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MAN BEHD 'WORLD'S FIRST GAY UNTRY ALBUM' TOURS UNTRY NEARLY 50 YEARS AFTER FIRST ALBUM RELEASE
Merle Haggard was not gay. But he's been retroactively gay married -- twice! Merle Haggard, a fellow of a certa age om a time when was permissible to wre lyrics like, “There’s two kds of cherri and two kds of fairi and two kds of mothers I’m told, ” was not gay.
But, as Patrick Nielsen Hayn, Brad DeLong, and Jeff Wetrb pot out, he’s been retroactively gay married — twice! "What was unique about is was the world's first gay untry album, " said Haggerty.
Growg up on a dairy farm Washgton, Haggerty's fay knew he was gay, and they loved and accepted him. "When Haggerty began rerdg Lavenr Country, was a few years before the gay muny found refuge the late 70s dis scene. "The very ia we'd have an actual out-gay artist on the rad at that time, probably would have raised Nashville up like an earthquake!