Patrick Haggerty, trailblazg gay untry star, di at 78 | CNN

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• PATRICK HAGGERTY, TRAILBLAZG GAY UNTRY STAR, DI AT 78
• 9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD

PATRICK HAGGERTY, TRAILBLAZG GAY UNTRY STAR, DI AT 78

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.

9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

He told Pchfork 2014 that his gay iends Seattle were “who we ma for, and that’s who we played to. 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.

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.

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HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD

He me out as gay last Febary makg him, the words of wikipedia, “the first openly gay artist signed to a major untry mic label”.