Gay untry sgers are takg Nashville by storm, rvg out a space for LGBT love the rich history of the genre.
Contents:
- COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
- THE GAY SONGWRERS WHO SECRETLY LED THE UNTRY CHARTS ARE READY FOR THE SPOTLIGHT
- GAY WEDDG - WALK DOWN THE AISLE SONG
COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
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That he’s gay is “the least tertg thg about [him], ” Peck said. Sgg gay love songs once killed the reers of artists like Patrick Haggerty, whose band Lavenr Country 1973 released what’s wily nsired the first untry album rerd by an out gay performer.
Osborne, one half of the Brothers Osbourne, me out last year, the first out gay artist signed to a major untry label. In 1973, years after the Peace Corps kicked him out for beg gay, he released his first rerd.
” His lyrics, fiant and heartwrenchg, nmned the racism and homophobia that supprsed Haggerty and his bandmat. In 2014, the producer end up rereleasg the rerd, once only available by orrg om the backpag of Seattle’s gay newspaper. He views Lavenr Country as a “revolutnary obligatn” he’s bound to, now that he’s fally got a platform and a willg dience for his songs about racism, homophobia and the fltl Amerin society.
THE GAY SONGWRERS WHO SECRETLY LED THE UNTRY CHARTS ARE READY FOR THE SPOTLIGHT
The band’s first album, also lled “Lavenr Country, ” was one of the first untry albums wh outwardly gay them, acrdg to Billboard.
GAY WEDDG - WALK DOWN THE AISLE SONG
The album, origally released 1973, clus songs wh lyrics about queer sire and homophobia. hen Brandy Clark lnched a untry-mic rerdg reer 2013, there wasn’t any template to follow for an openly gay artist Nashville. Clark has been at the foreont of that shift and creds her iendship wh Shane McAnally — one of Nashville’s most succsful songwrers, who is also gay — wh givg her the nfince to pursue a solo reer.