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’
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PATRICK HAGGERTY, ‘LOST PNEER’ OF GAY COUNTRY MIC, DI AT 78
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GAY'S THE WORD BOOKSHOP SOLD ‘OBSCENE MATERIAL’ – ARCHIVE, 1985
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. 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.
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”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.
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.