Seattle band Lavenr Country released what's now nsired the first gay-themed untry album 1973. It didn't fd much of an dience then. But is now.
Contents:
- LAVENR COUNTRY, WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY COUNTRY BAND, COM TO AT
- 9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
- COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
- WA’S PNEERG GAY UNTRY BAND LAVENR COUNTRY RELEAS FIRST NEW ALBUM 50 YEARS
LAVENR COUNTRY, WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY COUNTRY BAND, COM TO AT
After the wife of untry sger Jason Alan ma an ignorant post last year thankg her parents for not "forcg her" to be trans when she was a tomboy, other sgers, like Maren Morris, clapped back, sayg there's no room for homophobia and transphobia untry mic and that those clgg onto need to change or get out of the way. "But there's a very sid culture of people feelg very fortable beg transphobic and homophobic and racist, and that they n wrap a joke and no one will ever ll them out for .
Me out as gay 2021 and ntu to release hs wh his band. One of untry mic's greatt songwrers and producers is gay. Their 1973 self-tled album is nsired the first known gay-themed untry mic album.
When he me out as gay, and also revealed that when he had been sexually abed by an uncle, he was disowned om his fay. Herndon is nsired by most to be the first mastream male untry artist to e out as gay when he did so 2014. The album explored the tersectn of beg gay and relig and her song "Lovg You" is a self-acceptance anthem about lovg who you love no matter Getty Imag.
9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
In 1973, Patrick Haggerty rerd and released his band Lavenr Country’s eponymo but album, which is nsired the first openly gay-themed album untry mic history.
Ahead of the show, the Chronicle chatted wh “The Grandfather of Gay Country Mic” about Lavenr Country’s nontradnal roots, the rise of queer untry, and his still-burng radil passn. I say that bee moms are famo for lovg their gay sons, but ’s our dads who give a hard time, but my dad didn’t.
… In tth, was my father and my relatnship wh him that led me to be a place where I uld wre the world's first gay untry album. When I realized that I was gay – actually, pre-Stonewall – I had to make a choice: I uld go to Nashville and hi myself and try and have a reer untry mic, or I uld be a revolutnary screamg Marxist bch. If I chose to be the first person to wre a gay untry album and was gog to be full of screamg Marxist bch stuff, then I wasn’t gog to have a reer untry mic.
COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
“When I realized that I was gay I had to make a choice: I uld go to Nashville and hi myself and try and have a reer untry mic, or I uld be a revolutnary screamg Marxist bch.
AC: Lavenr Country’s release was ma possible by support om a grassroots nonprof, Gay Communy Social Servic of Seattle, at the time. AC: Wh the last 5-10 years we've seen more openly gay untry artists – there's a level of visibily that wasn’t there before. Also, gog om beg a nobody and beg happy wh that to beg “The Grandfather of Gay Country Mic” – which is explodg – part of is great, but there’s an unrbelly of beg turned to an in and the mic dtry.
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.
WA’S PNEERG GAY UNTRY BAND LAVENR COUNTRY RELEAS FIRST NEW ALBUM 50 YEARS
hen Brandy Clark lnched a untry-mic rerdg reer 2013, there wasn’t any template to follow for an openly gay artist Nashville. Clark has been at the foreont of that shift and creds her iendship wh Shane McAnally — one of Nashville’s most succsful songwrers, who is also gay — wh givg her the nfince to pursue a solo reer.