Here Are Gay Country Sgers Who Stood Out Loud and Proud

Contents:

• T.J. OSBORNE, OPENLY GAY ARTIST ADVOTG FOR CLIVY, CELEBRAT CMA W BY KISSG BOYIEND
• 9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD
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T.J. OSBORNE, OPENLY GAY ARTIST ADVOTG FOR CLIVY, CELEBRAT CMA W BY KISSG BOYIEND

Nashville native Cys is an unniable pop and rock star, fond of sgg vers by the Cranberri and Soundgarn, but her gut list at the Ryman was 100 percent untry: Brothers Osborne, Ltle Big Town, Mickey Guyton, Maren Morris, and the gay masked wboy Orville Peck. In juxtaposn to Wallen’s boorish behavr was Osborne’s vulnerable, public revelatn a Time magaze terview that he was gay.

9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

Bee the very ia of a gay untry star once seemed like a fantasy — the assumptn beg that untry mic’s fan base was overwhelmgly nservative and perhaps even bigoted. “Gee Stra or Gee Gay, there’s no difference” go another le that has sce end up on a T-shirt. Homan, who’d left his ral Kansas home at 18 to e to Nashville to pursue both mic and an tn, hadn’t imaged there would be a time when the untry-mic dtry would be welg to gay artists.

“It was like, ‘I n ntue to be fortable and out and gay, or I n do untry mic, but I fely n’t do both, ’” he says. Now, midway through 2021, that dichotomy appears to be fallg apart as artists stop worryg how they’ll be perceived for beg gay. And change is already the makg-- 2014, for example, Kacey Mgrav beme the first gay untry sger to take home the CMA Song of the Year award, for "Follow Your Arrow, " wrten by two LGBT songwrers.

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 .

HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD

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.

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Osborne, who publicly shared for the first time Febary that he is gay, kissed his boyiend Abi Ventura after the w was announced whle his brother kissed his wife, Lucie Silvas. "While there are many other openly gay artists and songwrers currently workg untry mic, cludg Brandi Carlile, Brandy Clark, Brooke En, Shane McAnally and Lily Rose, Osborne is one of the most proment. "It kd of gave the msage that maybe people that are gay or LGBTQ really, tly still aren't that accepted this state, " T.

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.