Here Are Gay Country Sgers Who Stood Out Loud and Proud

Contents:

• 9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
• HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD

9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

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That he’s gay is “the least tertg thg about [him], ” Peck said. Sgg gay love songs once killed the reers of artists like Patrick Haggerty, whose band Lavenr Country 1973 released what’s wily nsired the first untry album rerd by an out gay performer. Osborne, one half of the Brothers Osbourne, me out last year, the first out gay artist signed to a major untry label.

In 1973, years after the Peace Corps kicked him out for beg gay, he released his first rerd. ” His lyrics, fiant and heartwrenchg, nmned the racism and homophobia that supprsed Haggerty and his bandmat.

COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY

In 2014, the producer end up rereleasg the rerd, once only available by orrg om the backpag of Seattle’s gay newspaper. He views Lavenr Country as a “revolutnary obligatn” he’s bound to, now that he’s fally got a platform and a willg dience for his songs about racism, homophobia and the fltl Amerin society. 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.

hen Brandy Clark lnched a untry-mic rerdg reer 2013, there wasn’t any template to follow for an openly gay artist Nashville. Clark has been at the foreont of that shift and creds her iendship wh Shane McAnally — one of Nashville’s most succsful songwrers, who is also gay — wh givg her the nfince to pursue a solo reer.

HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD

“Who knows who’s gog to be listeng to me the flyover stat that’s gog to draw strength om ‘Oh, she’s gay too? Man, if she’s gay and dog that, maybe I uld do that. “Gee Stra or Gee Gay, there’s no difference, ” sgs Homan, who now liv Nashville.

“Though a lot of people that work the dtry support me om a distance, there’s a difference between that and actually takg some steps to ph that further and sign some [gay artists], ” Homan says. Country mic has a lengthy and not-so-proud reputatn for beg tensely homophobic.

Gay untry sgers were, sadly, not warmly weled. For stance, Patrick Haggerty, whose band lled Lavenr Country, released what is wily believed to be the first explicly gay rerd 1973, ultimately leadg the band to fa to obscury. From gay untry stars sgg os about lovg who you want to untry artists enuragg listeners not to be aaid to embrace their genr inty, the genre – both s artists and s fans – has fally reached a place where acceptance is the new standard.