Super Bowl halftime performer Bad Bunny is an LGBTQ supporter, and homophobes hate it
Bad Bunny has been an outspoken supporter of gay people and the LGBTQ community. He is the Super Bowl LX halftime show headliner. The post Super Bowl halftime performer Bad Bunny is an LGBTQ supporter, and homophobes hate it appeared first on Outsports.
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Singer Bad Bunny is the selection by the NFL to headline the halftime show at Super Bowl LX. Gay people are cheering the selection, while homophobes and many political conservatives are pissed.
If you don’t know Bad Bunny, he is a Puerto Rican singer, rapper and songwriter. He’s one of the most influential Latin artists today, known for blending reggaeton, Latin trap, hip hop, rock and even punk into his music.
And yes, he’s also willing to test gender norms and even kiss a man on stage. As Pamela Avila David Oliver wrote for USA Today a couple years ago:
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“He’s also kissed a male backup dancer onstage. He dressed in drag for the ‘Yo Perreo Sola’ music video and wore a skirt on a ‘Tonight Show’ appearance. He straight-up told the Los Angles Times, ‘I don’t know if in 20 years I will like a man. One never knows in life.'”
He also won GLAAD’s Vanguard Award a couple years ago, an acknowledgement of his full embrace of the LGBTQ community on the world stage.
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“GLAAD’s Vanguard Award is presented to media professionals who have made a significant difference in promoting equality and acceptance of LGBTQ people,” GLAAD wrote at the time. “This year, the award went to Bad Bunny for championing queer visibility in Latinx culture.”
He has also made some political statements. He said recently that he didn’t include the United States in his current tour because of ICE.
All of this has brought attacks against the NFL for selecting Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl LX Halftime Show headliner.
They chose Bad Bunny, an artist who is an outspoken critic of the current administration and literally cancelled a US tour over fears of ICE raids.
They knew exactly what they were doing. The meltdown this will cause is the entire point. pic.twitter.com/kmwGCtd3uF— rantzine (@rant_zine) September 29, 2025
And make no mistake, some have criticized Bad Bunny for taking the money and fame from a league that essentially banned Colin Kaepernick.
Yet while some homophobic “fans” claim this is another step the NFL is taking to lose credibility… the NFL’s viewership has never been higher.
It seems the people in New York making the big decisions know what they’re doing.
Not to be lost in the conversation: Super Bowl LX — held February 8, 2026 — will be in the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco was one of the main epicenters of the struggle for gay rights in the 1960s and 1970s. So much so that San Francisco became equated with “gay” in many circles.
So it’s fitting that the NFL would select an artist with strong ties to the LGBTQ community.
Editor’s note: Johnny Lopez contributed to this reporting.
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