11 Country Mic Artists Who Have Come Out As Gay | Whiskey Riff

Contents:

• 9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• TJ OSBORNE COM OUT AS GAY
• 11 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• MASKED SGER ORVILLE PECK ON BEG OPENLY GAY COUNTRY MIC: ‘WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN THERE’
• HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD
• BILLY GILMAN REVEALS HE'S GAY YOUTUBE VIO
• T.J. OSBORNE OF UNTRY MIC DUO BROTHERS OSBORNE OUT AS GAY
• CMT STAR CODY ALAN COM OUT AS GAY: 'YOU CAN FD THE KD OF LOVE, PEACE AND HAPPS THIS LIFE YOU DERVE'
• 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.

TJ Osborne Com Out as Gay. Brothers Osborne sger-guarist TJ Osborne has publicly e out as gay, revealg the news an terview wh Time.

TJ OSBORNE COM OUT AS GAY

Wh this revelatn, Osborne be the first openly gay man signed to a major untry label and one of the first mastream untry artists to e out the prime of their reer. “I’m very fortable beg gay, ” Osborne told wrer Sam Lansky.

I intify as gay, and I’ve never said that to anybody else. In se you missed the news om 2021, 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. After the wife of untry sger Jason Alan ma an ignorant post 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.

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11 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

Their 1973 self-tled album is nsired the first known gay-themed untry mic album. 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.

MASKED SGER ORVILLE PECK ON BEG OPENLY GAY COUNTRY MIC: ‘WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN THERE’

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. J., 36, is gay.

“I’m very fortable beg gay, ” he says later, a quiet room at the office of his management pany.

Be the only openly gay artist signed to a major untry label—a historic moment for the genre. Says, untry isn’t the most popular genre among gay people. First told his brother that he is gay.

HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD

” As Brothers Osborne’s reer grew, they ma gtur toward cln, startg wh the vio for sgle “Stay a Ltle Longer, ” which featured gay and terracial upl.

Even amid lls for greater cln, the homogeney of the top artists the genre is still strikg.

Will nservative rad programmers or ral ncertgoers be as eager to play and tailgate a gay artist, even one they already know and love?

BILLY GILMAN REVEALS HE'S GAY YOUTUBE VIO

What if beg gay is a gift, and your gayns is not somethg to be tolerated but somethg to be celebrated, and even if untanglg the shame and nfn of growg up gay a straight world tak a long time, ’s worth dog so you n e your voice, not only to sg songs about cutoff jeans and hair blowg the breeze but to say, clearly and unapologetilly, that this is who you are? What if there are a lot of gay boys small towns who haven’t figured out yet and feel overwhelmed by snarky TV sikicks and gltery pop stars bellowg self-empowerment anthems, and what if those gay boys small towns got to have an avatar of their own—if they knew that someone like them was sgg that song about cutoff jeans and hair blowg the breeze on the rad?

T.J. OSBORNE OF UNTRY MIC DUO BROTHERS OSBORNE OUT AS GAY

” But what if beg gay is not a small tail? Nashville native Cys is an unniable pop and rock star, fond of sgg vers by the Cranberri and Soundgarn, but her gut list at the Ryman was 100 percent untry: Brothers Osborne, Ltle Big Town, Mickey Guyton, Maren Morris, and the gay masked wboy Orville Peck. In juxtaposn to Wallen’s boorish behavr was Osborne’s vulnerable, public revelatn a Time magaze terview that he was gay.

Bee the very ia of a gay untry star once seemed like a fantasy — the assumptn beg that untry mic’s fan base was overwhelmgly nservative and perhaps even bigoted.

“Gee Stra or Gee Gay, there’s no difference” go another le that has sce end up on a T-shirt. Homan, who’d left his ral Kansas home at 18 to e to Nashville to pursue both mic and an tn, hadn’t imaged there would be a time when the untry-mic dtry would be welg to gay artists. “It was like, ‘I n ntue to be fortable and out and gay, or I n do untry mic, but I fely n’t do both, ’” he says.

CMT STAR CODY ALAN COM OUT AS GAY: 'YOU CAN FD THE KD OF LOVE, PEACE AND HAPPS THIS LIFE YOU DERVE'

Now, midway through 2021, that dichotomy appears to be fallg apart as artists stop worryg how they’ll be perceived for beg gay. And change is already the makg-- 2014, for example, Kacey Mgrav beme the first gay untry sger to take home the CMA Song of the Year award, for "Follow Your Arrow, " wrten by two LGBT songwrers. Peck, who is on a worldwi tour support of his send album, “Bron, ” is also openly gay.

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“I started to receive a lot of msag and letters om gay and trans and queer fans, ” Peck says. “I have fely received my fair share of reluctance, skepticism and aggrsn bee I’m a gay man the untry world, ” he says. I thk if we keep our heads held high and we keep together and we keep dog what we’re dog and beg thentic, I like to believe that will hopefully not only change the landspe of untry mic, but ’ll also help change the cycle of racism and homophobia.

“I thk the future is so bright for Orville, ” says openly gay CMT host Cody Alan.

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

Country mic has a lengthy and not-so-proud reputatn for beg tensely homophobic. 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. 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. Osborne, who is the first gay artist signed to a major untry label.