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- PATRICK HAGGERTY, ‘LOST PNEER’ OF GAY COUNTRY MIC, DI AT 78
- 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
PATRICK HAGGERTY, ‘LOST PNEER’ OF GAY COUNTRY MIC, DI AT 78
The redisvery of an album he rerd 1973 brought him renown as the first openly gay untry S. Warren/Associated PrsPatrick Haggerty, who 1973 released an album of untry songs about same-sex romance that sold only 1, 000 pi and seemed sted for eternal obscury until, four s later, s redisvery brought him renown as the first openly gay untry sger, died on Oct.
40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
Haggerty’s youth hardly acknowledged the existence of homosexualy, and when did, the referenc were oblique and mockg. Haggerty the unual — he equently lled “absurd” — clatn to make gay untry had been spired to e out of the closet after learng about the 1969 Stonewall uprisg New York, creded wh igng the gay-rights movement. He soon joed a lol Seattle chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front, which helped form a gay muny center and held 1972, he lnched himself on what would bee his most endurg form of activism: creatg a band lled Lavenr Country, sentially a solo project which he got help om a few iends Seattle.
He wrote most of the songs, played atic guar and sang lead on the group’s but album, also lled “Lavenr Country, ” which was sponsored by a lol gay social servic group.
The mic sometim ma for a ntrast wh the lyrics, which uld be mpy — “Back the Closet Aga” imaged a revolutn which “a battaln of gay men brought up the rear/Packg two grenas each brassiere” — but there were also songs of prott and lament.