{"id":806149,"date":"2020-04-07T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=979758"},"modified":"2020-04-07T13:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T19:00:30","slug":"a-year-later-lil-nas-x-shares-the-challenges-of-coming-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/a-year-later-lil-nas-x-shares-the-challenges-of-coming-out\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year Later, Lil Nas X Shares the Challenges of Coming Out"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despitethe endless memes and savvy digital practices of Lil Nas X<\/a>, the real-life of Montero Lamar Hill has remained relatively guarded since his meteoric rise to fame. In June, the \u201cOld Town Road\u201d singer shared lyrics to \u201cC7sure\u201d and the rainbo-featuring album artwork to come out<\/a> to his followers during Pride Month of last year. \u201cThe honest truth is, I planned to die with the secret,\u201d Nas says in a recent Guardian<\/em><\/a> profile, which details the complexities that coming out brought to his life. \u201cBut that changed when I became Lil Nas X.\u201d<\/p>\n

Almost a year after the original announcement, Nas explained that he wants to represent the LGBT community, while also acknowledging how he\u2019s dealt with his family\u2019s response to the news. \u201cMy family knows now. But it\u2019s not something that\u2019s ever brought up or we speak about. We\u2019re quiet on it. Nobody\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, you got a boyfriend,’\u201d he explains. \u201cI don\u2019t want it to be something we never talk about. Because what about the kids in my family? I would like it to be a healthy medium between, \u2018Who are you fucking?\u2019 and just not saying anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later in the profile, the 20-year-old singer discusses that, after he came out, the Pete Buttigieg campaign asked him to be in a video, and why he turned down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know his political history or motives,\u201d Nas said. The only thing I know\u2026 Wasn\u2019t he from the Democratic party? All I know is he\u2019s from the Democratic party and he\u2019s gay. So it\u2019s like\u2026 I don\u2019t want to base my support off, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re gay, I\u2019m going to support you.\u2019 Yeah, you\u2019re gay. But I don\u2019t know everything you\u2019re planning when you\u2019re running the entire country. But, yeah. That was the reason I said no.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Despitethe endless memes and savvy digital practices of Lil Nas X, the real-life of Montero Lamar Hill has remained relatively guarded since his meteoric rise to fame. In June, the \u201cOld Town Road\u201d singer shared lyrics to \u201cC7sure\u201d and the rainbo-featuring album artwork to come out to his followers during Pride Month of last year. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 23:29:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}