Kacey Mgrav Dreams Of A Day When ‘We Have A Gay Country Mic In’ | HuffPost Entertament

Contents:

• KACEY MGRAV IS A GAY IN AND THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW
• KACEY MGRAV Q&A: THE GAY INTERVIEW
• KACEY MGRAV DREAMS OF A DAY WHEN ‘WE HAVE A GAY COUNTRY MIC IN’
• KACEY MGRAV, NOTED GAY IN, IS ‘PISSED’ COUNTRY MIC ISN’T MORE LGBTQ-FRIENDLY
• KACEY MGRAV FEELS GUILTY THAT SHE ED TO BULLY GAY KIDS
• KACEY MGRAV IS “PISSED” HER GAY FANS HAVE FELT EXCLUD FROM COUNTRY MIC
• KACEY MGRAV REGRETS SHE ONCE STOOD BY WHILE A GAY GUY WAS BULLIED

KACEY MGRAV IS A GAY IN AND THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW

All Kacey wants is a gay, llective “You’re dog amazg sweetie, ” which we’re tent on givg her.

On the day of the release of her tly excellent new album, Goln Hour, by our cree as two (unqualified) gatekeepers to the Pantheon of Favs, we hereby duct Kacey to the non of pop songstrs servg of gay worship, supported below by select tracks and the herently queer narrativ behd them. We beg wh the song that started all, and by that we mean the first song that actually referenc gay stuff.

Wh that, she officially embedd herself to gay and civil rights history, or at least their documentatn.

KACEY MGRAV Q&A: THE GAY INTERVIEW

While her latt album forsak the bg turns of phrase she’s been known to e, they’re certaly prent here, and there’s really nothg gayer than wordplay.

KACEY MGRAV DREAMS OF A DAY WHEN ‘WE HAVE A GAY COUNTRY MIC IN’

Kacey Mgrav Is a Gay In and the World Needs to Know. After spendg nearly a Nashville buildg a reer that has all but refed morn untry — all while wholeheartedly embracg her queer fans — the 30-year-old Texas native has achieved the rare kd of mastream regnn that many untry performers crave but rarely atta, and bee a gay in, to many, Mgrav is an inoclast: a pop stylist wh a tradnal untry soul, and a lover of big hair and bell bottoms who once said she feels “like I'm a drag queen trapped si of my body. If you tell certa Christians that you're gay, you risk judgement.

If you tell a gay person you’re Christian, they uld have a negative reactn as well. History tght me that gay people weren't wele the church, but as soon as I found my church and realized that wasn't the se, I was able to start peelg away those layers of shame I'd built up ’s lyrics, and the story behd how she got to where she is today, is what ronat wh me most. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a prit, but my fay disuraged , maybe bee they knew I was gay.

And beg so open about homosexualy, equaly, and happs is really risky her dtry. She’s sayg be who you want to be, be gay, don’t be gay. Durg an event at the 2018 New Yorker Ftival, one of the star’s fans asked her how she felt about beg a gay in untry.

KACEY MGRAV, NOTED GAY IN, IS ‘PISSED’ COUNTRY MIC ISN’T MORE LGBTQ-FRIENDLY

Bee I love the genre so much, I felt, ‘Well fe, maybe I’ll jt have an all-gay dience. Many other artists Mgrav’ posn will simply assume their stat as Gay In™ and leave there.

In her love letter to the LGBTQ muny she wrote for Billboard, Mgrav opened up about the fact that she ed to have a negative view of homosexualy, before a close iend me out to her. Kacey Mgrav has long been nsired a gay ally — and now she's openg up about how all started. I didn't go to thkg, 'Ooh, I want to be a gay in.

"When I moved to Nashville, I ma a lot of iends the gay muny and my ey were opened up a lot of ways to how wonrful that muny is — somethg I genuely jt naturally wasn't around Texas, not by choice, that's jt the way that was, " said Mgrav, who was raised Goln, Texas. After Brothers Osborne's TJ Osborne, 36, me out as gay an terview wh Time on Wednday, his fellow untry stars are celebratg him owng his sexualy and livg his tth. You're nobody's whisper anymore, " tweeted Chely Wright, who me out as gay 2010.

KACEY MGRAV FEELS GUILTY THAT SHE ED TO BULLY GAY KIDS

In his g out 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. If they’re like this 24-year-old, they also love the gay muny – and sg about – and ocsnally puff a doobie. Did you know many gay people when you were livg there?

So that iend was the first gay person you knew? I absolutely love gay people. I heard “Follow Your Arrow” and had a feelg you did; ’s rare the gay muny be acknowledged a untry mic song.

KACEY MGRAV IS “PISSED” HER GAY FANS HAVE FELT EXCLUD FROM COUNTRY MIC

Whether or not you agree wh gay marriage or the fact that people don’t choose to be gay, we share the same emotns, needs and wants. Have you ever seen an openly gay male untry artist be succsful? Were you worried about releasg “Follow Your Arrow, ” a song that advot marijuana and homosexualy?

(Lghs) I wrote the song wh one of my producers, Shane McAnally, who’s gay, and Brandy Clarke, who’s an amazg wrer and also gay. Have you received feedback om the gay muny? And my manager is gay.

I don’t even thk has to be about male or female, gay or straight – ’s jt about humans beg able to live eely. ”Last week Mgrav joked on Twter, “I want a gay, llective ‘you’re dog amazg sweetie’” — and the lead-up to her new album, she’s already gettg : Far’s Myl Tanzer reflected on her “vol queer fanbase” a glowg profile, and BuzzFeed’s Matt Stopera proclaimed her “the bt thg to happen to mic sce Brney Spears.

KACEY MGRAV REGRETS SHE ONCE STOOD BY WHILE A GAY GUY WAS BULLIED

Some of Mgrav’ peers the realm of more experimental or pop-iendly ntemporary untry, like Sturgill Simpson and Maren Morris, have also been vol about supportg gay urse, addn to alli, there have long been important queer figur the genre.