“With all of the accolades [Lil Nas X] racked up in the last year, leaving him out of a celebration of Black music seems intentional, and it wouldn’t be a stretch to identify some level of queerphobia as the issue.”
— fellow artists who also identify as queer Black men — were nominated for awards, but Lil Nas X pointed out that his style and presentation skews less masculine than theirs does, which he feels is why they’re more embraced in popular culture.Though many may not agree with his tactics, Lil Nas X makes a great point.
“I just feel like black gay ppl have to fight to be seen in this world and even when we make it to the top mfs try to pretend we are invisible,” Lil Nas X continued on Twitter.a choice — Lil Nas X makes a great point. With all of the accolades he racked up in the last year, leaving him out of a celebration of Black music seems intentional, and it wouldn’t be a stretch to identify some level of queerphobia as the issue.
“At some point after [Nas] got offstage, one of the BET producers came up to me and before I could even open my mouth, he looked at me and said, ‘That was really fucked up’,” said one anonymous member of Lil X’s team. Of course, BET continues toto “to [use] all of our platforms to provide visibility and inclusion for all of the many intersections of the Black community.”
Unfortunately, BET has been known to shy away from and even ignore queer Black creatives for quite some time now. When the
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