TJ Osborne of Brothers Osborne Talks Beg First Openly Gay Country Sger to Be Signed to a Major Label | Entertament Tonight

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• 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
• COUNTRY MIC'S (NOT SO SECRET) GAY HISTORY
• TJ OSBORNE OF BROTHERS OSBORNE TALKS BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY COUNTRY SGER TO BE SIGNED TO A MAJOR LABEL
• COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
• SHOP 'GMA3' POWER HOUR ALS FOR LABOR DAY!OPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHCULTUREHOW UNTRY SGER CHRIS HOMAN IS SHOWG 'Y’ALL MEANS ALL' WH HIS MIC1:45WOMAN'S POWERFUL POST ON BEG A BLACK UNTRY MIC FAN GO BYCHRIS HOMANAPRIL 16, 2021, 4:02 AMYOU MIGHT NOT KNOW CHRIS HOMAN'S NAME YET, BUT THE PENNT UNTRY MIC SGER-SONGWRER IS MAKG WAV WH HIS NEW SONG, "BLUENECK" -- ONE HE SAID HE WISH HE HAD HEARD WHEN GROWG UP.THE SONG, WHICH DROPPED APRIL 7, FEATUR PROGRSIVE LYRICS -- PECIALLY FOR ONE THE GENRE -- SUCH AS: "CAN'T A UNTRY KID WANNA SEE THE GLASS CEILG SHATTER / WANNA SEE A WORLD WHERE BLACK LIV MATTER." EVEN JT THE TWO L TOUCH UPON THE NEED FOR BETTER REPRENTATN OF WOMEN AND BLACK ARTISTS UNTRY MIC, TWO POTS THAT HAVE BEEN DISCSED WILY RECENT YEARS.IN "BLUENECK," HOMAN, WHO IS GAY, SCRIB A PERSON LIKE HIMSELF, WHO IS A "LIBERAL REDNECK," SOMEONE WHO IS LIBERAL POLIL AND SOCIAL IOLOGY BUT LIV OR GREW UP A NSERVATIVE SETTG OR A "RED STATE."BELOW, HOMAN, 31, TRODUC HIMSELF TO THE WORLD A PERSONAL SAY FOR "GOOD MORNG AMERI," TAILG HIS JOURNEY LIFE TH FAR AND EXPLAG HOW, WH "BLUENECK," HE WANTS TO SHOW THAT UNTRY MIC N BE FOR EVERYONE. AS HE SGS, "I THK Y'ALL MEANS ALL AND I KNOW WE ALL / JT WANNA KNOW THAT WE BELONG."GROWG UP AS A GAY KID IMMERSED UNTRY MIC, ON A KANSAS FARM NEAR A TOWN OF ONLY ABOUT 200 PEOPLE, I CERTALY ALWAYS FELT DIFFERENT.WHILE I LOVED THE '90S UNTRY SONGS I WAS HEARG ON THE RAD AND PERFORMG AT SHOWS STARTG AT THE AGE OF 7, I KNEW EP DOWN THAT THEY NEVER TOTALLY APPLIED TO ME. IN "BLUENECK" -- MY NEW SONG THAT WENT VIRAL ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA APP TIKTOK AND WAS THE NO. 1 SELLG UNTRY SONG ON ITUN FOR A TIME LAST WEEK -- I WROTE THE SONG I WISH THAT I HAD HEARD GROWG UP. ONE WHICH, AS A LE THE CHOS SAYS, "Y'ALL MEANS ALL."AFTER G OUT AT 18 -- HAVG NEVER MET AN OPENLY GAY PERSON BEFORE -- I MOVED TO NASHVILLE TO ATTEND BELMONT UNIVERSY AND PURSUE MIC. BUT I QUICKLY HAD A REALIZATN: I ULD NTUE TO CHASE THE UNTRY MIC DREAM, OR I ULD LIVE MY H, OPENLY QUEER SK.I CERTALY DIDN'T THK I ULD DO BOTH. WHY WOULD I? I HAD NEVER SEEN DONE BEFORE OM AN UNKNOWN AND UNSIGNED ARTIST. SO I PUT MIC ON THE BACK BURNER FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS WHILE I GRADUALLY GOT MORE FORTABLE WH MYSELF.IN 2014, MY WORLD WAS FLIPPED UPSI DOWN WHEN I BROKE MY NECK A EAK FLATABLE WATERSLI ACCINT. AFTER ONE WEEK ICU AND A NE-HOUR SPAL FN SURGERY -- DURG WHICH I LOST NTROL OF THE LEFT SI OF MY BODY AT ONE POT -- I WAS SO CREDIBLY FORTUNATE TO BE ABLE TO WALK, WH HELP, OUT OF THE HOSPAL.TO SAY THAT EXPERIENCE WAS EYE-OPENG WOULD BE A MASSIVE UNRSTATEMENT. I REMEMBER CRYG TO A SPOONFUL OF MARONI AND CHEE, SO EXCED THAT I WAS ABLE TO FEED MYSELF -- EVEN IF I BARELY HAD ENOUGH STRENGTH TO DO SO. I SPENT THE NEXT THREE MONTHS A NECK BRACE AND ANOTHER THREE MONTHS AFTER THAT SLOWLY REGAG MY STRENGTH. BUT THE STRONGT THG I VELOPED OM THAT TRAGEDY WAS MY NEWFOUND PERSPECTIVE ON LIFE.I REMEMBERED THAT I HAD E TO NASHVILLE TO SG, PERFORM AND WRE SONGS -- NOT TO WORK A 9-TO-5 STG AT A PUTER ALL DAY LIKE I WAS DOG AT THE TIME. I JUMPED AT THE FIRST CHANCE TO LEAVE MY SK JOB AND PLAY SHOWS FOR A LIVG, TOURG ACROSS THE UNTRY AND PLAYG AT 150-PL LLEG.WHEN THE LLEGE SHOWS SLOWED DOWN, I FOCED ON -WRG WH OTHER SONGWRERS TOWN -- WHICH I WOULD DO EVERY DAY, UNPAID, BEFORE WAG TABL AT NIGHT TO PAY THE BILLS. THOUGH ONLY PART-TIME NOW, I STILL WA TABL.AS I NTUED TO GROW TO MYSELF -- PECIALLY THIS WILD LAST YEAR -- I STARTED TO UNRSTAND THAT I ACTUALLY HAD QUE A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THE GENRE THAT CLAIMS TO BE "THREE CHORDS AND THE TTH” YET SHUTS OUT A LOT OF TTHS OM BEG TOLD. AS SOMEONE WHO SPENT A LARGE PORTN OF MY LIFE FEELG EXCLUD OM UNTRY, WHERE THE WORD "EEDOM” IS ED AND IDOLIZED EQUENTLY, I SAW AN OPPORTUNY AND NEED FOR CHANGE THAT WOULD MAKE SOME MORE FOLKS CLUD, EE AND SAFE TO BE THEMSELV.SO WHILE THE OVERWHELMGLY POSIVE RPONSE -- MORE THAN 4 LN LLECTIVE VIEWS AND NEARLY 100,000 FOLLOWERS ON TIKTOK -- TO THE SONG I WROTE ABOUT BEG A "RED STATE BLUENECK” JT A MONTH AGO HAS BEEN A PLEASANT SURPRISE, ALSO MAK PLETE SENSE THAT SO MANY PEOPLE WOULD FEEL SEEN WHEN GIVEN A SPACE THAT THEY'VE NEVER BEEN ALLOWED TO SHE BEFORE.THIS "BLUENECK” HAS SO MUCH MORE TO SAY, AND N'T WA TO MAKE THE "Y'ALL" UNTRY MIC FALLY MEAN "ALL."YOU N FOLLOW CHRIS HOMAN ON FACEBOOK, TWTER AND TIKTOK. "BLUENECK" IS AVAILABLE ON SPOTIFY AND ON ITUN.UP NEXT CULTURE—KRIST CHENOWETH MARRI JOSH BRYANT TEXAS WEDDGSEPTEMBER 4, 2023STEVE HARWELL, FORMER LEAD SGER OF SMASH MOUTH, DI AT 56SEPTEMBER 4, 2023CO GFF MAK HISTORY AT US OPEN AS SHE HEADS TO THE QUARTERFALSSEPTEMBER 4, 2023SIMONE BIL AND HBAND JONATHAN OWENS SHARE PROGRS ON NEW HOME THEY'RE BUILDG SEPTEMBER 4, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—KRIST CHENOWETH MARRI JOSH BRYANT TEXAS WEDDGSEPTEMBER 4, 2023STEVE HARWELL, FORMER LEAD SGER OF SMASH MOUTH, DI AT 56SEPTEMBER 4, 2023CO GFF MAK HISTORY AT US OPEN AS SHE HEADS TO THE QUARTERFALSSEPTEMBER 4, 2023SIMONE BIL AND HBAND JONATHAN OWENS SHARE PROGRS ON NEW HOME THEY'RE BUILDG SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

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

Gay Male Country Sgers. He me out as gay last Febary makg him, the words of wikipedia, “the first openly gay artist signed to a major untry mic label”.

COUNTRY MIC'S (NOT SO SECRET) GAY HISTORY

Lookg for a list of gay male untry sgers?

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

Their stars may not be as bright as untry stars such as Garth Brooks, Keh Urban, and our favore untry sger Blake Shelton but the gay untry sgers are jt as talented.

Anyhoo, let’s start our list wh:Steve Grand: Male mol-turned-openly-gay-untry-sger om Lemont, Illois is the breakout star of 2013. Canadian untry sger Drake Jensen married partner Michael Mor 2008 and publicly me out as gay four years later by releasg a mic vio for the sgle, On My Way to Fdg You, which featured his hband.

COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY

Drake dited the song to a gay Ottawa teen, Jamie Hubley, who mted suici bee of about his sexualy (via Towleroad): “As a child I always knew there was somethg different about me above and beyond the gay thg. I’m a homosexual mician tellg my story through songs and spreadg the msage of love. Next our list of gay male untry sgers is Brian Glenn who performed wh big untry stars such as Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Reba McEntire, Patty Lovels, and his favore of them all Dolly says of his experience sgg wh Dolly (via the Wdy Cy Tim): “It will be one of the greatt moments mic to date for me—backg up Dolly Parton.

”In 2002, Glenn joed Marty Stuart’s band, The Fabulo Superlativ, and me out to Marty who apparently didn’t md if Glenn is gay or straight.

SHOP 'GMA3' POWER HOUR ALS FOR LABOR DAY!OPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHCULTUREHOW UNTRY SGER CHRIS HOMAN IS SHOWG 'Y’ALL MEANS ALL' WH HIS MIC1:45WOMAN'S POWERFUL POST ON BEG A BLACK UNTRY MIC FAN GO BYCHRIS HOMANAPRIL 16, 2021, 4:02 AMYOU MIGHT NOT KNOW CHRIS HOMAN'S NAME YET, BUT THE PENNT UNTRY MIC SGER-SONGWRER IS MAKG WAV WH HIS NEW SONG, "BLUENECK" -- ONE HE SAID HE WISH HE HAD HEARD WHEN GROWG UP.THE SONG, WHICH DROPPED APRIL 7, FEATUR PROGRSIVE LYRICS -- PECIALLY FOR ONE THE GENRE -- SUCH AS: "CAN'T A UNTRY KID WANNA SEE THE GLASS CEILG SHATTER / WANNA SEE A WORLD WHERE BLACK LIV MATTER." EVEN JT THE TWO L TOUCH UPON THE NEED FOR BETTER REPRENTATN OF WOMEN AND BLACK ARTISTS UNTRY MIC, TWO POTS THAT HAVE BEEN DISCSED WILY RECENT YEARS.IN "BLUENECK," HOMAN, WHO IS GAY, SCRIB A PERSON LIKE HIMSELF, WHO IS A "LIBERAL REDNECK," SOMEONE WHO IS LIBERAL POLIL AND SOCIAL IOLOGY BUT LIV OR GREW UP A NSERVATIVE SETTG OR A "RED STATE."BELOW, HOMAN, 31, TRODUC HIMSELF TO THE WORLD A PERSONAL SAY FOR "GOOD MORNG AMERI," TAILG HIS JOURNEY LIFE TH FAR AND EXPLAG HOW, WH "BLUENECK," HE WANTS TO SHOW THAT UNTRY MIC N BE FOR EVERYONE. AS HE SGS, "I THK Y'ALL MEANS ALL AND I KNOW WE ALL / JT WANNA KNOW THAT WE BELONG."GROWG UP AS A GAY KID IMMERSED UNTRY MIC, ON A KANSAS FARM NEAR A TOWN OF ONLY ABOUT 200 PEOPLE, I CERTALY ALWAYS FELT DIFFERENT.WHILE I LOVED THE '90S UNTRY SONGS I WAS HEARG ON THE RAD AND PERFORMG AT SHOWS STARTG AT THE AGE OF 7, I KNEW EP DOWN THAT THEY NEVER TOTALLY APPLIED TO ME. IN "BLUENECK" -- MY NEW SONG THAT WENT VIRAL ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA APP TIKTOK AND WAS THE NO. 1 SELLG UNTRY SONG ON ITUN FOR A TIME LAST WEEK -- I WROTE THE SONG I WISH THAT I HAD HEARD GROWG UP. ONE WHICH, AS A LE THE CHOS SAYS, "Y'ALL MEANS ALL."AFTER G OUT AT 18 -- HAVG NEVER MET AN OPENLY GAY PERSON BEFORE -- I MOVED TO NASHVILLE TO ATTEND BELMONT UNIVERSY AND PURSUE MIC. BUT I QUICKLY HAD A REALIZATN: I ULD NTUE TO CHASE THE UNTRY MIC DREAM, OR I ULD LIVE MY H, OPENLY QUEER SK.I CERTALY DIDN'T THK I ULD DO BOTH. WHY WOULD I? I HAD NEVER SEEN DONE BEFORE OM AN UNKNOWN AND UNSIGNED ARTIST. SO I PUT MIC ON THE BACK BURNER FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS WHILE I GRADUALLY GOT MORE FORTABLE WH MYSELF.IN 2014, MY WORLD WAS FLIPPED UPSI DOWN WHEN I BROKE MY NECK A EAK FLATABLE WATERSLI ACCINT. AFTER ONE WEEK ICU AND A NE-HOUR SPAL FN SURGERY -- DURG WHICH I LOST NTROL OF THE LEFT SI OF MY BODY AT ONE POT -- I WAS SO CREDIBLY FORTUNATE TO BE ABLE TO WALK, WH HELP, OUT OF THE HOSPAL.TO SAY THAT EXPERIENCE WAS EYE-OPENG WOULD BE A MASSIVE UNRSTATEMENT. I REMEMBER CRYG TO A SPOONFUL OF MARONI AND CHEE, SO EXCED THAT I WAS ABLE TO FEED MYSELF -- EVEN IF I BARELY HAD ENOUGH STRENGTH TO DO SO. I SPENT THE NEXT THREE MONTHS A NECK BRACE AND ANOTHER THREE MONTHS AFTER THAT SLOWLY REGAG MY STRENGTH. BUT THE STRONGT THG I VELOPED OM THAT TRAGEDY WAS MY NEWFOUND PERSPECTIVE ON LIFE.I REMEMBERED THAT I HAD E TO NASHVILLE TO SG, PERFORM AND WRE SONGS -- NOT TO WORK A 9-TO-5 STG AT A PUTER ALL DAY LIKE I WAS DOG AT THE TIME. I JUMPED AT THE FIRST CHANCE TO LEAVE MY SK JOB AND PLAY SHOWS FOR A LIVG, TOURG ACROSS THE UNTRY AND PLAYG AT 150-PL LLEG.WHEN THE LLEGE SHOWS SLOWED DOWN, I FOCED ON -WRG WH OTHER SONGWRERS TOWN -- WHICH I WOULD DO EVERY DAY, UNPAID, BEFORE WAG TABL AT NIGHT TO PAY THE BILLS. THOUGH ONLY PART-TIME NOW, I STILL WA TABL.AS I NTUED TO GROW TO MYSELF -- PECIALLY THIS WILD LAST YEAR -- I STARTED TO UNRSTAND THAT I ACTUALLY HAD QUE A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THE GENRE THAT CLAIMS TO BE "THREE CHORDS AND THE TTH” YET SHUTS OUT A LOT OF TTHS OM BEG TOLD. AS SOMEONE WHO SPENT A LARGE PORTN OF MY LIFE FEELG EXCLUD OM UNTRY, WHERE THE WORD "EEDOM” IS ED AND IDOLIZED EQUENTLY, I SAW AN OPPORTUNY AND NEED FOR CHANGE THAT WOULD MAKE SOME MORE FOLKS CLUD, EE AND SAFE TO BE THEMSELV.SO WHILE THE OVERWHELMGLY POSIVE RPONSE -- MORE THAN 4 LN LLECTIVE VIEWS AND NEARLY 100,000 FOLLOWERS ON TIKTOK -- TO THE SONG I WROTE ABOUT BEG A "RED STATE BLUENECK” JT A MONTH AGO HAS BEEN A PLEASANT SURPRISE, ALSO MAK PLETE SENSE THAT SO MANY PEOPLE WOULD FEEL SEEN WHEN GIVEN A SPACE THAT THEY'VE NEVER BEEN ALLOWED TO SHE BEFORE.THIS "BLUENECK” HAS SO MUCH MORE TO SAY, AND N'T WA TO MAKE THE "Y'ALL" UNTRY MIC FALLY MEAN "ALL."YOU N FOLLOW CHRIS HOMAN ON FACEBOOK, TWTER AND TIKTOK. "BLUENECK" IS AVAILABLE ON SPOTIFY AND ON ITUN.UP NEXT CULTURE—KRIST CHENOWETH MARRI JOSH BRYANT TEXAS WEDDGSEPTEMBER 4, 2023STEVE HARWELL, FORMER LEAD SGER OF SMASH MOUTH, DI AT 56SEPTEMBER 4, 2023CO GFF MAK HISTORY AT US OPEN AS SHE HEADS TO THE QUARTERFALSSEPTEMBER 4, 2023SIMONE BIL AND HBAND JONATHAN OWENS SHARE PROGRS ON NEW HOME THEY'RE BUILDG SEPTEMBER 4, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—KRIST CHENOWETH MARRI JOSH BRYANT TEXAS WEDDGSEPTEMBER 4, 2023STEVE HARWELL, FORMER LEAD SGER OF SMASH MOUTH, DI AT 56SEPTEMBER 4, 2023CO GFF MAK HISTORY AT US OPEN AS SHE HEADS TO THE QUARTERFALSSEPTEMBER 4, 2023SIMONE BIL AND HBAND JONATHAN OWENS SHARE PROGRS ON NEW HOME THEY'RE BUILDG SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Remember this was more than a ago when gays were still aaid to e Brian of tourg wh The Fabulo Superlativ (via Wdy Cy Tim): “I love tourg wh Marty.

[The band] beme aware [that I was gay] about three or four months to [my time wh the band], the fall of 2002, and hasn’t been a signifint enough of a problem for anyone to be replaced.

When I cid that I wanted Marty to know that [I was gay], I certaly was apprehensive and prepared for the worst. The Stranger tells more about Lavenr untry: “Lavenr Country—wh the origal lp of lead sger and guarist Patrick Haggerty, keyboardist Michael Carr, volist and fiddle-player Eve Morris, and lead guarist Robert Hammerstrom — formed Seattle 1972, and their self-tled 1973 album is regnized as the first gay-themed untry album ever.