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Contents:
- HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD
- LIL NAS X MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK ARTIST TO W AT CMA AWARDS
- COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
- 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD
Country mic has a lengthy reputatn for beg tensely homophobic. Gay untry sgers were, sadly, not warmly weled. Still, some stood out loud and proud. * black gay country artist *
The band’s first album, also lled “Lavenr Country, ” was one of the first untry albums wh outwardly gay them, acrdg to Billboard.
LIL NAS X MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK ARTIST TO W AT CMA AWARDS
* black gay country artist *
The album, origally released 1973, clus songs wh lyrics about queer sire and homophobia.
COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
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.
40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
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.