Houston’s Normal Anomaly receives funding thanks to Lil Nas X’s ‘baby registry’
dallasvoice.comLil Nas X accepts a Grammy Award for his single “Old Town Road” in 2020. ( (Chris Pizzello/Associated Press) The Normal Anomaly Initiative Inc., a Houston-based nonprofit serving Black LGBTQ people, is among the 13 organizations receiving funding from Lil Nas X’s Montero baby registry, an effort the Grammy winner created last September to celebrate the release of his chart-topping album.
Today the singer and Normal Anomaly Initiative announced that his Baby Registry has raised nearly $500,000 for those 13 organizations.
Nas X created his baby registry last September when his album launched — at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart — connecting each of the album’s 13 songs to a different organization on the Gilead Sciences COMPASS Initiative, encouraging his fans to donate to the effort. “Communities all across the South, like my home state of Georgia, are being transformed by the work of COMPASS grantees,” Nas X said. “The Montero baby registry was created to send resources to grassroots groups serving the most vulnerable.
Funds raised will go to people living with HIV and inspire a new generation of leaders who will keep pushing for HIV education and one day, a cure.” The Normal Anomaly Initiative Inc.
