Chart Toppg Sgers Who Have Come Out As Gay

Contents:

• BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
• COUNTRY SGER FANCY HAGOOD ON LIFE AS A GAY ARTIST NASHVILLE: 'OUR STORI ARE ALL IMPORTANT'
• IS ANTHONY 'SOTER' TEAGUE GAY?
• ‘AMERIN BANDSTAND’ KEPT SECRET THAT TEEN STARS WERE GAY
• CHART TOPPG SGERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER

Country mic legend's Patrick Haggerty's first album 'Lavenr Country' (1973) is nsired the first openly-gay untry mic album.

Most recently, gay Shane McAnally was named 2014 Songwrer of the Year at the Country Mic Awards. Boy Band Members Who Are Out As Gay, Bisexual or Queer.

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COUNTRY SGER FANCY HAGOOD ON LIFE AS A GAY ARTIST NASHVILLE: 'OUR STORI ARE ALL IMPORTANT'

The mastream populary of boy bands wtern mic almost ensur that one or two members of each group intifi as gay, bisexual or queer.

Most out gay boy band members talk about their early reer days of havg dual personas - the public heterosexual teen male, and the private gay dividual - creatg an thenticy paradox. There have been sporadic attempts to create succsful all-gay boy bands to ter to the LGBTQ dance club crowd. Neverthels, there is a group of notable boy band members who publicly intify as gay, bisexual or queer.

IS ANTHONY 'SOTER' TEAGUE GAY?

Here, the 30-year-old risg star (real name: Jake Hagood) opens up about his journey back to Nashville and how he is reprentg the LGBTQ muny as a gay untry sger.

‘AMERIN BANDSTAND’ KEPT SECRET THAT TEEN STARS WERE GAY

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CHART TOPPG SGERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

A., even though beg gay is not really a nversatn and people don't really re, I found myself beg told to tone down. Your iend TJ Osborne (of Brothers Osborne) recently me out as gay.

We all look and breathe and act and perform differently, and you might be experiencg gay culture and you don't even know . I thk the msage that: "We're here, we're queer, and you might not even know , " is so empowerg, bee gay people don't all sound the same, we don't all look the same.