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.
9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
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.
COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
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. 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.
WA’S PNEERG GAY UNTRY BAND LAVENR COUNTRY RELEAS FIRST NEW ALBUM 50 YEARS
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.