caused a monumental shift. The tornado that flew around the room, was now a natural disaster set forth by the gay agenda. Straight men were forced to go into quarantine and avoid Frank’s music at all costs. They overanalyzed the lyrics, looking for any hint of hidden homosexual meaning.
It’s been 7 years, and somehow this insecurity jumped out once again. The first tweet that I saw discussing Lil Nas X’s post-straight career was to the effect of “So that’s what he meant by ride til’ I can’t no more”. With a deep sigh, I closed the Twitter app for the night. This type of ignorance, whether it was intended to be cruel or not, is homophobia at it’s finest. Society has a way of sexualizing anything involving queer people. Somehow a song that the world has been two stepping to for the past 6 months is akin to “Throw That Boy [redacted]”. You can no longer don your cowboy hat and bump this track, because you’ll be transported into a ‘Striking Vipers’ scenario and forced to reenact Brokeback Mountain?
Lil Nas X has been quick and witty with his responses to the criticism so far. But, why should he even have to deal with this ignorance. In 2019, when support of queer and trans rights is being touted by politicians and presidential candidates, the world is still so far behind in terms of how we perpetuate homophobia in daily interactions like these. Because it doesn’t end with feeling uncomfortable with one song. Queer and trans youth are homeless, and have been killed due to your ‘discomfort’. Lil Nas X deserves to live his life authentically, and make music that expresses how he feels. He can sing about paninis, or growing out of a relationship with another man — and I will bop to it either way.
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