9 Country Mic Artists Who Have Come Out As Gay | Whiskey Riff

Contents:

• 9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD
• COUNTRY ARTISTS TY HERNDON AND BILLY GILMAN E OUT AS GAY
• COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
• GAY MALE COUNTRY MIC SGERS YOU NEED TO KNOW
• THE ROAD TO UNTRY MIC’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STAR

9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

In se you missed the news om last year, the Brothers Osborne ontman me out as gay, sayg his fay and close iends have known for que some time, but he wants to be his full self at this pot his reer. Here are 9 untry artists/members of the untry mic world who have e out as gay over the years.

HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD

Country mic has a lengthy and not-so-proud reputatn for beg tensely homophobic. Gay untry sgers were, sadly, not warmly weled.

COUNTRY ARTISTS TY HERNDON AND BILLY GILMAN E OUT AS GAY

For stance, Patrick Haggerty, whose band lled Lavenr Country, released what is wily believed to be the first explicly gay rerd 1973, ultimately leadg the band to fa to obscury. From gay untry stars sgg os about lovg who you want to untry artists enuragg listeners not to be aaid to embrace their genr inty, the genre – both s artists and s fans – has fally reached a place where acceptance is the new standard.

So, today, let’s take a look at some of the most celebrated gay untry sgers – om Grammy Award-wng stars Brandi Carlile and Lil Nas X to T.

Osborne, who is the first gay artist signed to a major untry label. Brandi Carlile spent most of her childhood beg told that “to be gay was a one-way ticket to hell.

COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY

” She even had never met another gay person – until she watched Ellen DeGener’ historic 1997 “I’m gay” episo, which she rerd on a VHS tape so she uld watch repeatedly. It was then that Carlile me to terms wh the fact that she was gay. However, thgs changed at the height of his reer when he me out as gay durg the last day of Pri Month 2019 through a seri of tweets and his song lled “c7osure.

In 2014, the Nashville artist revealed to PEOPLE a part of himself he has kept secret for his entire reer: beg a “happy gay man. Herndon said that Anthony Robbs’ semar 2009 sparked the urage for him to e out, thkg how his story might help terrified gay youth.

GAY MALE COUNTRY MIC SGERS YOU NEED TO KNOW

“There is somethg very gay about the imagery of , ” the sger said. Chely Wright beme one of the first untry sgers to e out as gay openly. However, Oladokun was silently battlg si as she tried to rencile her fah wh the fact that she was gay, which she had been aware of at a young age.

Osborne, one half of the popular untry mic duo Brothers Osborne, had known he was gay sce “before I even unrstood what was.

While he went through some hardships, like feelg very isolated his early days Nashville, he found the right moment to publicly e out as gay as the band’s reer picked up – and his announcement went off really well. He has sce been nsired the pneerg gay untry mician.

THE ROAD TO UNTRY MIC’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STAR

Haggerty knew he was gay om an early age. In his early 20s, he was discharged om the Peace Corps for beg gay, leadg him to bee a queer rights activist. ” The album was wily regard as the first-ever openly gay untry rerd.

As an openly gay man workg untry mic, Paisley Fields is boldly beg himself as he ntu to drive forward an often-perceived nservative mic genre.