![]() ![]() Then after the BET awards, he responded on Twitter to complaints about his kiss by joking that he would have sex on stage next time. This is clearly about more than just provocation, though: just before Montero dropped, he posted a letter to his 14-year-old self on social media, saying that he’d made the song to help normalise queerness, and queer sexuality. "I know we promised to never be 'that' type of gay person, I know we promised to die with the secret," he wrote. ![]() "But this will open doors for many other queer people to simply exist". The rise of Lil Nas X is representative of an era where gay sex is taking up more space in music than ever. Other younger pop stars who have put their sexuality front and centre in their work recently include Olly Alexander, the former frontman and now sole member of British band Years & Years. He also subverted the homophobic association between homosexuality and sin in the lyrics and video of his 2018 single Sanctify, a song about sex with a man who is still in the closet.
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