Lil Nas X chooses to be be so open because he wants “every other artist to feel the same way,” he said. We don’t wanna know what happens behind closed doors, or we don’t want you to express that.'” He added: “It’s like, ‘Be gay without being gay. “It’s always been, ‘Okay, if you’re gay, this needs to be sanitized. “I feel like I’m definitely much more ‘out there’ with it,” he said of his sexuality.
Lil Nas X then suggested that gay artists in the music industry are required to censor themselves in a way that he refused to do. I’m already like the number one artist in the world right now.” He added that while there was “definitely some fear” about his decision, “It’s like, I’m not doing it for attention.
