Here Are Gay Country Sgers Who Stood Out Loud and Proud

Contents:

• ‘I’M HERE, I’M QUEER AND I’M COUNTRY’: THE TOP 5 GAY COUNTRY SONGS
• HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD
• THE ULTIMATE GAY LOVE SONGS PLAYLIST FOR YOUR LGBTQ WEDDG
• 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
• GAY COUNTRY

‘I’M HERE, I’M QUEER AND I’M COUNTRY’: THE TOP 5 GAY COUNTRY SONGS

Ty Herndon me out as gay 2014, havg prevly earned a handful of No. ” That same year, Billy Gilman (who found succs untry mic as a child wh songs cludg “One Voice”) also me out publicly as gay. Sce then, the untry mic dtry has slowly seen more openly gay artists and songwrers fd succs.

In the 2000s and 2010s, songwrers Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, who are both openly gay, began havg succs as wrers. “We Shall Be Free” — and s celebry-filled mic vio — took aim at a number of social issu, cludg homophobia, eedom of relign, world hunger and racism.

Includ on the group Lavenr Country’s groundbreakg, gay-themed, eponymo 1973 album, this song is a mil ray of sunshe, as the sger basks the happs of a new relatnship. Brothers Osborne’s TJ Osborne me out as gay an terview wh TIME 2021, and soon, the siblg duo released this song, crafted as a song to TJ’s younger self, filled wh enuragement and wisdom.

HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD

Wh Wtern culture often built around romantic relatnships – and particularly where love-songs or songs about love are so pervasive – homophobia and heteronormativy n often leave feelg unseen, unheard and unacknowledged.

THE ULTIMATE GAY LOVE SONGS PLAYLIST FOR YOUR LGBTQ WEDDG

Osborne me out, beg the only openly gay untry artist currently signed to a major label, I have been listeng to Brothers Osborne more. Country artist Brian Falduto, bt known as the sassy scene-stealg gay kid om School of Rock, jt released the first sgle om his upg Gay Country EP.

“Same Old Country Love Song” is a te untry love song for gay guys, wh plenty of hot guys tight blue jeans. Don’t get me wrong – I am lovg all the new and excg sounds that are out there the days, particularly much of what’s g om emergg queer artists who are phg the envelope, ” Falduto said of his work on the upg Gay Country EP.

30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

”You n now stream or download “Same Old Country Love Song” by Brian Falduto off of his upg EP, Gay Country.

GAY COUNTRY

While the stereotype is that untry mic is about as far om gay-iendly as you n get, that’s not always the se.

That may be due to the lyrics, however, which tell the story of a gay man cshg on his straight iend. Though Sublette’s not gay himself, he lived on Christopher Street New York Cy, next door to a gay untry bar. And hey, was good enough for Pansy Divisn to ver for a Stop Homophobia pilatn 7″!

Freddy Freeman’s “I’m Here, I’m Queer and I’m Country” feels like a manifto for the gay untry mic fan. While Mgrav herself is straight, the song was -wrten wh Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, both openly gay Nashville songwrers.

” While the song was censored when she performed for the CMA Awards broadst, wasn’t the reference to homosexualy that was cut, but the reference to smokg a jot. No article on gay untry mic would be plete whout a mentn of Pat Haggerty, the lear of the first gay untry band Lavenr Country.

Rerd for a private-prs LP 1973, “Cry’ The Cocksuckg Tears” is a fearls prott song agast homophobia and sexism. 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.