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Orville Peck opens up about beg a gay untry artist, his queer fans and wrg his first love song. * gay cowboy painter *

Growg up gay a ral ranch muny ma me who I am today.

PODST: GROWG UP AS A GAY ROO WBOY SOUTH DAKOTA

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"I'm gay.

That hope was dissipated when the first signs of beg gay started to surface the back of my md before I ever even h puberty. After all, I was raised to thk beg gay was ttable and an abomatn. Perhaps the worst stggle me om hearg my fay and iends mock gay people.

On the si I swallowed my heart along wh the terrifyg thoughts that I might be gay.

MASKED SGER ORVILLE PECK ON BEG OPENLY GAY COUNTRY MIC: ‘WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN THERE’

At 21 years old, I was able to fally adm to myself for the first time — "I am gay.

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Yet pg wh this new burn was no easy task, pecially while attendg a small universy Wtern South Dakota where the only openly gay people were turned to outsts. The pta of the roo team n't be gay — cue the Brokeback Mounta jok. PJ donated his time to wre an amic curiae brief on behalf of the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn of Kentucky supportg the gay platiffs the Kentucky gay marriage se, Love, et al.

He was raised to thk beg gay was ttable and an abomatn but when he me out, he got nothg but support. We talk to him about growg up gay red state Ameri and what he hop to achieve by tellg his story. Peck, who is on a worldwi tour support of his send album, “Bron, ” is also openly gay.

“I started to receive a lot of msag and letters om gay and trans and queer fans, ” Peck says.

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