There are a few rappers on the down low.ilow. But I’m just going to joke back with them.” I’m not angry or anything, y’know, because I understand how they want that reaction. Learning the internet over the past couple of years, so it’s I used to be that person being negative. When asked about the homophobic backlash to his coming out, he said, “I’m already getting it. Especially within the hip-hop and country community… is not really accepted in either, so…” And I also, I feel like, opening doors for more people who… that they feel more comfortable pretty much. But it was like, I don’t want to just, live my entire life, especially how I just got to where I am, not doing what I want to do. It was just something that I was never just ever, just like taking to the grave or something. “I kinda revealed it, y’know? That I am gay. In their talk, the rapper said he was gay and added “I don’t have anything to hide.” He is gay, and he says the homophobic backlash isn’t getting to him because he used to be similarly negative online.Ĭharlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty, co-hosts of BBC’s Breakfast program, chatted with Lil Nas X this morning. “I always just say gay because it just kind of covers it or queer because I think the keyword is cool.After cryptic tweets suggesting his queer identity, 20-year-old rapper Lil Nas X was finally asked point-blank by the media whether he’s gay or what. Her name is Kylie, and so I say that I’m Ky-sexual,” she told PEOPLE in April.
Now, the Dance Moms alum has said that she’s “technically” pansexual, but she is also comfortable simply calling herself gay, queer, or a label inspired by her loved one: “I have this joke. Initially, Siwa was hesitant to put a label on her sexuality, simply identifying as LGBTQ. “I’m so proud of you sis,” Hilton wrote on her Instagram Story, which Siwa reposted, while DeGeneres commented on Siwa’s T-shirt post with a red heart emoji. “It was never scary to me to put out to the world that I was happy or I was in love.”Īt the time of her coming out, Siwa received online support from many celebrities, including Paris Hilton, Joe Jonas, and Ellen DeGeneres. In a separate TikTok, Siwa lip-synced the bridge to Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way,” specifically the lyrics, “No matter gay, straight, or bi, lesbian, transgender life, I’m on the right track, baby, I was born to survive.” Days later, she posted a photo on Twitter sporting a T-shirt that read “Best Gay Cousin Ever,” leading fans to speculate that it was her way of coming out. Siwa turned heads in January when she made a video with The Pride House, a collective of LGBTQ TikTok creators. We talked for a while and I got to tell her everything. This was before Kylie and I were on FaceTime every single night sleeping. “She was like, ‘Oh, my God, I’m so happy for you. “The night that I came out, Iggy Azalea actually texted me,” Siwa recalls. The night she made her big announcement, she heard from out-and-proud Lil Nas X as well as celebrity allies like Kardashian, Lil Uzi Vert, and Iggy Azalea. In a Pride interview with Entertainment Weekly, published on June 1, the singer opened up about her decision to come out, which was inspired by her girlfriend Kylie Prew. Siwa just revealed that Kim Kardashian and Lil Nas X reached out after her coming out, among other surprising celebs. JoJo Siwa garnered a lot more support from the world than she initially thought she would receive after coming out as part of the LGBTQ+ community in January 2021, and some of that support came from unexpected places.