everything happens for a reason tho lol,' he tweeted. JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images Friday, October 11 is National Coming Out Day a holiday dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ people and their process of coming out to their communities, their families, or themselves. 'New ones had to learn the routine in 24 hours, and then i ended up ripping my pants and couldn’t finish. Lil Nas X came out as gay in a series of tweets in 2019. On a more serious note, Lil Nas X noted to fans on social media that he was 'afraid to even perform' at first: He and his team ran into a speedbump two weeks into the rehearsal process after one dancer tested positive for COVID-19, forcing all six of them to drop out. 'I'm like, 'I literally cannot leave, or everybody here will see everything. You have to get ready for the next performance,' ' he said. Once the performance ended, many on the crew and among his backup dancers didn't realize what happened, and told Lil Nas X he needed to leave the stage for the show to continue. 'At the end of the performance, the dancers are supposed to touch me and tug on me or whatever, and they were tugging on the pants, and I was like, 'Please, God, no,' ' he said. 'Boom, I feel air,' he recalled Monday on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.' 'I was like, 'There's definitely a breeze going on.'