Contents:
- 9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
- 11 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
- TJ OSBORNE OF BROTHERS OSBORNE TALKS BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY COUNTRY SGER TO BE SIGNED TO A MAJOR LABEL
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. 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. “Gee Stra or Gee Gay, there’s no difference” go another le that has sce end up on a T-shirt.
11 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
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.
TJ OSBORNE OF BROTHERS OSBORNE TALKS BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY COUNTRY SGER TO BE SIGNED TO A MAJOR LABEL
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. Osborne of untry mic duo Brothers Osborne is publicly discsg beg gay for the first time, and sharg how he feels about markg a historic moment the genre when to beg the only openly gay artist signed to a major untry label.
In a new terview wh Time, the 36-year-old sger says he's known he was gay sce he was young and that he has been out to iends and fay for years. "I'm very fortable beg gay, " he says. "As for how beg gay might potentially affect his and his brother, John's, reer as the popular duo Brothers Osborne, 38-year-old John says he uldn't re ls.
"He is now the only openly gay artist signed to a major untry mic label, and I hope that the bs ntu to realize that there is a space for LGBTQ artists, and that they n be mercially succsful. Jonathan Bent on Portrayg First Gay Couple Hallmark Movie.