Lil Nas X appears to come out as gay in tweets marking end of Pride month

Rapper Lil Nas X appeared to come out as gay to mark the end of Pride month.

The Old Town Road star seemed to address his sexuality in a series of tweets shared yesterday, shortly after he performed his breakout track alongside Miley Cyrus and her father Billy Ray at Glastonbury.

“Some of y’all already know, some of y’all don’t care,” he wrote on Twitter alongside the video for his track C7osure, adding: “But before this month ends I want y’all to listen closely to c7osure.”

He signed off the post with a rainbow emoji in an apparent reference to the LGBTQ flag.

The song sees the rapper (real name Montero Lamar Hill) address his need to “be free,” with lyrics including: “This is what I gotta do, can’t be regretting when I’m old.”

Elsewhere in the single, he raps: “I know, I know, I know it don’t feel like it’s time / But I look back at this moment, I’ll see that I’m fine / I know, I know, I know it don’t feel like it’s time / I set boundaries for myself, it’s time to cross the line.”

The star then shared a tweet which showed the artwork for his EP alongside a close-up of a skyscraper lit up in rainbow colours.

“Deada** thought i made it obvious,” he wrote.

Standard Online has contacted the rapper’s representatives for further comment.

Lil Nas received thousands of messages of support from fans following his post, including a post from YouTuber James Charles, who wrote: “Really happy for you dude.”

After performing his biggest hit alongside the Cyruses yesterday, the 20-year-old revealed that his “insane” Glastonbury cameo marked his “first time in another country.”

Old Town Road has spent 12 weeks at the top of the Billboard 100 chart in the US in 2019.

It broke weekly streaming records when Lil Nas released a remix featuring country star Billy Ray, topping the chart with 143 million US streams. The record was previously held by Drake’s In My Feelings, which notched up 116.2 million streams on the week of July 28 2018.