Here Are Gay Country Sgers Who Stood Out Loud and Proud

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• ‘I’M HERE, I’M QUEER AND I’M COUNTRY’: THE TOP 5 GAY COUNTRY SONGS
• 11 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• GAY COUNTRY
• HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD
• GAY COUNTRY BY BRIAN FALDUTO GAY COUNTRY BY BRIAN FALDUTO GET THE MIC: SPOTIFY APPLE MIC ITUN AMAZON PANDORA DEEZER BUY OM ARTIST NEW MIC COMG SOON — 3/10/2023 RELEASED 2023 ALBUM TRACKS

‘I’M HERE, I’M QUEER AND I’M COUNTRY’: THE TOP 5 GAY COUNTRY SONGS

Though their archetypal work together has mostly leaned toward folk-rock, the Indigo Girls have long spun stori of southern queer liv, and a new one, "Country Rad, " wrten and sung by the duo's Ey Saliers, pats a portra of a smalltown, gay fan for whom mastream untry songs are a source of both fantasy and excln. Loamlands, the mil vehicle of nonbary North Carola songwrer Kym Register, has s repertoire a somber lament of the historic, regnal slayg of two gay men.

Ty Herndon me out as gay 2014, havg prevly earned a handful of No. ” That same year, Billy Gilman (who found succs untry mic as a child wh songs cludg “One Voice”) also me out publicly as gay.

Sce then, the untry mic dtry has slowly seen more openly gay artists and songwrers fd succs.

11 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

In the 2000s and 2010s, songwrers Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, who are both openly gay, began havg succs as wrers. “We Shall Be Free” — and s celebry-filled mic vio — took aim at a number of social issu, cludg homophobia, eedom of relign, world hunger and racism.

Includ on the group Lavenr Country’s groundbreakg, gay-themed, eponymo 1973 album, this song is a mil ray of sunshe, as the sger basks the happs of a new relatnship.

Brothers Osborne’s TJ Osborne me out as gay an terview wh TIME 2021, and soon, the siblg duo released this song, crafted as a song to TJ’s younger self, filled wh enuragement and wisdom. While the stereotype is that untry mic is about as far om gay-iendly as you n get, that’s not always the se.

GAY COUNTRY

That may be due to the lyrics, however, which tell the story of a gay man cshg on his straight iend.

Though Sublette’s not gay himself, he lived on Christopher Street New York Cy, next door to a gay untry bar. And hey, was good enough for Pansy Divisn to ver for a Stop Homophobia pilatn 7″! Freddy Freeman’s “I’m Here, I’m Queer and I’m Country” feels like a manifto for the gay untry mic fan.

While Mgrav herself is straight, the song was -wrten wh Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, both openly gay Nashville songwrers. ” While the song was censored when she performed for the CMA Awards broadst, wasn’t the reference to homosexualy that was cut, but the reference to smokg a jot.

HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD

No article on gay untry mic would be plete whout a mentn of Pat Haggerty, the lear of the first gay untry band Lavenr Country.

Rerd for a private-prs LP 1973, “Cry’ The Cocksuckg Tears” is a fearls prott song agast homophobia and sexism. After the wife of untry sger Jason Alan ma an ignorant post last year thankg her parents for not "forcg her" to be trans when she was a tomboy, other sgers, like Maren Morris, clapped back, sayg there's no room for homophobia and transphobia untry mic and that those clgg onto need to change or get out of the way. "But there's a very sid culture of people feelg very fortable beg transphobic and homophobic and racist, and that they n wrap a joke and no one will ever ll them out for .

Me out as gay 2021 and ntu to release hs wh his band.

GAY COUNTRY BY BRIAN FALDUTO GAY COUNTRY BY BRIAN FALDUTO GET THE MIC: SPOTIFY APPLE MIC ITUN AMAZON PANDORA DEEZER BUY OM ARTIST NEW MIC COMG SOON — 3/10/2023 RELEASED 2023 ALBUM TRACKS

One of untry mic's greatt songwrers and producers is gay. Their 1973 self-tled album is nsired the first known gay-themed untry mic album.

When he me out as gay, and also revealed that when he had been sexually abed by an uncle, he was disowned om his fay.

Herndon is nsired by most to be the first mastream male untry artist to e out as gay when he did so 2014.