Here Are Gay Country Sgers Who Stood Out Loud and Proud

Contents:

• HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD
• COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
• ARE DAN AND SHAY GAY? DID THE COUNTRY MIC DUO ADDRS THE RUMORS?

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 MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE 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.

ARE DAN AND SHAY GAY? DID THE COUNTRY MIC DUO ADDRS THE RUMORS?

Brandi Carlile spent most of her childhood beg told that “to be gay was a one-way ticket to hell. ” 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.