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Contents:
- 11 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
- HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD
- COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
- QUEER COUNTRY: LBIAN AND GAY MASTREAM COUNTRY ARTISTS? (BOOK EXCERPT)
- GAY WRIGHT 'ASHAMED' OF CEL ROMANCE WH PAISLEY
11 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
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. * female country singer who is gay *
The chos even exprs acceptance of weed and homosexualy, topics that are unfortunately still taboo mastream untry, pecially when sung by a woman.
I intify as gay, and I’ve never said that to anybody else.
In se you missed the news om 2021, the Brothers Osborne ontman me out as gay, sayg his fay and close iends have known for que some time, but he wants to be his full self at this pot his reer. Country mic has a lengthy and not-so-proud reputatn for beg tensely homophobic. Gay untry sgers were, sadly, not warmly weled.
HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD
Gay untry sgers are takg Nashville by storm, rvg out a space for LGBT love the rich history of the genre. * female country singer who is gay *
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. 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.
COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
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.
QUEER COUNTRY: LBIAN AND GAY MASTREAM COUNTRY ARTISTS? (BOOK EXCERPT)
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.
GAY WRIGHT 'ASHAMED' OF CEL ROMANCE WH PAISLEY
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.