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Contents:

• 9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
• 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: GAY MALE CELEBRI, HOT COUNTRY SGERSGAY MALE COUNTRY SGERS: EIGHT OUT AND PROUD COUNTRY STARS
• TJ OSBORNE OF BROTHERS OSBORNE TALKS BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY COUNTRY SGER TO BE SIGNED TO A MAJOR LABEL

9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

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.

Ty Herndon me out as gay 2014, havg prevly earned a handful of No. ” That same year, Billy Gilman (who found succs untry mic as a child wh songs cludg “One Voice”) also me out publicly as gay.

Sce then, the untry mic dtry has slowly seen more openly gay artists and songwrers fd succs. In the 2000s and 2010s, songwrers Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, who are both openly gay, began havg succs as wrers. “We Shall Be Free” — and s celebry-filled mic vio — took aim at a number of social issu, cludg homophobia, eedom of relign, world hunger and racism.

40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

Includ on the group Lavenr Country’s groundbreakg, gay-themed, eponymo 1973 album, this song is a mil ray of sunshe, as the sger basks the happs of a new relatnship. Brothers Osborne’s TJ Osborne me out as gay an terview wh TIME 2021, and soon, the siblg duo released this song, crafted as a song to TJ’s younger self, filled wh enuragement and wisdom. Country mic has a lengthy and not-so-proud reputatn for beg tensely homophobic.

COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY

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.

35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

So, today, let’s take a look at some of the most celebrated gay untry sgers – om Grammy Award-wng stars Brandi Carlile and Lil Nas X to T.J. Osborne, who is the first gay artist signed to a major untry label.

Brandi Carlile spent most of her childhood beg told that “to be gay was a one-way ticket to hell.” She even had never met another gay person – until she watched Ellen DeGener’ historic 1997 “I’m gay” episo, which she rerd on a VHS tape so she uld watch repeatedly.

It was then that Carlile me to terms wh the fact that she was gay. However, thgs changed at the height of his reer when he me out as gay durg the last day of Pri Month 2019 through a seri of tweets and his song lled “c7osure.” He adms that his fame has ma easier for him to e out. In 2014, the Nashville artist revealed to PEOPLE a part of himself he has kept secret for his entire reer: beg a “happy gay man.” Ty Herndon revealed that he first began wonrg about his sexualy when he was only ten years old.

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Herndon said that Anthony Robbs’ semar 2009 sparked the urage for him to e out, thkg how his story might help terrified gay youth. “There is somethg very gay about the imagery of ,” the sger said. Chely Wright beme one of the first untry sgers to e out as gay openly.

However, Oladokun was silently battlg si as she tried to rencile her fah wh the fact that she was gay, which she had been aware of at a young age. Osborne, one half of the popular untry mic duo Brothers Osborne, had known he was gay sce “before I even unrstood what was.” However, he cid not to ever talk about wh anyone. While he went through some hardships, like feelg very isolated his early days Nashville, he found the right moment to publicly e out as gay as the band’s reer picked up – and his announcement went off really well.

He has sce been nsired the pneerg gay untry mician. Haggerty knew he was gay om an early age. In his early 20s, he was discharged om the Peace Corps for beg gay, leadg him to bee a queer rights activist.

TJ OSBORNE OF BROTHERS OSBORNE TALKS BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY COUNTRY SGER TO BE SIGNED TO A MAJOR LABEL

The band released a self-tled album featurg songs “I Can’t Shake the Stranger Out of You” and “Cry’ The Cocksuckg Tears.” The album was wily regard as the first-ever openly gay untry rerd.

As an openly gay man workg untry mic, Paisley Fields is boldly beg himself as he ntu to drive forward an often-perceived nservative mic genre.

Le dancg is gay as hell!’ I felt like I f there,” he said. Lang was only five when she realized she was gay? The untry artist first me out 2018 after he was spired by the film Boy Erased, which tells the story of a teenage gay.