On Sunday (27 June), the rapper paid homage to Michael Jackson’s legendary Remember the Time music video as he performed his worldwide smasher, Montero (Call Me By Your Name), in a pharaoh-inspired skirt and armour with a squad of topless male dancers.
At the end of his performance, Lil Nas X wrapped his arms around two of his dancers and passionately locked lips with one of them – it wasn’t a peck on the lips either, it was a full-on make out session.
It had a tremendous impact on fans, particularly those who are Black and queer, with one writing: “Lil Nas X is the Black gay popstar I needed to see as a kid.
The fearlessness it takes to be so decidedly queer in front of a notoriously homophobic audience. I needed that.” Another said: “The