Gay Country Songs: Bt LGBTQ Country/Amerina Anthems – Billboard

Contents:

• ‘I’M HERE, I’M QUEER AND I’M COUNTRY’: THE TOP 5 GAY COUNTRY SONGS
• HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD
• MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
• COUNTRY MIC IS GAY-FRIENDLY—UNLS YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO BE A COUNTRY SGER
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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

Brish pop rock band The 1975 has announced was ncelg s shows Jakarta and Taipei after the Malaysian ernment cut short a mic ftival, a day before, as the band’s lead sger slammed the untry’s anti-gay laws and kissed a male TARIGAN Associated PrsFILE - Matty Healy of the 1975 performs at the Readg Mic Ftival, England, Sunday, Aug. Malaysia’s ernment has cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry’s anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance. ” (Photo by Stt Garft/Invisn/AP, file)The Associated PrsJAKARTA, Indonia -- Brish pop rock band The 1975 announced on Sunday was ncelg s shows Jakarta and Taipei after the Malaysian ernment cut short a mic ftival the wake of the band's lead sger slammg the untry’s anti-gay laws and kissg a male bandmate durg their 1975 was schled to have a performance at We The Ft, Indonia’s annual summer mic ftival, Jakarta on Sunday night, part of their 2023 Asia tour.

Matt Healey, the lead vol of The 1975, ed profany his speech cricizg the ernment’s stance agast homosexualy, before kissg bass player Ross MacDonald.

Malaysia’s Communitns and Digal Mister Fahmi Fadzil slammed Matty Healy’s nduct late Friday and said a Facebook post that homosexualy is a crime the untry punishable by up to 20 years prison and wasn’t the first time that Healy ed the stage to fend lbian and gay rights. In 2019, he kissed a male fan durg a ncert the Uned Arab Emirat, which also outlaws homosexual acts, acrdg to media reports. You are young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progrsive.

HERE ARE GAY COUNTRY SGERS WHO STOOD OUT LOUD AND PROUD

The sger add that the 1975 nsired droppg out of the show due to Malaysia’s anti-gay laws. The 1975 bassist Ross MacDonald then walked over to Healy and the two engaged a prolonged kiss on the mouth, prott to Malaysia’s anti-gay legislatn. Beg gay the UAE n land rints up to 15 years prison.

Country artist Brian Falduto, bt known as the sassy scene-stealg gay kid om School of Rock, jt released the first sgle om his upg Gay Country EP. “Same Old Country Love Song” is a te untry love song for gay guys, wh plenty of hot guys tight blue jeans. Don’t get me wrong – I am lovg all the new and excg sounds that are out there the days, particularly much of what’s g om emergg queer artists who are phg the envelope, ” Falduto said of his work on the upg Gay Country EP.

”You n now stream or download “Same Old Country Love Song” by Brian Falduto off of his upg EP, Gay Country. While the stereotype is that untry mic is about as far om gay-iendly as you n get, that’s not always the se. That may be due to the lyrics, however, which tell the story of a gay man cshg on his straight iend.

MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

Though Sublette’s not gay himself, he lived on Christopher Street New York Cy, next door to a gay untry bar.

COUNTRY MIC IS GAY-FRIENDLY—UNLS YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO BE A COUNTRY SGER

And hey, was good enough for Pansy Divisn to ver for a Stop Homophobia pilatn 7″! Freddy Freeman’s “I’m Here, I’m Queer and I’m Country” feels like a manifto for the gay untry mic fan. While Mgrav herself is straight, the song was -wrten wh Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, both openly gay Nashville songwrers.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

” While the song was censored when she performed for the CMA Awards broadst, wasn’t the reference to homosexualy that was cut, but the reference to smokg a jot.

No article on gay untry mic would be plete whout a mentn of Pat Haggerty, the lear of the first gay untry band Lavenr Country. Rerd for a private-prs LP 1973, “Cry’ The Cocksuckg Tears” is a fearls prott song agast homophobia and sexism.

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.

So, today, let’s take a look at some of the most celebrated gay untry sgers – om Grammy Award-wng stars Brandi Carlile and Lil Nas X to T. Osborne, who is the first gay artist signed to a major untry label.

Brandi Carlile spent most of her childhood beg told that “to be gay was a one-way ticket to hell. ” She even had never met another gay person – until she watched Ellen DeGener’ historic 1997 “I’m gay” episo, which she rerd on a VHS tape so she uld watch repeatedly.