Livg Gay Nashville: Country Mic Insirs Share Their Stori - Variety

Contents:

• ‘NASHVILLE’ SEASON 3 SPOILERS: IS WILL ANNOUNCG HE IS GAY? A NEW CHARACTER MIGHT LEAD HIM OUT OF THE CLOSET
• KYLE DEAN MASSEY OPENS UP ON GAY ‘NASHVILLE’ CHARACTER
• THE GAY COUNTRY STAR FROM CMT'S NASHVILLE LANDS A (FICTNAL) BUDWEISER AD PROGRSIVE INTEGRATN
• Q&A: 'NASHVILLE'S' CHRIS CARMACK ON PLAYG GAY COUNTRY, POP MIC AND 'THE O.C.'S' LEGACY
• LIVG GAY NASHVILLE: COUNTRY MIC INSIRS SHARE STORI OF INCLN, BLACKMAIL, HUCKABEE AND HATERS
• NASHVILLE PRODUCER SAYS GAY CHARACTER WILL ‘WON’T BE FED BY HIS SEXUALY’
• MOVG TO LGBT NASHVILLE, TENNSEE? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

‘NASHVILLE’ SEASON 3 SPOILERS: IS WILL ANNOUNCG HE IS GAY? A NEW CHARACTER MIGHT LEAD HIM OUT OF THE CLOSET

However, he is a closeted gay man tryg to make a name for himself a highly prejudiced society and reveals his te nature to Gunnar when he tri to kiss him. While filmg a realy TV show Will unknowgly nfs that he is gay to Layla while the meras are rollg. When his father viss he has to hi his te nature sce his father is homophobic but when Will holds a prs nference he fally has the urage to e out.

He signs to Le Wheeler's label and works wh songwrer Kev Bicks, who is also gay. He go on a televisn show and lls out the host for her anti-gay views, gag the admiratn of the gay muny. Will was a closeted gay man who eventually me to terms wh his sexualy.

KYLE DEAN MASSEY OPENS UP ON GAY ‘NASHVILLE’ CHARACTER

9) episo of 'Nashville' on ABC found closeted gay untry sger Will on stage at the Wildhorse Saloon sgg 'What if I Was Willg' to a crowd that clud Gunnar Stt (actor Sam Pallad), his iend and the man he tried to put a move on before Season 1 wrapped May.

So far, the rponse to Carmack's character and mic has been posive, he says, pecially om the gay muny, who are grateful he took a role that many actors would turn down. ' Everybody wants to say, 'Oh, you're the gay wboy, ' and not wh any risn, but wh excement … but people are sred to say . In jail after a brawl a bar, Will nfs to Gunnar that he's gay.

Will, still closeted, fights his attractn to Kev, although Kev spects that Will might be gay.

THE GAY COUNTRY STAR FROM CMT'S NASHVILLE LANDS A (FICTNAL) BUDWEISER AD PROGRSIVE INTEGRATN

Will however, realiz that he's tired of livg a lie, and of hurtg the people he r about (specifilly, Kev and Layla), and publicly adms he's gay. Kev eventually persuas him to go out aga, but their dat ually end disastroly: Will's ual hangouts are filled wh irate fans (and former female lovers), while Will feels out of place the gay scene Kev tri to troduce him to. Kev's fal straw when he gets will a sgg gig at a club; Will performs well but is upset when the largely female crowd ph a prumably gay man to the ont row.

A few weeks later, Will has fally embraced his new inty as untry mic's most proment gay artist, and he and Le ask Kev to help stir up some lol support Atlanta, where Will is attemptg to get an terview wh the nservative pund who has been attackg him the prs. After Will suggts they move together, Kev looks for an apartment but do not tell the renter that they are a uple se they are homophobic. Kyle Dean Massey, who portrays the character, is openly gay.

He has been hidg his sexualy, and the Inter has started to speculate that he is gay. He is “an openly gay sger-songwrer who is one of the most succsful all of Nashville.

Q&A: 'NASHVILLE'S' CHRIS CARMACK ON PLAYG GAY COUNTRY, POP MIC AND 'THE O.C.'S' LEGACY

Viewers saw Will watch a gay bartenr very closely when he attend a mic ftival earlier this year.

Herndon, 52, me out after beg the public eye for nearly 20 years and beg the subject of gay mors. That same day, Gilman, 26, stated that Herndon spired him to announce that he is gay as well, ABC News reports.

LIVG GAY NASHVILLE: COUNTRY MIC INSIRS SHARE STORI OF INCLN, BLACKMAIL, HUCKABEE AND HATERS

Do you thk Will is ever gog to have the urage to e out as gay? Broadway vet jos the show as an openly gay songwrer a storyle that reflects real-life stggl the entertament dtry.

NASHVILLE PRODUCER SAYS GAY CHARACTER WILL ‘WON’T BE FED BY HIS SEXUALY’

Life the closet is about to get even more plited for Nashville‘s gay untry heartthrob Will Lexgton, thanks to the arrival of one Kev Bicks. As Rollg Stone Country revealed last month, actor Kyle Dean Massey has joed the ABC drama, playg an openly gay sger-songwrer who llaborat on songs wh Will, played by Chris Carmack. ” He himself is an openly gay entertaer, as well, havg appeared several Broadway and televisn shows.

MOVG TO LGBT NASHVILLE, TENNSEE? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

Even livg New York Cy, where really is [accepted] as far as beg an actor, I know a lot of gay people who are not openly gay bee of the stigma, or the prenceived ia that may e along wh that label, ” says Massey. A lot of people are OK wh their brother or their uncle or their bt iend beg gay, but they don’t really want their untry star to be gay. “Then to be around my character, who is totally chill about , pletely open about and succsful while still beg openly gay, I thk the storyle addrs a lot of thgs.

It asks a lot of qutns: Can people accept this [person who] creat somethg that is mascule, and do beg gay mean that you’re sudnly not? And while he don’t have to image what ’s like for his character to be openly gay, he do have to work to properly portray another of Kev’s tras, nfsg that he has no personal aptu for songwrg.

Kev Bicks is a gay character om Nashville. Queer Character, Queer Actor - Kyle Dean Massey is also gay. In his short time on Nashville, Will Lexgton has been a closeted gay male, a nflicted gay untry mician and a proud csar for gay acceptance.

Will snuck around wh var guys, engaged a sham marriage, fally me out to his iends, fought his disapprovg parents, fend off the advanc of an on-the-downlow olr untry artist, fell love wh a fellow male songwrer and eventually held a prs nference to announce his sexualy to the world… then had to fight to fd a label willg to promote an openly gay untry artist.