And, you know, Mykki Blanco and all these people.Īnd 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. And I said to someone at MSNBC, you know, Montero comes out in like 10 days - what's there to talk about it there? I can bring it up there and just frame this as a larger history of Black queer representation and how hard that march to this moment has been and how people like Michael K. And in the midst of us talking about that, I was just so sad because Black queer death is all we talk about.
Williams, the actor who passed away recently, from The Wire and Lovecraft Country. What was really the thing that moved me to write the piece was a conversation about Michael K. But I never really understood the gravity of the situation until it had happened.
When I was at BuzzFeed, we did things with him, which was really fun. I do love Lil Nas X - I've always loved him. And I do believe that, and it was really shocking to feel that much pride. Zach Stafford: I’d never been so proud of someone before.