“There’s a lot of anger there, similar to how very masculine straight men get mad at very femme men — they’re like, ‘How dare you be a man and be this way?’”
So let's dive right into it! Recently we talked to Zach Stafford about, his new album, and the impact he’s making on pop-stardom. Here's some of what we learned:
And it's gotten us to a moment in which Lil Nas X can release a very gay, very Black pop album, and everyone's expecting it to be the album of the year. So when it happened and it was 11 o'clock Pacific Time and I'd heard the whole album, we're finishing up edits to go live in the morning, I said to myself, “Oh, this is actually good. Thank God.” I was so worried, like with so many gay things, it was not going to be good.
, that Black queer people are being allowed to exist. And he grew up in that moment. And he doesn't have the baggage that even I have about growing up and being Black and queer in Atlanta — where I partially grew up, where he's from. And through that, he's become so free. And I think we all connect to that authenticity and the joy of it all, because as I said earlier, it's just this moment of"Let's look at how happy that we are here at this moment.
So what I think is going to happen is young, more young people are going to step into their full selves thanks to a Lil Nas X and thanks to Troye Sivan, too, and Adam Lambert, we can never forget who famously was blacklisted for kissing a man. And I think they're going to be able to create even more radically cool, interesting things that we've never seen before because they don't have to do what was done before they can create new paths.
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