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Contents:

• COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY
• 9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
• LIL NAS X MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK ARTIST TO W AT CMA AWARDS
• 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
• HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD
• ‘I’M HERE, I’M QUEER AND I’M COUNTRY’: THE TOP 5 GAY COUNTRY SONGS
• GAY MALE COUNTRY MIC SGERS YOU NEED TO KNOW
• ORVILLE PECK, A MASKED GAY COUNTRY STAR, RIS INTO BROOKLYN

COUNTRY MIC HAS NEVER BEEN MORE GAY

After the wife of untry sger Jason Alan ma an ignorant post thankg her parents for not "forcg her" to be trans when she was a tomboy, other sgers, like Maren Morris, clapped back, sayg there's no room for homophobia and transphobia untry mic and that those clgg onto need to change or get out of the way. "But there's a very sid culture of people feelg very fortable beg transphobic and homophobic and racist, and that they n wrap a joke and no one will ever ll them out for . Me out as gay 2021 and ntu to release hs wh his band.

One of untry mic's greatt songwrers and producers is gay.

Their 1973 self-tled album is nsired the first known gay-themed untry mic album. When he me out as gay, and also revealed that when he had been sexually abed by an uncle, he was disowned om his fay.

9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY

Herndon is nsired by most to be the first mastream male untry artist to e out as gay when he did so 2014. The album explored the tersectn of beg gay and relig and her song "Lovg You" is a self-acceptance anthem about lovg who you love no matter Getty Imag.

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.

LIL NAS X MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK ARTIST TO W AT CMA AWARDS

“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. 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.

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(Matt Wkelmeyer / Getty Imag) Lil Nas X ma history Wednday night at the 53rd CMA Awards when he beme the first openly gay black mician to take home a w om the Country Mic h “Old Town Road, ” a llaboratn wh veteran untry sger Billy Ray Cys, was named the mil event of the year. 14, 2019An earlier versn of this article rrectly stated that Lil Nas X was the first openly gay artist to w a CMA Award. He is the first openly gay black artist to do so.

Country sgers Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, both of whom are whe and openly gay, shared the 2014 song of the year CMA Award wh Kacey Mgrav for “Follow Your Arrow. Gay Male Country Sgers.

He me out as gay last Febary makg him, the words of wikipedia, “the first openly gay artist signed to a major untry mic label”. Lookg for a list of gay male untry sgers? Their stars may not be as bright as untry stars such as Garth Brooks, Keh Urban, and our favore untry sger Blake Shelton but the gay untry sgers are jt as talented.

HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD

Anyhoo, let’s start our list wh:Steve Grand: Male mol-turned-openly-gay-untry-sger om Lemont, Illois is the breakout star of 2013.

Canadian untry sger Drake Jensen married partner Michael Mor 2008 and publicly me out as gay four years later by releasg a mic vio for the sgle, On My Way to Fdg You, which featured his hband.

Drake dited the song to a gay Ottawa teen, Jamie Hubley, who mted suici bee of about his sexualy (via Towleroad): “As a child I always knew there was somethg different about me above and beyond the gay thg.

‘I’M HERE, I’M QUEER AND I’M COUNTRY’: THE TOP 5 GAY COUNTRY SONGS

I’m a homosexual mician tellg my story through songs and spreadg the msage of love. Next our list of gay male untry sgers is Brian Glenn who performed wh big untry stars such as Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Reba McEntire, Patty Lovels, and his favore of them all Dolly says of his experience sgg wh Dolly (via the Wdy Cy Tim): “It will be one of the greatt moments mic to date for me—backg up Dolly Parton. ”In 2002, Glenn joed Marty Stuart’s band, The Fabulo Superlativ, and me out to Marty who apparently didn’t md if Glenn is gay or straight.

GAY MALE COUNTRY MIC SGERS YOU NEED TO KNOW

Remember this was more than a ago when gays were still aaid to e Brian of tourg wh The Fabulo Superlativ (via Wdy Cy Tim): “I love tourg wh Marty. [The band] beme aware [that I was gay] about three or four months to [my time wh the band], the fall of 2002, and hasn’t been a signifint enough of a problem for anyone to be replaced. When I cid that I wanted Marty to know that [I was gay], I certaly was apprehensive and prepared for the worst.

The Stranger tells more about Lavenr untry: “Lavenr Country—wh the origal lp of lead sger and guarist Patrick Haggerty, keyboardist Michael Carr, volist and fiddle-player Eve Morris, and lead guarist Robert Hammerstrom — formed Seattle 1972, and their self-tled 1973 album is regnized as the first gay-themed untry album ever.

The album’s 10 songs are sweet, funny, liltgly lo-fi, and—wh lyrics like ‘There’s k and honey flow’ when you’re blow’ Gabriel’s horn’ and a song straight-up lled ‘Cry’ The C*cks*ckg Tears’—super gay by any era’s standards. Jimbe Hson is not actually gay but is openly bisexual who’s currently married to wife Brenda. Let’s end this post on gay male untry sgers wh the hot and totally shaggable Josey Greenwell.

ORVILLE PECK, A MASKED GAY COUNTRY STAR, RIS INTO BROOKLYN

If you know more gay male untry sgers who should be add to this list, do tell the ments. Gay Male Country Sgers: Eight Proud and Out Country Stars posted 23 October 2014. 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.