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Topic: Lil Nas X

Lil Nas X attends the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 03, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

Lil Nas X pleads not guilty

Alex Galbraith
Lil Nas X (Getty/Rich Fury)

LAPD arrest Lil Nas X over LA BVDs strut

Alex Galbraith
X/Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk during a visit at the Tesla electric car plant in Gruenheide near Berlin, eastern Germany, on March 13, 2024. (ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Celebs fume at new Twitter/X blue checks

Gabriella Ferrigine
Lil Nas X from “Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero” (Photo courtesy of HBO)

6 Lil Nas X facts from the HBO doc

Joy Saha
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Lil Nas X poses in the press room at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Center on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for MTV)

Lil Nas X's "J Christ" video & backlash

Nardos Haile
Stephen King, Chrissy Teigen and LeBron James (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Twitter)

Twitter's muddled blue checkpocalypse

Melanie McFarland
Lil Nas X attends the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 03, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

Lil Nas X calls out BET's homophobia

Joy Saha
Elton John performs on stage during Global Citizen Live on September 25, 2021 in Paris, France (Marc Piasecki/Getty Images For Global Citizen)

Elton John at 75 isn't slowing down

Annie Zaleski
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Lil Nas X poses in the press room with the awards for Best Music Video and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance during the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Rachel Luna/FilmMagic)

A brief LGBT+ history of camp

Rona Cran - The Conversation
Lil Nas X poses in the press room with the awards for Best Music Video and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance during the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Rachel Luna/FilmMagic)

The pink power of Lil Nas X's trolling

Melanie McFarland
Music video for "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" by Lil Nas X (Sony Entertainment)

Lil Nas X's mockery of demonization

S. Kyle Johnson - The Conversation
Concrete Cowboy (Netflix)

Black cowboys and urban riding clubs

Nick Lehr - The Conversation
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Pete Davidson as Matt Gaetz, Kate McKinnon as Pepé Le Pew, and Chris Redd as Lil Nas X during the "Britney Spears" cold open for April 3, 2021 with Daniel Kaluuya as host (Will Heath/NBC)

SNL spoofs Matt Gaetz & GOP culture war

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
Lil Nas X (Getty/Rich Fury)

Lil Nas X successfully trolls the right

Manuela Lopez Restrepo
Lil Nas X (Getty/Rich Fury)

Lil Nas X & queer power in country

Ashlie D. Stevens
"Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism" by Omise'eke Tinsley (University of Texas Press)

Beyoncé & power of black country mothers

Omise’eke Tinsley
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(Instagram/lilnasx)

Riding "Old Town Road" through Nashville

Rachel Leah
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