Charli XCX Yells ‘Gay Rights’ While Holding Poppers. No, Really!

It sounds like a joke, but she totally did it.

Mikelle Street

Mikelle is the former editorial director of digital for PrideMedia, guiding digital editorial and social across Out, The Advocate, Pride.com, Out Traveler, and Plus. After starting as a freelancer for Out in 2013, he joined the staff as Senior Editor working across print and digital in 2018. In early 2021 he became Out's digital director, marking a pivot to content that centered queer and trans stories and figures, exclusively. In September 2021, he was promoted to editorial director of PrideMedia. He has written cover stories on Ricky Martin, Miss Fame, Nyle DiMarco, Jeremy O. Harris, Law Roach, and Symone.

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September 15 2019 12:18 PM EST

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The "gay rights" meme -- which is essentially calling anything tangential to, or of interest for the gay community an example of "gay rights" -- is a bit out of control. And that's on all of us. Here at out, we've gone so far as to make it into headlines. But if anything warranted, it's this new video of Charli XCX.

\u201cThe incomparable Charli XCX \n(yelling \u201cgay rights\u201d holding poppers)\u201d
— Bobby (@Bobby) 1568502912

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In a clip uploaded to Twitter, the pop star hoists a bottle of poppers -- Rush, naturally -- into the air and literally yells "gay rights." That's it. That's the tweet. That's the story.

Why exactly she did this, we do not know, but Bobby Caruso, the writer who posted the video, apparently is in possession of this particular bottle now. Charli went on to post the clip on her own Instagram, which obviously brought in a flood of ~fun~ alternate captions from fans. They do not disappoint.

She even signed a fan's poppers, seemingly at the same event.

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— Charli (@Charli) 1568575490

"This is iconic tbh" she replied when he posted the photos to Twitter.

For those who are falsely under the impression that the singer doesn't know what she's doing, or what she's holding, you would be mistaken! Not only is sniffing poppers while listening to her music, clearly a part of the culture of her fandom, but she's even considered as a business opportunity.