![]() Still, if there is a takeaway here, say experts, it should be this: Queer kids need adult support now as much as ever. When rapper Boosie Badazz became the latest person to unleash a homophobic and since-deleted Twitter rant against Lil Nas X - telling him "if you commit suicide, you would do this world a huge favor, nobody wants you here" - many people were shocked at his cruelty.īut for bullied LGBTQ youth (not to mention adults who were scarred by years of harassment throughout childhood and adolescence) the words were all too familiar, serving as a potent reminder that despite legal and societal advances regarding LGBTQ people, homophobia is alive and well - even for Grammy-winning, multimillion-dollar-net-worth celebrities. ![]() Lil Nas X has been taunted "in the same way kids in school get taunted every single day across this country.” (Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)
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