Gay Country Sgers - Out and Proud the South |

Contents:

• HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD
• 9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• QUEER COUNTRY: LBIAN AND GAY MASTREAM COUNTRY ARTISTS? (BOOK EXCERPT)

HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD

The chos even exprs acceptance of weed and homosexualy, topics that are unfortunately still taboo mastream untry, pecially when sung by a woman.

9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

That he’s gay is “the least tertg thg about [him], ” Peck said. Sgg gay love songs once killed the reers of artists like Patrick Haggerty, whose band Lavenr Country 1973 released what’s wily nsired the first untry album rerd by an out gay performer. Osborne, one half of the Brothers Osbourne, me out last year, the first out gay artist signed to a major untry label.

In 1973, years after the Peace Corps kicked him out for beg gay, he released his first rerd.

” His lyrics, fiant and heartwrenchg, nmned the racism and homophobia that supprsed Haggerty and his bandmat. In 2014, the producer end up rereleasg the rerd, once only available by orrg om the backpag of Seattle’s gay newspaper. He views Lavenr Country as a “revolutnary obligatn” he’s bound to, now that he’s fally got a platform and a willg dience for his songs about racism, homophobia and the fltl Amerin society.

QUEER COUNTRY: LBIAN AND GAY MASTREAM COUNTRY ARTISTS? (BOOK EXCERPT)

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 .