Lil Nas X is SLAMMED for tweeting about 'gays in Africa' after Uganda ... trends now

 Lil Nas X has received criticism for tweeting about 'gays in Africa' and wanting to go there after Uganda introduced the death penalty for 'aggravated homosexuality' as it passed bill to jail all gay people.

The 23-year-old Montero hitmaker was at the center of social media furor for his post on Twitter on Wednesday which was just a day after that Ugandan parliament passed the brutal bill.

The singer - born Montero Lamar Hill - wrote: 'where do the gays be in africa I wanna come there.'

DailyMail.com has reached out to reps for the artist and has yet to hear back. 

Lil Nas X was then bombarded with several comments of people who were upset at the timing and message of the post.

One replied: 'Nah bro, stay home.'

Another said: 'The Uganda gays need love and solidarity today [heartbreak emoji]'

One of the wildest responses read 'the gays in africa' with a photo of two skeletons in bags with the skulls on top with wigs on.

On Tuesday, yhe Ugandan parliament has passed a bill to make it a crime to identify as LGBT, punishable with up a prison sentence and even the death penalty for what lawmakers called 'aggravated homosexuality', forcing rights groups to condemn the legislation as 'appalling'.

Ugandans will be banned from 'promoting and abetting' homosexuality as well as from conspiring to engage in same-sex relationships under the new law.

Among the severe penalties outlined in the bill is the death penalty for so-called 'aggravated homosexuality' as well as a sentence of life in prison for having gay sex. 

The law classes 'aggravated homosexuality' as having gay sex with someone under the age of 18 or with someone being HIV positive, among other categories.

The Bill was passed late on Tuesday inside a packed parliamentary chamber in the capital Kampala. 

A roll call was ordered by the House speaker who had repeatedly warned it was necessary to identify those who might oppose the legislation. It was supported by nearly all of the 389 legislators present.

Speaker Anita Among said: 'Congratulations. Whatever we are doing, we are doing it for the people of Uganda.'

Supporters of the new law say a broader range of LGBT activities need to be punished, claiming they threaten traditional values.

An earlier version of the Bill enacted in 2014 was later nullified by a court on procedural grounds. The east African country is notorious for its intolerance of homosexuality - which was criminalised under colonial-era laws.

Amnesty International subsequently urged Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni to veto the anti-gay bill, warning it was 'a grave assault' on LGBTQ people. But he suggested in a recent speech that he supported the Bill, accusing unnamed western nations of 'trying to impose their practices on other people'.

The Bill was introduced last month by an opposition lawmaker who said his goal was to punish 'promotion, recruitment and funding' related to LGBTQ activities.

It creates the offence of 'aggravated homosexuality', which applies in cases of sex relations involving those infected with HIV as well as minors and other categories of vulnerable people.

The Bill also creates the offence of 'attempted homosexuality', punishable with up to 10 years in jail.

Same-sex activity is already punishable with life imprisonment under a colonial-era law targeting 'carnal knowledge against the order of nature', partly the basis of a report by

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