Gay Country Mic: Nashville Com Out – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• T.J. OSBORNE OF THE BROTHERS OSBORNE PUBLICLY SHAR HE INTIFI AS GAY
• OSBORNE'S GAY MARRIAGE FANTASY SHOWS HE'S GOT TOO MUCH TIME ON HIS HANDS
• GAY MARRIAGE BACKED BY GEE OSBORNE AND WILLIAM HAGUE
• GEE OSBORNE TELLS TORI TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE OR LOSE
• TORY OUTRAGE AS GEE OSBORNE CHAMPNS GAY MARRIAGE
• OSBORNE SPEAKS SENSE ON GAY MARRIAGE
• GEE OSBORNE: GAY MARRIAGE MT BE TORY POLICY
• GAY MARRIAGE BACKED BY GEE OSBORNE AND WILLIAM HAGUE
• GAY MARRIAGE BILL 'RIGHT THG TO DO', SAY TORY HEAVYWEIGHTS APPEAL TO MPS
• COUNTRY STAR T.J. OSBORNE OF BROTHERS OSBORNE OUT AS GAY

T.J. OSBORNE OF THE BROTHERS OSBORNE PUBLICLY SHAR HE INTIFI AS GAY

Osborne, the lead volist of Brothers Osborne, the band he formed wh his brother John Osborne, has publicly shared for the first time that he is gay. “I’m very fortable beg gay, ” Osborne told the publitn, addg, “I fd myself beg guard for not wantg to talk about somethg that I personally don’t have a problem wh.

OSBORNE'S GAY MARRIAGE FANTASY SHOWS HE'S GOT TOO MUCH TIME ON HIS HANDS

Osborne is currently the only openly gay artist signed to a major untry label, Time reports, wh Osborne sayg he’s “cur how this will go. TJ Osborne, the first openly gay mician signed to a major untry rerd label, ma history aga Wednday night by kissg his boyiend on natnal televisn at the Country Mic Assn. Earlier the telest, Osborne opened up about his journey to untry superstardom and the obstacl he has faced bee of the genre’s homophobia and lack of reprentatn for LGBTQ+ artists.

“I would watch this show year after year, and I always thought how credible would be, ” Osborne said while troducg the duo’s performance of “Younger Me, ” a song the 36-year-old wrote about growg up gay. “Let me tell you seeg an openly gay man w a #CMA award & the meras not cut away when he kissed his date, is not somethg I thought I’d see my lifetime, ” wrote Ante Miller. Pro-gay marriage mpaigners outspent their opponents by $20 ln, a rat of 4:1.

The Daily Telegraph says:Gee Osborne, the Chancellor, donned his party strategist hat yterday to claim that if the Tori do not embrace gay marriage, uld st them the next general electn. Leavg asi the fact that was probably the Republins' anti-abortn stance that proved a more salient issue for women than gay marriage, such a leral read-across to Brish polics is dangeroly misleadg. He is also aware that there is ltle popular prsure favour of gay marriage - on the ntrary, there is wispread opposn - but that, too, is emed irrelevant.

GAY MARRIAGE BACKED BY GEE OSBORNE AND WILLIAM HAGUE

And the Daily Exprs says:IT IS remarkable that Chancellor Gee Osborne should fd the time to pontifite about social issu, such as the abortn law and gay marriage, that fall way outsi his Treasury Osborne appears to believe that beg "socially liberal" is the key to electoral fact, most voters believe fixg the enomy and alg wh bread and butter issu about livg standards are by far the most important tasks facg the longtime Conservativ are also fed up of seeg their party's learship tramplg on their beliefs and pictg anyone who don't embrace the full liberal agenda as a Osborne would be much better advised to treat beg Chancellor of the Exchequer as a full-time if he is not prepared to do so then David Cameron should fd somebody who, que. Image ptn, Gay marriage is not popular wh Tory party members, polls foreign secretary and chancellor have both said they will back the troductn of same-sex marriage when MPs are given a ee vote on the ments om Gee Osborne and William Hague me as a poll suggted most grassroot party members want the prime mister to drop the Osborne said the party supported "stutns of mment" and Mr Hague said the plans were "right" Church of England and other relig groups oppose the the proposals - outled a nsultatn earlier this year - relig anisatns would not be obliged to nduct same-sex marriag their plac of worship and there would be no change to how relig marriag are Mister David Cameron, puty PM Nick Clegg and Labour lear Ed Miliband are all also favour of legalisg gay marriage England and Wal.

GEE OSBORNE TELLS TORI TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE OR LOSE

Speakg on Sky News, Mr Osborne said: "I support gay marriage.

TORY OUTRAGE AS GEE OSBORNE CHAMPNS GAY MARRIAGE

I support gay marriage bee I believe Conservativ support the stutns of mment.

"Meanwhile, former shadow home secretary David Davis told a nference ge event: "Gay marriage is an issue for the church, not the state.

The Sttish ernment has also said will seek to legislate to troduce gay marriage by 2015, which has sparked a fierce row wh the Roman Catholic Church on this storyRelated Inter LksThe BBC is not rponsible for the ntent of external s.

OSBORNE SPEAKS SENSE ON GAY MARRIAGE

Gee Osborne has warned the Conservative Party that risks losg reelectn if fails to support gay marriage and is seen to be anti-women. "Print Obama’s high-profile endorsement of equal marriage for gay upl also enthed younger voters. "But polls found that a majory of all Amerins supported him on the issue and voted for all four stat that held backbench Tory MPs have led up to cricise the aln's plan to troduce gay marriage, but Osborne,, one of the chief archects of the pre-electn move to 'toxify' the Tory brand, said that the public supported the ernment.

"I should clare my personal posn on the social issu: I wouldn’t change the current abortn laws and I strongly support gay marriage on prciple, " he said.

"Of urse Bra the issu are on of dividual nscience and ee vot, but I am proud to be part of a Government that will troduce a Bill to allow gay marriage. "It is worth reflectg that Bra, as Ameri, a clear majory of the public support gay marriage, and an even bigger majory of women support . 'On the same day that the Uned Stat reelected Barack Obama print, voters Mae, Maryland, Washgton and Mntoa chose to legalise gay marriage.

GEE OSBORNE: GAY MARRIAGE MT BE TORY POLICY

The US Senate also has s first openly gay senator Tammy Baldw om Cameron is wily seen to have a "women problem", wh a former senr civil servant recently warng female officials were unable to perate the prime mister's "Etonian clique" ner his article Osborne relat Alec Baldw's observatn on the Republin Party's failgs wh women when he tweeted: “You know your party is trouble when people ask ‘did the rape guy w? GEORGE Osborne angered Tory backbenchers yterday by givg his “strong” support to gay marriage and opposg curbs on abortn. Chancellor Gee OsborneThe Chancellor said the Tori should seek to w the next general electn by pyg US Print Barack Obama’s liberal stance on social his remarks provoked lls om the Tory Right for the Chancellor to ncentrate “on his day job” of fixg the enomy rather than strayg to ntroversial policy areas beyond his Treasury Osborne said: “I should clare my personal posn on the social issu – I wouldn’t change the current abortn laws and I strongly support gay marriage on prciple.

“Of urse Bra the issu are on of dividual nscience and ee vot, but I am proud to be part of a Government that will troduce a Bill to allow gay marriage. I should clare my personal posn on the social issu – I wouldn’t change the current abortn laws and I strongly support gay marriage on prcipleChancellor Gee OsborneMr Osborne, wrg a newspaper, add: “As a Conservative, I draw some enuragg lsons om his victory.

Print Obama’s high-profile endorsement of equal marriage for gay upl also enthed young voters. ”Mr Hart highlighted a poll by ComR suggtg that supportg gay marriage uld st the Tori up to 30 parliamentary seats and 1.

GAY MARRIAGE BACKED BY GEE OSBORNE AND WILLIAM HAGUE

“Even among the gay muny the policy is not popular wh ls than one five – 19 per cent – believg the Prime Mister is proposg this change for the right reasons, ” add Mr Hart. He said the Republins’ posn on abortn had alienated women voters while Mr Obama’s gamble on publicly endorsg gay marriage appeared to have paid off.

“Print Obama’s high-profile endorsement of equal marriage for gay upl also enthed younger voters. A survey last month dited that three quarters of MPs received more letters and emails opposg the Coaln’s plans to extend civil marriage to homosexual upl than support. But pollg rults on gay marriage the UK have differed wily recent months and officials are currently analysg hundreds of thoands of rpons to a Home Office nsultatn on the plans.

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.

GAY MARRIAGE BILL 'RIGHT THG TO DO', SAY TORY HEAVYWEIGHTS APPEAL TO MPS

“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.

COUNTRY STAR T.J. OSBORNE OF BROTHERS OSBORNE OUT AS GAY

Now, midway through 2021, that dichotomy appears to be fallg apart as artists stop worryg how they’ll be perceived for beg gay. The out gay lumnist said that he didn’t believe the weddg was “ed” after an unnamed prottor threw orange nfetti over the ex-chancellor and his newly-wed wife, Thea Rogers, immediately after the ceremony on Saturday (8 July).