Orville Peck opens up about beg a gay untry artist, his queer fans and wrg his first love song.
Contents:
- COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
- MASKED SGER ORVILLE PECK ON BEG OPENLY GAY COUNTRY MIC: ‘WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN THERE’
COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
hen Brandy Clark lnched a untry-mic rerdg reer 2013, there wasn’t any template to follow for an openly gay artist Nashville. Clark has been at the foreont of that shift and creds her iendship wh Shane McAnally — one of Nashville’s most succsful songwrers, who is also gay — wh givg her the nfince to pursue a solo reer. “Who knows who’s gog to be listeng to me the flyover stat that’s gog to draw strength om ‘Oh, she’s gay too?
Man, if she’s gay and dog that, maybe I uld do that. “Gee Stra or Gee Gay, there’s no difference, ” sgs Homan, who now liv Nashville.
“Though a lot of people that work the dtry support me om a distance, there’s a difference between that and actually takg some steps to ph that further and sign some [gay artists], ” Homan says. The band’s first album, also lled “Lavenr Country, ” was one of the first untry albums wh outwardly gay them, acrdg to Billboard.
MASKED SGER ORVILLE PECK ON BEG OPENLY GAY COUNTRY MIC: ‘WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN THERE’
The album, origally released 1973, clus songs wh lyrics about queer sire and homophobia. 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.