Brandy Clark, out and proud country star, celebrates her most personal record yet
The Grammy-nominated artist on coming out, creating music, and her latest album Your Life Is A Record
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“I’m one-hundred percent a lesbian,” says Brandy Clark. “There’s no gray area. There’s no man that’s going to come out and say, ‘Well Brandy Clark had a sexual relationship with me in my twenties.’ Nope. Wasn’t going on.”
Clark is unabashedly open about her sexuality in a musical genre not previously known for its warm and welcoming stance toward the LGBTQ community. Yet society is in the midst of an ongoing sea change, and country music both its artists and fans are getting swept up in the wave of acceptance. Take, for instance, the recent acclaim for LGBTQ artist Waylon Payne’s first new album in fifteen years,