Gay Country Songs: Bt LGBTQ Country/Amerina Anthems – Billboard

Contents:

• COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
• FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
• 11 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

After the wife of untry sger Jason Alan ma an ignorant post last year thankg her parents for not "forcg her" to be trans when she was a tomboy, other sgers, like Maren Morris, clapped back, sayg there's no room for homophobia and transphobia untry mic and that those clgg onto need to change or get out of the way.

"But there's a very sid culture of people feelg very fortable beg transphobic and homophobic and racist, and that they n wrap a joke and no one will ever ll them out for . Me out as gay 2021 and ntu to release hs wh his band.

One of untry mic's greatt songwrers and producers is gay. Their 1973 self-tled album is nsired the first known gay-themed untry mic album.

FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

When he me out as gay, and also revealed that when he had been sexually abed by an uncle, he was disowned om his fay.

Herndon is nsired by most to be the first mastream male untry artist to e out as gay when he did so 2014. The album explored the tersectn of beg gay and relig and her song "Lovg You" is a self-acceptance anthem about lovg who you love no matter Getty Imag.

hen Brandy Clark lnched a untry-mic rerdg reer 2013, there wasn’t any template to follow for an openly gay artist Nashville.

11 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

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. “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.

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

“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. Origatg 1960s Japan, where  was known as “yaoi, ” BL typilly picts two men a homoerotic relatnship.

Some LGBTQ activists have acced BL stori of fetishizg and appropriatg gay culture. Wily regnized as South Korea’s first openly gay K-pop artist, the sger and actor Go Tae-seob, who the stage name Holland, starred a BL drama last year and believ that the growg visibily of BL books, TV seri and movi is a posive step. Bdette, who also intifi as gay and is a longstandg BL fan, said the genre will shake up nservative views on genr and sexualy South Korea.