Willie Nelson on Gay Marriage: ‘I’d Never Marry a Guy I Didn’t Like’

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• WILLIE NELSON ON GAY MARRIAGE: ‘IT’S ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS’
• WILLIE NELSON ON GAY MARRIAGE: ‘I’D NEVER MARRY A GUY I DIDN’T LIKE’
• WILLIE NELSON: GAY-RIGHTS ADVOTE, FIFTH-DEGREE BLACK BELT, WIZARD
• WILLIE NELSON: “DISCRIMATN AGAST THE LGBT COMMUNY IS NOT WHAT TEXAS IS ALL ABOUT"{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CELEBRIBY EVAN ROSS KATZJUNE 3, 2015/10:41 AMBY EVAN ROSS KATZJUNE 3, 2015 / 10:41 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"WILLIE NELSON: “DISCRIMATN AGAST THE LGBT COMMUNY IS NOT WHAT TEXAS IS ALL ABOUT\"","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-06-03T14:41:09.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-06-03T14:41:09.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"EVAN ROSS KATZ","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WILLIE NELSON HAS LONG BEEN AN ALLY TO THE LGBT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2006, SPIRED BY THE G OUT OF HIS IEND AND TOUR MANAGER OF THIRTY YEARS, DAVID ANRSON, WILLIE RELEASED A VER OF THE SONG "COWBOYS ARE FREQUENTLY, SECRETLY FOND OF EACH OTHER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE ACPANYG VIO WAS SHOT AT DALLAS' GAY WBOY BAR THE ROUND UP SALOON, AND FEATURED BURT REYNOLD (NOT TO MENTN A TON OF HUNKY GAY WBOYS).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THIS SONG OBVLY HAS SPECIAL MEANG TO ME MORE WAYS THAN ONE," SAID ANRSON. "I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW MORE THAN ANYTHG—GAY, STRAIGHT, WHATEVER—JT HOW OL WILLIE IS AND… HIS WAY OF THKG, HIS TOLERANCE, EVERYTHG ABOUT HIM."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NOW, NEARLY TEN YEARS LATER, NELSON IS NTUG TO FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT, JOG TEXAS WS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FROM THE TEXAS WS MPAIGN:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON DISCRIMATN, THE OUTSPOKEN MICIAN SAID, “DISCRIMATN AGAST THE LGBT MUNY NOT WHAT TEXAS IS ALL ABOUT. AND THAT’S WHY I’M THRILLED TO SUPPORT TEXAS WS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WILLIE’S ENDORSEMENT IS CRIL, AND FURTHER MONSTRAT THAT A MAJORY OF TEXANS SUPPORT MON-SENSE NON-DISCRIMATN PROTECTNS THAT CLU SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TEXAS HAS A PROUD TRADN OF EMBRACG GGED DIVIDUALISM, EEDOM AND EQUALY, AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT OUR MPAIGN IS ALL ABOUT. WILLIE’S STATEMENT ATTTS TO THE STRONG TEXAS VALU THAT MAK OUR STATE SO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BRAVO, WILLIE!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• WILLIE NELSON SGS VOICE OF GAY WBOY

WILLIE NELSON ON GAY MARRIAGE: ‘IT’S ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS’

Willie Nelson on Gay Marriage: ‘It’s About Human Rights’. “It’s ridiculo to me that this is somethg we’re havg a nversatn about this day and age, ” Nelson told Texas Monthly recently, addg that he has been closely followg the two Supreme Court heargs on gay marriage.

“I’ve known straight and gay people all my life. Nelson said he’s never seen any reason why same-sex upl shouldn’t be allowed to wed – “[gay people] should be jt as miserable as the rt of , ” he joked – and uldn’t believe that such a qutn was still beg bated so fiercely. “[Gay people] should be jt as miserable as the rt of , ” quipped Nelson, before givg a more nuanced explanatn of what he says has been a life-long, unwaverg belief that all people serve equal protectn unr the the terview, and jt before headg to At’s ACL Live at the Moody Theater to play a fundraiser for the Darrell K Royal Rearch Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease, Nelson posed for a Texas Monthly photographer wh a seri of signs created by the At-based sign agency Helms Workshop and prted by At’s East End Ink.

The first is a straightforward reproductn of the pk equal sign—the logo of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr advocy group the Human Rights Campaign—that has gone viral on Facebook and Twter over the past few days. Texas Monthly: You’re closely followg the Supreme Court’s nsiratn of gay rights and same-sex Nelson: I am.

WILLIE NELSON ON GAY MARRIAGE: ‘I’D NEVER MARRY A GUY I DIDN’T LIKE’

I’ve known straight and gay people all my life.

WILLIE NELSON: GAY-RIGHTS ADVOTE, FIFTH-DEGREE BLACK BELT, WIZARD

Gay or straight? Nelson recently opened up on his views of the Supreme Court's nsiratn of gay rights and same-sex marriage, and he was his ual 'Shotgun Willie' self. I've known straight and gay people all my life.

"I’ve known straight and gay people all my life. The 82-year-old outlaw-untry-mic kg and gay-rights advote Willie Nelson isn't jt alive and kickg, he's kickg through boards.

You're a supporter of gay rights. Gay people should be jt as miserable as the rt of [lghs]. "The acpanyg vio was shot at Dallas' gay wboy bar the Round Up Saloon, and featured Burt Reynold (not to mentn a ton of hunky gay wboys).

WILLIE NELSON: “DISCRIMATN AGAST THE LGBT COMMUNY IS NOT WHAT TEXAS IS ALL ABOUT"{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CELEBRIBY EVAN ROSS KATZJUNE 3, 2015/10:41 AMBY EVAN ROSS KATZJUNE 3, 2015 / 10:41 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"WILLIE NELSON: “DISCRIMATN AGAST THE LGBT COMMUNY IS NOT WHAT TEXAS IS ALL ABOUT\"","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-06-03T14:41:09.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-06-03T14:41:09.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"EVAN ROSS KATZ","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WILLIE NELSON HAS LONG BEEN AN ALLY TO THE LGBT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2006, SPIRED BY THE G OUT OF HIS IEND AND TOUR MANAGER OF THIRTY YEARS, DAVID ANRSON, WILLIE RELEASED A VER OF THE SONG "COWBOYS ARE FREQUENTLY, SECRETLY FOND OF EACH OTHER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE ACPANYG VIO WAS SHOT AT DALLAS' GAY WBOY BAR THE ROUND UP SALOON, AND FEATURED BURT REYNOLD (NOT TO MENTN A TON OF HUNKY GAY WBOYS).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THIS SONG OBVLY HAS SPECIAL MEANG TO ME MORE WAYS THAN ONE," SAID ANRSON. "I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW MORE THAN ANYTHG—GAY, STRAIGHT, WHATEVER—JT HOW OL WILLIE IS AND… HIS WAY OF THKG, HIS TOLERANCE, EVERYTHG ABOUT HIM."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NOW, NEARLY TEN YEARS LATER, NELSON IS NTUG TO FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT, JOG TEXAS WS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FROM THE TEXAS WS MPAIGN:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON DISCRIMATN, THE OUTSPOKEN MICIAN SAID, “DISCRIMATN AGAST THE LGBT MUNY NOT WHAT TEXAS IS ALL ABOUT. AND THAT’S WHY I’M THRILLED TO SUPPORT TEXAS WS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WILLIE’S ENDORSEMENT IS CRIL, AND FURTHER MONSTRAT THAT A MAJORY OF TEXANS SUPPORT MON-SENSE NON-DISCRIMATN PROTECTNS THAT CLU SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TEXAS HAS A PROUD TRADN OF EMBRACG GGED DIVIDUALISM, EEDOM AND EQUALY, AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT OUR MPAIGN IS ALL ABOUT. WILLIE’S STATEMENT ATTTS TO THE STRONG TEXAS VALU THAT MAK OUR STATE SO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BRAVO, WILLIE!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

"I want people to know more than anythg—gay, straight, whatever—jt how ol Willie is and… his way of thkg, his tolerance, everythg about him.

Barely two years later, the nservative nt and uncle who raised Waylon threw him out of the hoe for beg gay. When I was eighteen, I got expelled om llege for beg gay, and there was some stuff that had been gog on the fay that was kd of tragic.

WILLIE NELSON SGS VOICE OF GAY WBOY

Songfacts®:Long before Brokeback Mounta, this song explored the subject of Cowboy homosexualy, but a very humoro way. Wrten and origally rerd 1981 by Ned Sublette, the song mak that se that many wboys are, fact, gay. Sublette pots out the leather and boots as evince, and how those who get most upset about homosexualy are often gay had a tape of Sublette's versn, and often played to iends to get a good lgh.