Lil Nas X says he planned to "die with the secret" of being gay before coming out
Lil Nas X has discussed his sexuality in a new interview, revealing that he had serious hesitations about coming out as gay.
“The honest truth is, I planned to die with the secret,” he told The Guardian. “But that changed when I became Lil Nas X.”
The rapper came out last year after fans started looking for hidden meanings in his hit ‘Old Town Road’.
“I 100% want to represent the LGBT community,” he continued, “[but] I don’t want to encourage them to do something they don’t 100% want to do. Especially in, like, middle school or high school. Because it’s just super hard.”
“It’s easier for me, I’m not depending on anybody. There’s no one who’s going to kick me out of the house – nobody to start treating me shitty.”
He added: “My family knows now. But it’s not something that’s ever brought up or we speak about. We’re quiet on it. Nobody’s like, ‘Oh, you got a boyfriend?’”
In January, Nas X brushed off a situation in which a rapper who criticised his fashion choices and went on to rail against the gay “agenda”.
