Is Brandi Carlile Gay? You Won't Believe What We Found Out! - Crossover 99

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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. 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. 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.

JT YOUR AVERAGE 40-YEAR-OLD, GAY, MARRIED, MEMOIR-PUBLISHG, JONI-BEIENDG ROCK STAR

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. 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. ) Soon she was pallg around wh the lik of Elton John and Joni Mchell, whose album “Blue” she vered s entirety at Walt Disney Concert Hall; she formed a untry supergroup, the Highwomen, and wrote a btsellg memoir, “Broken Hors, ” tracg her sometim-paful journey as a churchgog gay kid out of the wilds of ral Washgton she’s back wh a new album, “In The Silent Days, ” that opens wh yet another stunner: a sweepg piano ballad lled “Right on Time, ” which she reach for a high note, seiz , then climbs up a few more steps jt to ensure she’s tgled every spe the room. Several admirers have speculated if Brandi Carlile is gay, and this topic has created discsn and bate among her supporters and the wir public.