Kacey Mgrav, at this year’s New Yorker Ftival, discsed how she’s a gay in and her fluence the LGBTQ muny.
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. 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 Is a Gay In and the World Needs to Know.
KACEY MGRAV Q&A: THE GAY INTERVIEW
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.
KACEY MGRAV DREAMS OF A DAY WHEN ‘WE HAVE A GAY COUNTRY MIC IN’
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.
KACEY MGRAV, NOTED GAY IN, IS ‘PISSED’ COUNTRY MIC ISN’T MORE LGBTQ-FRIENDLY
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.
Bee I love the genre so much, I felt, ‘Well fe, maybe I’ll jt have an all-gay dience.
KACEY MGRAV FEELS GUILTY THAT SHE ED TO BULLY GAY KIDS
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.
KACEY MGRAV IS “PISSED” HER GAY FANS HAVE FELT EXCLUD FROM COUNTRY MIC
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. 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. 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.
KACEY MGRAV REGRETS SHE ONCE STOOD BY WHILE A GAY GUY WAS BULLIED
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.