T.J. Osborne, of Country Mic's Brothers Osborne, Com Out as Gay - Variety

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• T.J. OSBORNE OF THE BROTHERS OSBORNE PUBLICLY SHAR HE INTIFI AS GAY
• TJ OSBORNE OF BROTHERS OSBORNE COM OUT AS GAY: 'MY HAPPS IS MORE VALUABLE THAN ANYTHG ELSE'
• TJ OSBORNE COM OUT AS GAY
• T.J. OSBORNE, OPENLY GAY ARTIST ADVOTG FOR CLIVY, CELEBRAT CMA W BY KISSG BOYIEND
• COUNTRY STAR T.J. OSBORNE OF BROTHERS OSBORNE OUT AS GAY
• TENNSEE MEASURE HONORG GAY UNTRY STAR TJ OSBORNE BLOCKED BY REPUBLINS
• T.J. OSBORNE, OF COUNTRY MIC’S BROTHERS OSBORNE, COM OUT AS GAY
• TENNSEE MEASURE HONORG GAY COUNTRY STAR TJ OSBORNE BLOCKED BY HOE REPUBLINS
• SHOP 'GMA3' POWER HOUR ALS FOR LABOR DAY!OPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHCULTUREBROTHERS OSBORNE'S T.J. OSBORNE OUT AS GAY4:57TAKE OM ME': PROUD LGBTQ CELEBS SHARE THEIR MOST EMPOWERG ADVICE BYCARENA LIPTAKFEBARY 03, 2021, 2:33 PMT.J. OSBORNE, ONE HALF OF SIBLG DUO BROTHERS OSBORNE, DISCSED BEG GAY FOR THE FIRST TIME PUBLIC."THERE ARE TIM WHEN I THK I'VE MARGALIZED THIS PART OF ME SO THAT I FEEL BETTER ABOUT I REALIZE THAT IS A BIG PART OF WHO I AM: THE WAY I THK, THE WAY I ACT, THE WAY I PERFORM," HE EXPLAED A NEW TERVIEW WH TIME. "GOD, THK ABOUT ALL THE TIM THAT WE TALK ABOUT LOVE, AND WRE ABOUT LOVE. IT'S THE BIGGT THG WE EVER GET TO FEEL. AND I'VE KEPT THE VEIL ON."OSBORNE'S G OUT MARKS A HISTORIC MOMENT FOR THE GENRE, AS HE IS NOW THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ARTIST TO BE SIGNED TO A MAJOR UNTRY LABEL.EDOR’S PICKSJOJO SIWA ON BEG PART OF LGBTQ MUNY: 'I'M REALLY HAPPY'JAN 25, 2021ELLT PAGE THANKS SUPPORTERS 1ST POST SCE G OUT AS TRANSGENRDEC 21, 2020'RUPL'S DRAG RACE' MAK HISTORY WH 1ST TRANS MAN NTTANT SEASON 13DEC 09, 2020"YOU KNOW THAT THG -- STAND FOR SOMETHG, OR YOU'LL FALL FOR ANYTHG? THAT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHG SOMEONE UNTRY MIC WOULD SAY. BUT IF YOU STAND FOR SOMETHG AND 'S NOT WHAT THEY STAND FOR, THEN THEY HATE ," THE SGER, 36, ADD.OSBOURNE TOOK TO INSTAGRAM TO SHARE A VIO WHICH HE EXPLAED WHY WAS IMPORTANT FOR HIM TO TELL HIS STORY."THIS STORY ALWAYS SEEMED TOO MOUNTAO TO TELL BUT NOW THAT 'S BEEN TOLD I AM AT A LOSS FOR WORDS AS TO HOW CLEAR THE PATH WAS ALL ALONG," HE WROTE, THANKG "ALL OF THE PILLARS OF PEOPLE" AROUND HIM WHO HAVE STOOD BY HIM.JOHN OSBORNE AND T.J. OSBORNE OF BROTHER'S OSBORNE PERFORM AT MARATHON MIC WORKS ON MARCH 09, 2020, NASHVILLE.JASON KEMP/GETTY IMAG, FILEOSBORNE'S BROTHER AND BANDMATE, JOHN OSBORNE, ALSO VOIC HIS SUPPORT THE TERVIEW, SAYG THAT HIS BROTHER'S HAPPS AND ABILY TO LIVE THENTILLY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY REER TONE."IF I HAD TO HAVE ALL MY MONEY AND SUCCS ERASED FOR MY BROTHER TO BE TLY FULFILLED LIFE, I WOULDN'T EVEN THK ABOUT ," HE SAID. "NOT FOR A SEND."ANTHONY RAMOS, GLAAD'S HEAD OF TALENT, RPOND TO THE NEWS A STATEMENT, LLG OSBORNE'S G OUT "A MAJOR STEP FORWARD TO CREASE LGBTQ ACCEPTANCE AND CLN THE UNTRY MIC WORLD.""I HOPE THAT THE BS NTU TO REALIZE THAT THERE IS A SPACE FOR LGBTQ ARTISTS, AND THAT THEY N BE MERCIALLY SUCCSFUL," RAMOS SAID. "BROTHERS OSBORNE ARE ONE OF TODAY’S MOST SUCCSFUL UNTRY MIC ACTS AND T.J.’S CISN TO SHARE HIS TE AND THENTIC SELF WH THEIR MANY FANS HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE HEARTS AND MDS WHEN TO ACCEPTANCE FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY.”BROTHERS OSBORNE'S MOST RECENT STUD ALBUM, "SKELETONS," WAS RELEASED OCTOBER 2020. IT FEATUR THE LEAD SGLE "ALL NIGHT."RELATED TOPICSLGBTQEDOR’S PICKSJOJO SIWA ON BEG PART OF LGBTQ MUNY: 'I'M REALLY HAPPY'JAN 25, 2021ELLT PAGE THANKS SUPPORTERS 1ST POST SCE G OUT AS TRANSGENRDEC 21, 2020'RUPL'S DRAG RACE' MAK HISTORY WH 1ST TRANS MAN NTTANT SEASON 13DEC 09, 2020UP NEXT CULTURE—PRISCILLA PRLEY EMOTNALLY REFLECTS ON 'NNECTN' SHE SHARED WH ELVIS WHEN SHE WAS 14SEPTEMBER 5, 2023KEV BAN, KYRA SEDGWICK SHARE SWEET THROWBACKS FOR 35TH WEDDG ANNIVERSARY SEPTEMBER 5, 2023DEREK HOUGH SHAR SWEET VIO REPPG HONEYMOON WH HAYLEY ERBERT-HOUGHSEPTEMBER 5, 2023DIANA ROSS SGS 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' TO BEYONCE FOR SGER'S 42ND BIRTHDAYSEPTEMBER 5, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—PRISCILLA PRLEY EMOTNALLY REFLECTS ON 'NNECTN' SHE SHARED WH ELVIS WHEN SHE WAS 14SEPTEMBER 5, 2023KEV BAN, KYRA SEDGWICK SHARE SWEET THROWBACKS FOR 35TH WEDDG ANNIVERSARY SEPTEMBER 5, 2023DEREK HOUGH SHAR SWEET VIO REPPG HONEYMOON WH HAYLEY ERBERT-HOUGHSEPTEMBER 5, 2023DIANA ROSS SGS 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' TO BEYONCE FOR SGER'S 42ND BIRTHDAYSEPTEMBER 5, 2023

T.J. OSBORNE OF THE BROTHERS OSBORNE PUBLICLY SHAR HE INTIFI AS GAY

Osborne, the lead volist of Brothers Osborne, the band he formed wh his brother John Osborne, has publicly shared for the first time that he is gay.

“I’m very fortable beg gay, ” Osborne told the publitn, addg, “I fd myself beg guard for not wantg to talk about somethg that I personally don’t have a problem wh.

Osborne is currently the only openly gay artist signed to a major untry label, Time reports, wh Osborne sayg he’s “cur how this will go.

TJ OSBORNE OF BROTHERS OSBORNE COM OUT AS GAY: 'MY HAPPS IS MORE VALUABLE THAN ANYTHG ELSE'

In a Wednday terview wh Time, the mician me out as gay — and he has the unndnal support of his brother John, wh whom he forms the untry duo. "I'm very fortable beg gay, " the 36-year-old told the outlet, explag that he worried about g out an dtry that leans nservative.

After the release of their Grammy-nomated song "Stay a Ltle Longer, " the duo paired s mic vio wh imag of terracial and gay upl. In the terview, TJ explaed that he told his brother John, 38, he was gay around the time the two moved to Nashville after signg a publishg and rerd al. TJ Osborne Com Out as Gay.

Brothers Osborne sger-guarist TJ Osborne has publicly e out as gay, revealg the news an terview wh Time. Wh this revelatn, Osborne be the first openly gay man signed to a major untry label and one of the first mastream untry artists to e out the prime of their reer.

TJ OSBORNE COM OUT AS GAY

“I’m very fortable beg gay, ” Osborne told wrer Sam Lansky. TJ Osborne, the first openly gay mician signed to a major untry rerd label, ma history aga Wednday night by kissg his boyiend on natnal televisn at the Country Mic Assn. Earlier the telest, Osborne opened up about his journey to untry superstardom and the obstacl he has faced bee of the genre’s homophobia and lack of reprentatn for LGBTQ+ artists.

“I would watch this show year after year, and I always thought how credible would be, ” Osborne said while troducg the duo’s performance of “Younger Me, ” a song the 36-year-old wrote about growg up gay. “Let me tell you seeg an openly gay man w a #CMA award & the meras not cut away when he kissed his date, is not somethg I thought I’d see my lifetime, ” wrote Ante Miller. J., 36, is gay.

T.J. OSBORNE, OPENLY GAY ARTIST ADVOTG FOR CLIVY, CELEBRAT CMA W BY KISSG BOYIEND

“I’m very fortable beg gay, ” he says later, a quiet room at the office of his management pany. Be the only openly gay artist signed to a major untry label—a historic moment for the genre. Says, untry isn’t the most popular genre among gay people.

First told his brother that he is gay.

” As Brothers Osborne’s reer grew, they ma gtur toward cln, startg wh the vio for sgle “Stay a Ltle Longer, ” which featured gay and terracial upl. Even amid lls for greater cln, the homogeney of the top artists the genre is still strikg. Will nservative rad programmers or ral ncertgoers be as eager to play and tailgate a gay artist, even one they already know and love?

COUNTRY STAR T.J. OSBORNE OF BROTHERS OSBORNE OUT AS GAY

What if beg gay is a gift, and your gayns is not somethg to be tolerated but somethg to be celebrated, and even if untanglg the shame and nfn of growg up gay a straight world tak a long time, ’s worth dog so you n e your voice, not only to sg songs about cutoff jeans and hair blowg the breeze but to say, clearly and unapologetilly, that this is who you are? What if there are a lot of gay boys small towns who haven’t figured out yet and feel overwhelmed by snarky TV sikicks and gltery pop stars bellowg self-empowerment anthems, and what if those gay boys small towns got to have an avatar of their own—if they knew that someone like them was sgg that song about cutoff jeans and hair blowg the breeze on the rad?

” But what if beg gay is not a small tail? Osborne, who publicly shared for the first time Febary that he is gay, kissed his boyiend Abi Ventura after the w was announced whle his brother kissed his wife, Lucie Silvas. "While there are many other openly gay artists and songwrers currently workg untry mic, cludg Brandi Carlile, Brandy Clark, Brooke En, Shane McAnally and Lily Rose, Osborne is one of the most proment.

TENNSEE MEASURE HONORG GAY UNTRY STAR TJ OSBORNE BLOCKED BY REPUBLINS

"It kd of gave the msage that maybe people that are gay or LGBTQ really, tly still aren't that accepted this state, " T. Osborne has e out publicly as gay.

“I’m very fortable beg gay, ” the 36-year-old mician told Time magaze.

”Wh this news, Osborne is now the only mician signed to a major untry label who is publicly known to be gay. Brothers Osborne sger TJ Osborne me out as gay Febary, and brought his boyiend Abi Ventura to the 2021 CMA Awards.

T.J. OSBORNE, OF COUNTRY MIC’S BROTHERS OSBORNE, COM OUT AS GAY

" The "Stay a Ltle Longer" sger publicly me out as gay Febary. A measure Tennsee to honor Brothers Osborne sger TJ Osborne, who recently me out as gay, has been blocked by Republins the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ, after had unanimoly passed the Jeremy Faison, chair of the Hoe Republin Cc, is the lawmaker rponsible for blockg — and some say effectively killg — the measure.

Osborne’s fellow untry star Kacey Mgrav was among those registerg her dismay, wrg on Twter: “Massively disappoted TN Hoe Republins for blockg my iend @TJOsborne for beg honored bee HE’S GAY!? ”Maren Morris, who had Brothers Osborne llaborate on “All My Favore People” on her most recent album, retweeted the Tennsee Holler’s tweet, which said, “@JeremyFaison4TN and the @tnhoegop block a rolutn to honor out gay untry mic star TJ Osborne of the @brothersosborne for no reason other than blatant bigotry and spe.

Osborne is not the first untry mic artist to e out as gay, he is the first and currently only openly gay artist signed to a major untry label” and adds that “though may have been merely a nsequence of beg te to himself, he has nohels bee a trailblazer and a symbol of hope for those untry mic artists and fans alike who may have bee ostracized om a genre they hold ar.

TENNSEE MEASURE HONORG GAY COUNTRY STAR TJ OSBORNE BLOCKED BY HOE REPUBLINS

”Much to the chagr of the sizable gay muny Nashville and the untry mic dtry, Tennsee has bee renowned across the untry recent years for legislature like the so-lled “anti-gay adoptn bill, ” which allowed relig foster re and adoptn agenci to ntue to receive taxpayer fundg regardls of discrimatg agast prospective gay parents.

“I told [wrer Sam Lansky], ‘Beg gay is a very small part of who I am.

” A lot of say that when we’re g out, whether out of ternalized homophobia or some vague sense of obligatn to straight people.

SHOP 'GMA3' POWER HOUR ALS FOR LABOR DAY!OPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHCULTUREBROTHERS OSBORNE'S T.J. OSBORNE OUT AS GAY4:57TAKE OM ME': PROUD LGBTQ CELEBS SHARE THEIR MOST EMPOWERG ADVICE BYCARENA LIPTAKFEBARY 03, 2021, 2:33 PMT.J. OSBORNE, ONE HALF OF SIBLG DUO BROTHERS OSBORNE, DISCSED BEG GAY FOR THE FIRST TIME PUBLIC."THERE ARE TIM WHEN I THK I'VE MARGALIZED THIS PART OF ME SO THAT I FEEL BETTER ABOUT I REALIZE THAT IS A BIG PART OF WHO I AM: THE WAY I THK, THE WAY I ACT, THE WAY I PERFORM," HE EXPLAED A NEW TERVIEW WH TIME. "GOD, THK ABOUT ALL THE TIM THAT WE TALK ABOUT LOVE, AND WRE ABOUT LOVE. IT'S THE BIGGT THG WE EVER GET TO FEEL. AND I'VE KEPT THE VEIL ON."OSBORNE'S G OUT MARKS A HISTORIC MOMENT FOR THE GENRE, AS HE IS NOW THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ARTIST TO BE SIGNED TO A MAJOR UNTRY LABEL.EDOR’S PICKSJOJO SIWA ON BEG PART OF LGBTQ MUNY: 'I'M REALLY HAPPY'JAN 25, 2021ELLT PAGE THANKS SUPPORTERS 1ST POST SCE G OUT AS TRANSGENRDEC 21, 2020'RUPL'S DRAG RACE' MAK HISTORY WH 1ST TRANS MAN NTTANT SEASON 13DEC 09, 2020"YOU KNOW THAT THG -- STAND FOR SOMETHG, OR YOU'LL FALL FOR ANYTHG? THAT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHG SOMEONE UNTRY MIC WOULD SAY. BUT IF YOU STAND FOR SOMETHG AND 'S NOT WHAT THEY STAND FOR, THEN THEY HATE ," THE SGER, 36, ADD.OSBOURNE TOOK TO INSTAGRAM TO SHARE A VIO WHICH HE EXPLAED WHY WAS IMPORTANT FOR HIM TO TELL HIS STORY."THIS STORY ALWAYS SEEMED TOO MOUNTAO TO TELL BUT NOW THAT 'S BEEN TOLD I AM AT A LOSS FOR WORDS AS TO HOW CLEAR THE PATH WAS ALL ALONG," HE WROTE, THANKG "ALL OF THE PILLARS OF PEOPLE" AROUND HIM WHO HAVE STOOD BY HIM.JOHN OSBORNE AND T.J. OSBORNE OF BROTHER'S OSBORNE PERFORM AT MARATHON MIC WORKS ON MARCH 09, 2020, NASHVILLE.JASON KEMP/GETTY IMAG, FILEOSBORNE'S BROTHER AND BANDMATE, JOHN OSBORNE, ALSO VOIC HIS SUPPORT THE TERVIEW, SAYG THAT HIS BROTHER'S HAPPS AND ABILY TO LIVE THENTILLY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY REER TONE."IF I HAD TO HAVE ALL MY MONEY AND SUCCS ERASED FOR MY BROTHER TO BE TLY FULFILLED LIFE, I WOULDN'T EVEN THK ABOUT ," HE SAID. "NOT FOR A SEND."ANTHONY RAMOS, GLAAD'S HEAD OF TALENT, RPOND TO THE NEWS A STATEMENT, LLG OSBORNE'S G OUT "A MAJOR STEP FORWARD TO CREASE LGBTQ ACCEPTANCE AND CLN THE UNTRY MIC WORLD.""I HOPE THAT THE BS NTU TO REALIZE THAT THERE IS A SPACE FOR LGBTQ ARTISTS, AND THAT THEY N BE MERCIALLY SUCCSFUL," RAMOS SAID. "BROTHERS OSBORNE ARE ONE OF TODAY’S MOST SUCCSFUL UNTRY MIC ACTS AND T.J.’S CISN TO SHARE HIS TE AND THENTIC SELF WH THEIR MANY FANS HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE HEARTS AND MDS WHEN TO ACCEPTANCE FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY.”BROTHERS OSBORNE'S MOST RECENT STUD ALBUM, "SKELETONS," WAS RELEASED OCTOBER 2020. IT FEATUR THE LEAD SGLE "ALL NIGHT."RELATED TOPICSLGBTQEDOR’S PICKSJOJO SIWA ON BEG PART OF LGBTQ MUNY: 'I'M REALLY HAPPY'JAN 25, 2021ELLT PAGE THANKS SUPPORTERS 1ST POST SCE G OUT AS TRANSGENRDEC 21, 2020'RUPL'S DRAG RACE' MAK HISTORY WH 1ST TRANS MAN NTTANT SEASON 13DEC 09, 2020UP NEXT CULTURE—PRISCILLA PRLEY EMOTNALLY REFLECTS ON 'NNECTN' SHE SHARED WH ELVIS WHEN SHE WAS 14SEPTEMBER 5, 2023KEV BAN, KYRA SEDGWICK SHARE SWEET THROWBACKS FOR 35TH WEDDG ANNIVERSARY SEPTEMBER 5, 2023DEREK HOUGH SHAR SWEET VIO REPPG HONEYMOON WH HAYLEY ERBERT-HOUGHSEPTEMBER 5, 2023DIANA ROSS SGS 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' TO BEYONCE FOR SGER'S 42ND BIRTHDAYSEPTEMBER 5, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—PRISCILLA PRLEY EMOTNALLY REFLECTS ON 'NNECTN' SHE SHARED WH ELVIS WHEN SHE WAS 14SEPTEMBER 5, 2023KEV BAN, KYRA SEDGWICK SHARE SWEET THROWBACKS FOR 35TH WEDDG ANNIVERSARY SEPTEMBER 5, 2023DEREK HOUGH SHAR SWEET VIO REPPG HONEYMOON WH HAYLEY ERBERT-HOUGHSEPTEMBER 5, 2023DIANA ROSS SGS 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' TO BEYONCE FOR SGER'S 42ND BIRTHDAYSEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Osborne, lead sger of Brothers Osborne, the band he started wh his big brother John, is the first current, male, mastream untry artist to be openly gay. Osborne is somethg even rarer and more signifint than an out, gay, male, mastream untry artist; he’s a public figure who’s explorg those qutns of inty, real time, right out loud.

" Marvel, a untry songwrg veteran, is the proud dad of a gay son himself. “I thk that’s been a problem the gay muny, wh the preference beg for mascule men. ) One out gay rock star was a great leap forward, but R.

"And I want to see gay fans feelg good and wele and fortable those crowds.