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.

HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD

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.

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. 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.

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

30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

” 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.

GAY COUNTRY

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.

Brandi Carlile spent most of her childhood beg told that “to be gay was a one-way ticket to hell. ” She even had never met another gay person – until she watched Ellen DeGener’ historic 1997 “I’m gay” episo, which she rerd on a VHS tape so she uld watch repeatedly.

It was then that Carlile me to terms wh the fact that she was gay. However, thgs changed at the height of his reer when he me out as gay durg the last day of Pri Month 2019 through a seri of tweets and his song lled “c7osure. In 2014, the Nashville artist revealed to PEOPLE a part of himself he has kept secret for his entire reer: beg a “happy gay man.

Herndon said that Anthony Robbs’ semar 2009 sparked the urage for him to e out, thkg how his story might help terrified gay youth. “There is somethg very gay about the imagery of , ” the sger said.

Chely Wright beme one of the first untry sgers to e out as gay openly.

However, Oladokun was silently battlg si as she tried to rencile her fah wh the fact that she was gay, which she had been aware of at a young age.

Osborne, one half of the popular untry mic duo Brothers Osborne, had known he was gay sce “before I even unrstood what was. While he went through some hardships, like feelg very isolated his early days Nashville, he found the right moment to publicly e out as gay as the band’s reer picked up – and his announcement went off really well.

He has sce been nsired the pneerg gay untry mician. Haggerty knew he was gay om an early age. In his early 20s, he was discharged om the Peace Corps for beg gay, leadg him to bee a queer rights activist.