WA’s pneerg gay untry band Lavenr Country releas first new album 50 years | The Seattle Tim

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• HE RELEASED ONE OF THE FIRST GAY UNTRY ALBUMS. NEARLY 50 YEARS LATER, HE'S STILL SGG
• ‘I’M HERE, I’M QUEER AND I’M COUNTRY’: THE TOP 5 GAY COUNTRY SONGS
• 9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
• COME OUT SGG! 2: LAVENR COUNTRY — MUCH MORE THAN THE FIRST GAY COUNTRY ALBUM
• HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD
• WA’S PNEERG GAY UNTRY BAND LAVENR COUNTRY RELEAS FIRST NEW ALBUM 50 YEARS
• MAN BEHD 'WORLD'S FIRST GAY UNTRY ALBUM' TOURS UNTRY NEARLY 50 YEARS AFTER FIRST ALBUM RELEASE
• GAY COUNTRY

HE RELEASED ONE OF THE FIRST GAY UNTRY ALBUMS. NEARLY 50 YEARS LATER, HE'S STILL SGG

” That same year, Billy Gilman (who found succs untry mic as a child wh songs cludg “One Voice”) also me out publicly as gay.

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

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.

9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

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.

Hailg om the Pacific Northwt, Haggerty's 1973 self-tled LP unr the Lavenr Country banner is generally nsired to be the first openly gay untry half a century later, still sounds bracgly timate and morn, the unvarnished mgs om a member of the Stonewall Haggerty, now 78, said he hears somethg different.

COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY

"Blackberry Rose, " Lavenr Country's sophomore album self-released by the band 2019, is beg released by New Bnswick-born Don Gvanni Rerds on Feb.

"And the last 10 years pecially, and even gog back to the last 20 years, there’s been a plete explosn of gay untry artists, many of whom I have done shows wh and know and have met, and ’s really que rehg to see them e up.

COME OUT SGG! 2: LAVENR COUNTRY — MUCH MORE THAN THE FIRST GAY COUNTRY ALBUM

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.

HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD

Freddy Freeman’s “I’m Here, I’m Queer and I’m Country” feels like a manifto for the gay untry mic fan.

WA’S PNEERG GAY UNTRY BAND LAVENR COUNTRY RELEAS FIRST NEW ALBUM 50 YEARS

While Mgrav herself is straight, the song was -wrten wh Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, both openly gay Nashville songwrers.

MAN BEHD 'WORLD'S FIRST GAY UNTRY ALBUM' TOURS UNTRY NEARLY 50 YEARS AFTER FIRST ALBUM RELEASE

” 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.

GAY COUNTRY

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.