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Patrick Haggerty, whose album Lavender Country is believed to be the first explicitly gay record by an openly gay artist, died on Monday after suffering a stroke at the age of 78. Brendan Greaves, whose record label gave Haggerty's career a second wind in 2014, spoke to As It Happens host Nil Köksal.
In 1973, amid the growing gay rights movement, a band called Lavender Country recorded a country music album that unabashedly explored LGBTQ themes, becoming a landmark that would nonetheless disappear for decades.
In 1973, amid the growing gay rights movement, a band called Lavender Country recorded a country music album that unabashedly explored LGBTQ themes, becoming a landmark that would nonetheless disappear for decades.