Country mic has a lengthy reputatn for beg tensely homophobic. Gay untry sgers were, sadly, not warmly weled. Still, some stood out loud and proud.
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
* female gay country singer *
The chos even exprs acceptance of weed and homosexualy, topics that are unfortunately still taboo mastream untry, pecially when sung by a woman. 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.
9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
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.
QUEER COUNTRY: LBIAN AND GAY MASTREAM COUNTRY ARTISTS? (BOOK EXCERPT)
In 2014, the producer end up rereleasg the rerd, once only available by orrg om the backpag of Seattle’s gay newspaper.