The road to untry mic’s first openly gay star – Geia Voice – Gay & LGBT Atlanta News

Contents:

• WHY TYLER CHILRS PUT A GAY LOVE STORY HIS NEW VIO
• TYLER CHILRS' NEW VIO 'IN YOUR LOVE' HAILED FOR SHOWG GAY LOVE RAL AMERI
• TYLER CHILRS RELEAS BTERSWEET MIC VIO FEATURG GAY LOVE STORY, STARRG COLTON HAYN
• 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' TEASER NFIRMS LUS GRABEEL'S RYAN EVANS IS GAY WH SAME-SEX KISS
• GAY NYC DANCER FATALLY STABBED WHILE VOGUG AT GAS STATN; HATE CRIME VTIGATN LNCHED
• BEYONCé PAYS TRIBUTE TO GAY DANCER WHO WAS FATALLY STABBED WHILE VOGUG TO HER SONG
• BEYONCé HONORS O’SHAE SIBLEY, GAY MAN KILLED VOGUG TO HER SONG
• THE ROAD TO UNTRY MIC’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STAR

WHY TYLER CHILRS PUT A GAY LOVE STORY HIS NEW VIO

Why Tyler Chilrs Put a Gay Love Story His New Vio. “He said he would like to have be a gay love story, maly bee his first who’s like a brother to him is gay, and he wanted him to see himself a untry mic vio, ” Hoe tells Rollg Stone. “In Your Love” stars Colton Hayn as Jasper and Jam Scully as Matthew, the gay uple whose burgeong relatnship — om stolen glanc the m to some steamy bedroom scen the farmhoe — am the vio.

Both Hayn and Scully are gay ( a behd-the-scen vio for the productn, Hoe lls them “two leads who are important the queer muny”), and they threw themselv to director Bryan Schlam’s stctns to simply act like two people love. Tyler Chilrs' new mic vio for #InYourLove tells a betiful story of gay Appalachian love. Onle, many pared Chilrs' vio to the one om reason Chilrs wanted to do this mic vio, he told Ann Powers of NPR, "was my growg up, who's like my big brother, is gay.

"In a news release for Chilrs' album and the vio, Hoe said, "As a gay teenager who loved untry mic, I uld have never imaged seeg myself a vio.

TYLER CHILRS' NEW VIO 'IN YOUR LOVE' HAILED FOR SHOWG GAY LOVE RAL AMERI

"High School Mil" character Ryan Evans is officially gay – and still Grabeel repris his role as Ryan, one half of the Evans tws alongsi Ashley Tisdale's Sharpay the origal Disney movie anchise, the fourth and fal season of TV spoff "High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri. "The director, who is gay, said he preferred to make Ryan queer-d out of the worry that Disney would not approve of him beg out. "There's so many amazgly talented gay actors that uld do as well, so if 'High School Mil' was ma today, I don't know if I would play Ryan, " Grabeel told TMZ 2020.

TYLER CHILRS RELEAS BTERSWEET MIC VIO FEATURG GAY LOVE STORY, STARRG COLTON HAYN

A 28-year-old Black gay man was fatally stabbed after dancg to a Beyoncé song at a New York gas statn, leadg an vtigatn to terme whether his ath was a hate crime. "Attacks on queer people:Colorado Sprgs shootg jos growg list of LGBTQ hate crim Ameri“They murred him bee he’s gay, bee he stood up for his iends, ” Pena said.

'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' TEASER NFIRMS LUS GRABEEL'S RYAN EVANS IS GAY WH SAME-SEX KISS

'Gay joy is not a crime'New York Cy Mayor Eric Adams lled Sibley’s ath a hate crime when addrsg at a public safety prs nference Monday.

"Uncle Johnny:Beyonce gets emotnal at GLAAD Awards, honors gay uncle who died of HIVLGBTQ lawmakers have nmned the killg, cludg state Sen.

"Dpe homophob’ bt efforts, gay joy is not crime. Beyoncé has paid tribute to O’Shae Sibley, a gay man and dancer stabbed ad at a New York gas statn bee he was vogug to one of her songs.

GAY NYC DANCER FATALLY STABBED WHILE VOGUG AT GAS STATN; HATE CRIME VTIGATN LNCHED

Acrdg to eyewns, cludg gas statn employee Summy Ullah and close iend Otis Pena, Sibley and his iends were vogug to Beyoncé’s Renaissance when they were approached by a gang of men who aggrsively told them to stop dancg and lled them homophobic... Sibley was stabbed to ath at a gas statn near Coney Island over the, a 28-year-old gay man who was a profsnal dancer, and some iends were reportedly dancg and vogug to Beyoncé’s mic when a group of men approached them.

The group of men allegedly lled Sibley and his iends antigay a scuffle, one of the men om the other group stabbed Sibley. The legendary performer even dited the album to her late Uncle Johnny, an out gay man.

BEYONCé PAYS TRIBUTE TO GAY DANCER WHO WAS FATALLY STABBED WHILE VOGUG TO HER SONG

“They murred him bee he’s gay, bee he stood up for his iends, ” Otis Pena, one of Sibley’s iends who was wh him when he was killed, said a vio posted to add, “His name was O’Shae and you all killed him. Rchie Torr, a Democrat om New York, said a statement that Sibley’s ath was “a shockg act of homophobic hate. As an openly gay Black man myself, I feel eply my heart that ours should be a cy and a untry where we are ee to be who we are whout fear of timidatn, harassment, vlence, and murr, ” Torr said.

While the event was not gay-specific, AIDS still rried tremendo stigma as a “gay disease.

Dolly Parton (publicy photo) Sce those early stands for gay rights, other untry stars have spoken out on behalf of LGBT issu; they clu Wynona Judd, Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood, and Marta McBri, among others. Asked whether the world is ready for “a gay mastream untry star, ” she replied, “Hontly, that’s a tough one, ” then sighed. Country heartthrob Kenny Chney gave a siar answer an terview wh Playboy magaze the same month — after vehemently nyg mors that he is gay, fueled by his quickie divorce om actrs Renee Zellwegger.

BEYONCé HONORS O’SHAE SIBLEY, GAY MAN KILLED VOGUG TO HER SONG

Asked if there will be a gay untry sger our lifetime, “I don’t know. ” Still, untry’s hostily to gays may be overstated. When Country Mic Televisn (CMT) posted a March 2009 blog about gay fans embracg the Rasl Flatts song “Love Who You Love, ” drew the expected negative ments — but plenty of posive reactns, too.

” Willie Nelson (publicy photo) Countered “Mil Jtice, “Long overdue and much appreciated by those of who don’t feel that lovg untry mic means beg biased or prejudiced towards homosexuals or anyone else. ” Country stars on the rerd on gay rights “I n’t see love beg a bad thg. I have a lot of gay fans, and I’m sure there’s a real ol mixture out there.

THE ROAD TO UNTRY MIC’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STAR

” Trisha Yearwood on performg at a 1999 ncer benef held at The Connectn, a gay bar Nashville. She is believed to be the first major untry artist to play a gay venue Nashville.

” Willie Nelson on his cisn to rerd the 1981 song “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other” for the gay-themed major film “Brokeback Mounta. 14, 2006) “Through civil unns, gay upl are wele to all the legal benefs that married upl get.

And please don’t ll me homophobic, or whatever y’all ll , bee I’m not aaid (or photo), least of all of lbians or gays. Lots of gays are untry mic fans. ” Marta McBri on her cisn to terview wh the gay prs (Out, March 2009) “I have gay iends who have partners, and I see where they would want to get married.