TJ Osborne Com Out as Gay – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• T.J. OSBORNE, OPENLY GAY ARTIST ADVOTG FOR CLIVY, CELEBRAT CMA W BY KISSG BOYIEND
• T.J. OSBORNE OF THE BROTHERS OSBORNE PUBLICLY SHAR HE INTIFI AS GAY
• TJ OSBORNE OF BROTHERS OSBORNE COM OUT AS GAY: 'MY HAPPS IS MORE VALUABLE THAN ANYTHG ELSE'
• TJ OSBORNE COM OUT AS GAY
• T.J. OSBORNE OF BROTHERS OSBORNE REVEALS HE’S GAY
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• T.J. OSBORNE OF COUNTRY DUO BROTHERS OSBORNE COM OUT AS GAY

T.J. OSBORNE, OPENLY GAY ARTIST ADVOTG FOR CLIVY, CELEBRAT CMA W BY KISSG BOYIEND

Osborne ma untry-mic history earlier this year by g out as gay at the top of his reer and beg the only openly gay mician signed to a major untry label. "Osborne -wrote "Younger Me" wh his brother and duo partner John and songwrer and artist Kenll Marvel after seeg the rponse to his cisn to publicly e out as gay early Febary, a prs release shar.

His fay and iends have known for years that TJ is gay, but the sger only recently cid he "want[s] to get to the height of my reer beg pletely who I am" to fans and the rt of the world, TJ received que a b of support om fay, iends and fans alike after g out, John Osborne, particular, offered praise for his brother and bandmate's cisn.

T.J. OSBORNE OF THE BROTHERS OSBORNE PUBLICLY SHAR HE INTIFI AS GAY

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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.

TJ OSBORNE OF BROTHERS OSBORNE COM OUT AS GAY: 'MY HAPPS IS MORE VALUABLE THAN ANYTHG ELSE'

"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. J., who me out as gay Febary, said when troducg the duo's performance Wednday night.

Osborne, the lead volist of Brothers Osborne, the band he formed wh his brother John Osborne, has publicly shared for the first time that he is gay. “I’m very fortable beg gay, ” Osborne told the publitn, addg, “I fd myself beg guard for not wantg to talk about somethg that I personally don’t have a problem wh.

Osborne is currently the only openly gay artist signed to a major untry label, Time reports, wh Osborne sayg he’s “cur how this will go. In a Wednday terview wh Time, the mician me out as gay — and he has the unndnal support of his brother John, wh whom he forms the untry duo. "I'm very fortable beg gay, " the 36-year-old told the outlet, explag that he worried about g out an dtry that leans nservative.

TJ OSBORNE COM OUT AS GAY

After the release of their Grammy-nomated song "Stay a Ltle Longer, " the duo paired s mic vio wh imag of terracial and gay upl. In the terview, TJ explaed that he told his brother John, 38, he was gay around the time the two moved to Nashville after signg a publishg and rerd al.

TJ Osborne Com Out as Gay. Brothers Osborne sger-guarist TJ Osborne has publicly e out as gay, revealg the news an terview wh Time. Wh this revelatn, Osborne be the first openly gay man signed to a major untry label and one of the first mastream untry artists to e out the prime of their reer.

T.J. OSBORNE OF BROTHERS OSBORNE REVEALS HE’S GAY

“I’m very fortable beg gay, ” Osborne told wrer Sam Lansky. J., 36, is gay.

“I’m very fortable beg gay, ” he says later, a quiet room at the office of his management pany. Be the only openly gay artist signed to a major untry label—a historic moment for the genre.

Says, untry isn’t the most popular genre among gay people. First told his brother that he is gay. ” As Brothers Osborne’s reer grew, they ma gtur toward cln, startg wh the vio for sgle “Stay a Ltle Longer, ” which featured gay and terracial upl.

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Even amid lls for greater cln, the homogeney of the top artists the genre is still strikg.

Will nservative rad programmers or ral ncertgoers be as eager to play and tailgate a gay artist, even one they already know and love?

T.J. OSBORNE OF COUNTRY DUO BROTHERS OSBORNE COM OUT AS GAY

What if beg gay is a gift, and your gayns is not somethg to be tolerated but somethg to be celebrated, and even if untanglg the shame and nfn of growg up gay a straight world tak a long time, ’s worth dog so you n e your voice, not only to sg songs about cutoff jeans and hair blowg the breeze but to say, clearly and unapologetilly, that this is who you are? What if there are a lot of gay boys small towns who haven’t figured out yet and feel overwhelmed by snarky TV sikicks and gltery pop stars bellowg self-empowerment anthems, and what if those gay boys small towns got to have an avatar of their own—if they knew that someone like them was sgg that song about cutoff jeans and hair blowg the breeze on the rad? ” But what if beg gay is not a small tail?

Osborne of the mastream untry rock brother duo Brothers Osborne has revealed that he is gay. ” Signalg he don’t want to make a big al about , but also wanted to get out of the way, the 36-year-old says, “I’m very fortable beg gay.

Is the only openly gay artist signed to a major untry label, this serv a ltle ntext. Other major label untry artists have e out after reachg mercial promence, cludg Ty Herndon and Billy Gilman November of 2014, Chely Wright who revealed she was gay 2010, and Canada’s K. The often-overlooked 3rd origal member of Sugarland, Kristen Hall, was also gay.

I mean, she mentns beg gay and GLAAD , and also there's a part where she sgs about men gowns. Taylor Swift's new song is pro-gay!

And then there's this lyric: "'Cse sha never ma anybody ls gay.

" So, I thk what she's tryg to say here is that "sha" = "beg mean" (which don't) and that beg mean to people who are gay never stopped them om beg gay (which isn't te, that's lerally how bullyg and opprsn work?? Or maybe she's jt dog a late-stage non-apology for all the "sha" she threw at gay people on 2007's "Picture to Burn"? Like, sure, I sang about tellg all my iends my ex is gay to get back at him on a song bought by lns of teens at a time when not even same-sex marriage was legalized, but sha never ma anybody ls gay!

While some classics do appear on our list, others do not – sorry, Gloria Gaynor, Kylie Mogue, RuPl, Brney and Cher, we still adore you — here are 25 sential pri songs om the 1970s to today. gay clubs but, wh a strg of hs, expand to natnal tours and TV. Somewhat rctively lled the “Queen of Dis, ” the virtuosic, openly gay sger approached genr ( his performative and private liv) as a fluid, non-bary ncept a pre–Judh Butler era.

Although seems most of Queen’s fans were cluels as to how openly gay and subversive ontman Freddie Mercury was – spe the unabashed swank of his stage prence – he also never really tried to hi . Rodgers later told the Mail on Sunday that they wrote the track “bee of her gay followg, ” but fibbed a ltle to a sktish Ross. “A DJ told her [the song] was gog to her reer – people would thk she was gay, ” Rodgers said.