Amy Ray, the Indigo Girls, and the Soundtrack of Our Gay Liv

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INDIGO GIRLS: THE GAY TERVIEW

Formed by longtime iends Amy Ray and Ey Saliers, the Indigo Girls croon about life-changg epiphani, gay rights, and polics, both together and separately. Surely there are more to e, seeg as Ray and Saliers have ma a ser imprsn on the gay muny lo the past 35 years.

Acrdg to the Amerin Psychologil Associatn, beg gay the 1980s was no easy feat. Jt two s before, homosexuals were at risk of beg jailed, ostracized by iends and fay, losg their jobs, and beg fed as mentally ill. Although the LGBT movement was unrway, the AIDS epimic st an unhealthy shadow over the gay liftyle as march on Washgton plead for passn.

" And although Amy Ray's fay was "more polilly nservative, " she likely found solace the fact that two of her siblgs were also gay. "Jt bee we are gay, " Tongson clarifi regardg the homosexual muny, "don't always make gay for each other.

AMY RAY OF INDIGO GIRLS: WE WERE AAID TO SAY WE WERE GAY

The two married New York State sce at the time, gay marriage was illegal Geia. (Shaw Law nfirms that gay marriage fally beme legal there 2015.

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Saliers' recent song, "Country Rad, " ntas lyrics that show how beg homosexual n be a lonely road to travel when one listens to songs meant for heterosexuals: "I'm jt a gay kid a small town, who lov untry rad.

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