Contents:
- ANNE HEGERTY SHAR LOVE LIFE UPDATE AFTER TURNG DOWN GAY ADMIRERS ‘I’M DOG FE’
- PATRICK HAGGERTY, ‘LOST PNEER’ OF GAY COUNTRY MIC, DI AT 78
- GAY'S THE WORD BOOKSHOP SOLD ‘OBSCENE MATERIAL’ – ARCHIVE, 1985
- L-HEGARTY-IS-GAY
ANNE HEGERTY SHAR LOVE LIFE UPDATE AFTER TURNG DOWN GAY ADMIRERS ‘I’M DOG FE’
People news picturShow all 18Spokperson for transgenr rightsWhile Hegarty has bee a vol spokperson for trans people, she has always remaed wary of speakg on behalf of the whole muny or homogenisg varyg experienc. ”She has been vol about the fact she would like someone transgenr to play her a film of her life, and once said: “I am sick of how the movie dtry has tertg gay or transgenred people played by heterosexuals. Her admissn after she prevly said many of her fans assumed she is gay.
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Warren/Associated PrsPatrick Haggerty, who 1973 released an album of untry songs about same-sex romance that sold only 1, 000 pi and seemed sted for eternal obscury until, four s later, s redisvery brought him renown as the first openly gay untry sger, died on Oct. Haggerty’s youth hardly acknowledged the existence of homosexualy, and when did, the referenc were oblique and mockg. Haggerty the unual — he equently lled “absurd” — clatn to make gay untry had been spired to e out of the closet after learng about the 1969 Stonewall uprisg New York, creded wh igng the gay-rights movement.
PATRICK HAGGERTY, ‘LOST PNEER’ OF GAY COUNTRY MIC, DI AT 78
He soon joed a lol Seattle chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front, which helped form a gay muny center and held 1972, he lnched himself on what would bee his most endurg form of activism: creatg a band lled Lavenr Country, sentially a solo project which he got help om a few iends Seattle. He wrote most of the songs, played atic guar and sang lead on the group’s but album, also lled “Lavenr Country, ” which was sponsored by a lol gay social servic group.
The mic sometim ma for a ntrast wh the lyrics, which uld be mpy — “Back the Closet Aga” imaged a revolutn which “a battaln of gay men brought up the rear/Packg two grenas each brassiere” — but there were also songs of prott and lament. ”Lavenr Country attracted lol attentn, performg at gay pri paras Seattle and San Francis and eventually sellg out a n of 1, 000 pi of s album. Haggerty “the lost pneer of out gay untry mic.
GAY'S THE WORD BOOKSHOP SOLD ‘OBSCENE MATERIAL’ – ARCHIVE, 1985
Haggerty’s ballad of gay cisg, “I Can’t Shake the Stranger Out of You. ” Lavenr Country’s first new album 49 world had changed: Now a major untry star like Brandi Carlile n be a gay marriage, and an openly gay man like Lil Nas X n have a untry h wh “Old Town Road.
Wherever he went he found young micians, many of them gay or transgenr, to acpany him. In recent years he had been performg his s-old mic on tour wh young micians, many of them gay or Bent, via Getty ImagPatrick Ambrose Haggerty was born on Sept.
Haggerty died soon thereafter, when Patrick was he earned a bachelor’s gree soclogy om Wtern Washgton Universy 1966, he joed the Peace Corps; he was kicked out the same year for beg gay.
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The Haggerty fay doctor sent him to a mental hospal, but he checked himself out when he realized that he was not gog to be cured of homosexualy. Haggerty me to embrace radil polics, nng unsuccsfully 1991 for the Washgton State Senate as a socialist on what he lled “a Black-Gay uny slate, ” joed by members of the Natn of addn to Mr. ’”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 28 of the New York edn wh the headle: Patrick Haggerty, ‘Lost Pneer’ of Gay Country Mic, Di at 78.
A ctoms officer taed a book om the Uned Stat about the Aids epimic and novels by Tennsee Williams, Gore Vidal and Christopher Isherwood a raid on Gay’s the Word bookshop April 1984, a urt heard officer, Mr David Odd, was givg evince on the fourth day of mtal proceedgs which eight directors and one staff member of Gay’s the Word bookshop Bloomsbury, London, are charged wh dulently nspirg to eva the prohibns on the import of cent or obscene material. He thought that he might have taed the book, which is referred to the charg, ‘bee had the name of a homosexual thor on the ver’ agreed that he had no guil as to what uld be nsired cent or proceedgs to ci whether the se should be sent to Crown Court are expected to end charg agast the bookshop were eventually dropped 1986. L-hegarty-is-gay.