“Lavenr Country,” Patrick Haggerty’s first album rerd unr the same name, is wily nsired the first untry album rerd by an out gay mician. He died Monday, several weeks after havg a stroke.
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- PATRICK HAGGERTY, TRAILBLAZG GAY UNTRY STAR, DI AT 78
- PATRICK HAGGERTY DI: MAN WILY REGARD AS FIRST OPENLY GAY COUNTRY SGER WAS 78
- GAY UNTRY MIC IN PATRICK HAGGERTY DIED MONDAY AT AGE 78
- FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO DIED OF AIDS
PATRICK HAGGERTY, TRAILBLAZG GAY UNTRY STAR, DI AT 78
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He uld be the dtry-iendly untry star and rema the closet, or he uld e mic to make a statement about what was like beg a gay man a eply discrimatory world.
He chose the latter, and 1973’s “Lavenr Country, ” Haggerty’s first album rerd unr the same name, is now wily nsired the first untry album rerd by an out gay mician.
“Lavenr Country” was a fiantly queer rerd, wh songs like “Cry’ The C**ksuck’ Tears, ” durg a time when few micians any genre were fortable g out as gay. He was kicked out of the Peace Corps the ’60s for beg gay, he told CNN earlier this year. He told Pchfork 2014 that his gay iends Seattle were “who we ma for, and that’s who we played to.
PATRICK HAGGERTY DI: MAN WILY REGARD AS FIRST OPENLY GAY COUNTRY SGER WAS 78
Patrick Haggerty, the trailblazer wily regard as the first openly-gay untry sger, died on Monday surround by his kids and hband. * gay singer that died *
That ll wh Greav was the first step to retroducg Haggerty and Lavenr Country to new listeners, many of whom had been hungry for an out gay untry star.
He performed the songs he’d wrten more than 40 years earlier wh new gay untry stars like Orville Peck and Trixie Mattel, who’ve both found nsirable succs for tegratg their inti to their acts. Patrick Haggerty, the trailblazer wily regard as the first openly gay untry sger, died on Monday surround by his hband and children, acrdg to a statement on his band’s Instagram page.
The self-tled 1973 disc is the first known gay-themed album untry mic history, acrdg to Journal of Country Mic.
GAY UNTRY MIC IN PATRICK HAGGERTY DIED MONDAY AT AGE 78
Wh tracks like “Come Out Sgg” and “Cry’ The C*cks***g Tears, ” was fund and released by Gay Communy Social Servic of Seattle.
Lavenr Country rned briefly 2000 after a proment article on gay untry micians sparked renewed tert. “Cry’ The C*cks***g Tears” was clud the 2012 pilatn album Strong Love: Songs of Gay Liberatn 1972-1981.
FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO DIED OF AIDS
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Gay untry mic in Patrick Haggerty died Monday at age 78.
Haggerty broke ground as the first openly gay untry mic artist wh the group Lavenr Country. He first began to unrstand he was gay while growg up on a dairy farm Washgton State the 1950s.