Lookg for a list of the bt gay sgers and gay micians of all time? We've round up our top picks along wh their bt songs!
Contents:
- 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. Haggerty’s youth hardly acknowledged the existence of homosexualy, and when did, the referenc were oblique and mockg.
40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
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. ”Lavenr Country attracted lol attentn, performg at gay pri paras Seattle and San Francis and eventually sellg out a n of 1, 000 pi of s album.