Here Are Gay Country Sgers Who Stood Out Loud and Proud

Contents:

• 9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• 11 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• T.J. OSBORNE OF UNTRY MIC DUO BROTHERS OSBORNE OUT AS GAY
• HANK WILLIAMS JR.’S SON, SAM WILLIAMS, COM OUT AS GAY NEW MIC VIO + INTERVIEW
• HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD
• 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 HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY

9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

In se you missed the news om last year, 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.

Here are 9 untry artists/members of the untry mic world who have e out as gay over the years.

11 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

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.

Nashville native Cys is an unniable pop and rock star, fond of sgg vers by the Cranberri and Soundgarn, but her gut list at the Ryman was 100 percent untry: Brothers Osborne, Ltle Big Town, Mickey Guyton, Maren Morris, and the gay masked wboy Orville Peck. In juxtaposn to Wallen’s boorish behavr was Osborne’s vulnerable, public revelatn a Time magaze terview that he was gay. Bee the very ia of a gay untry star once seemed like a fantasy — the assumptn beg that untry mic’s fan base was overwhelmgly nservative and perhaps even bigoted.

T.J. OSBORNE OF UNTRY MIC DUO BROTHERS OSBORNE OUT AS GAY

“Gee Stra or Gee Gay, there’s no difference” go another le that has sce end up on a T-shirt. Homan, who’d left his ral Kansas home at 18 to e to Nashville to pursue both mic and an tn, hadn’t imaged there would be a time when the untry-mic dtry would be welg to gay artists.

“It was like, ‘I n ntue to be fortable and out and gay, or I n do untry mic, but I fely n’t do both, ’” he says. Now, midway through 2021, that dichotomy appears to be fallg apart as artists stop worryg how they’ll be perceived for beg gay. Osborne revealed a Time magaze terview on Wednday that he is 36-year-old volist for Brothers Osborne, a duo he started wh his brother, John, said he is "very fortable beg gay, " addg, however: "I fd myself beg guard for not wantg to talk about somethg that I personally don't have a problem wh.

HANK WILLIAMS JR.’S SON, SAM WILLIAMS, COM OUT AS GAY NEW MIC VIO + INTERVIEW

Osborne is not the first untry star to e out as gay, however, acrdg to Time, he is the only openly gay artist signed to a major untry label. " He also wonred if untry mic isn't popular among many gay people bee they've never had an opportuny to relate to . The brothers said they have ma subtle msag about cln their past work – for example, featurg gay and terracial upl a mic vio for "Stay a Ltle Longer" — and wasn't always well 's negative and sometim offensive reactns disuraged T.

's son, untry sger Sam Williams, has e out as gay the mic vio for his new song, "Tilted Crown, " and a subsequent terview. "Williams tells Kelly that his pronouns are he/him and that he intifi as gay.

HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD

11 Country Sgers Who've Come Out as 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. 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.

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It was then that Carlile me to terms wh the fact that she was gay. 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.

Herndon said that Anthony Robbs’ semar 2009 sparked the urage for him to e out, thkg how his story might help terrified gay youth.

“There is somethg very gay about the imagery of , ” the sger said. Chely Wright beme one of the first untry sgers to e out as gay openly. However, Oladokun was silently battlg si as she tried to rencile her fah wh the fact that she was gay, which she had been aware of at a young age.

COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY

Osborne, one half of the popular untry mic duo Brothers Osborne, had known he was gay sce “before I even unrstood what was. While he went through some hardships, like feelg very isolated his early days Nashville, he found the right moment to publicly e out as gay as the band’s reer picked up – and his announcement went off really well.

He has sce been nsired the pneerg gay untry mician.

Haggerty knew he was gay om an early age. In his early 20s, he was discharged om the Peace Corps for beg gay, leadg him to bee a queer rights activist.