Brandi Carlile promis she will be 'shoutg gay om the rooftops' rponse to anti-LGBTQ legislatn.
Contents:
- BRANDI CARLILE TALKS NEW MEMOIR, LGBTQ PARENTG AND HER 'GAY PEN-PAL FATHER FIGURE' ELTON JOHN
- JT YOUR AVERAGE 40-YEAR-OLD, GAY, MARRIED, MEMOIR-PUBLISHG, JONI-BEIENDG ROCK STAR
- IS BRANDI CARLILE GAY? YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT WE FOUND OUT!
- BRANDI CARLILE WILL BE ‘SHOUTG GAY FROM THE ROOFTOPS’ RPONSE TO ANTI-LGBTQ LEGISLATN
BRANDI CARLILE TALKS NEW MEMOIR, LGBTQ PARENTG AND HER 'GAY PEN-PAL FATHER FIGURE' ELTON JOHN
He first reached out 2007 to say he's a fan, and soon beme her "gay pen-pal father figure, " Carlile wr her new memoir "Broken Hors. She scrib g out as gay at age 15 – prompted by Ellen DeGener' historic g-out episo of "Ellen" 1997 – and the tolerance she faced as a rult.
JT YOUR AVERAGE 40-YEAR-OLD, GAY, MARRIED, MEMOIR-PUBLISHG, JONI-BEIENDG ROCK STAR
It might not feel radil to talk about LGBTQ+ parentg right now, but over the arc of history, gay domticy is a radilly new ncept.
IS BRANDI CARLILE GAY? YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT WE FOUND OUT!
Brandi Carlile may be a "sad gay, " as she shared durg a speech at a Human Rights Campaign gala -- but she also remas hopeful a time when LGBTQ+ rights are unr lbian sger, while acceptg HRC's Visibily Award Saturday at the LGBTQ+ group's Los Angel dner, shared a story of marriage to her wife, Cathere Shepherd, to illtrate the power of joy the face of stutnal Carlile first performed at an HRC event the early 2000s, she sang the melancholic "Hallelujah" after her state, Washgton, had failed to pass a marriage equaly iative. Carlile noted how this story ronat a time when an unprecented amount of anti-LGBTQ+ legislatn has appeared state legislatur -- notably, Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill, which would prohib tn of sexual orientatn and genr inty schools to young children, as well as polil asslts on trans youth Texas.
Origally nceived as a rad drama, the pellg two hanr is set the visg room of a high secury prison where Asian Amerin Claire (Elizabeth Sun) meets wh allegedly repentant Trevor (Doug Harris), the whe man who murred her gay brother when he heard him speakg Che le at an ATM. Yet Carlile is unmistakably a 21st-century figure: a gay married mother of two dghters who bypassed the untry-mic tablishment to reach her own fervent the begng — Carlile released her but album, “Brandi Carlile, ” 2005 — her gifts have been obv.
BRANDI CARLILE WILL BE ‘SHOUTG GAY FROM THE ROOFTOPS’ RPONSE TO ANTI-LGBTQ LEGISLATN
Lil Nas X, a gay Black artist, was booted om the untry charts when his song “Old Town Road” went viral; he was only allowed back when he rerd a remix of the song wh untry artist Billy Ray Cys.
Allison Rsell, one of the great young artists Carlile has champned, opened Night 1 wh a short set that ma mdfulns feel like a party, climaxg wh “Requiem, ” a song that Carlile appears on on Rsell’s forthg sophomore album, “The Returner. Supportg st members clud Luci, the phenomenal, all-purpose MVP duo whose latt album was also produced by Carlile (they had a spotlight number sgg Mchell’s “Cact Tree, ” by requt of Joni superfan Cameron Crowe); and Celisse, who has clearly imprsed Mchell as both a sger and guarist, somethg that’s not easy to do (she took the lead on two sizzlg Joni Jam numbers, “Help Me” and “Sex Kills”) there were meos like the one by Brandy Clark Friday night, which had Carlile crackg, “Two gay Brandys walk to the Ge…” Clark had flown out for jt one night to sg jt one song before headg back to the Tonys, where she was up for bt sre for “Shucked, ” and that number was worth the quick cross-untry mutg, for the dience, at least.