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Gay in Country Music: Nashville Comes Out
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Well, perhaps we don’t know
that story, but we understand the context. So much of modern life is conducted on and mediated through the internet, constant electronic communication, and social media. In a way that would have been unthinkable barely a decade ago, we now have ready access to highly addictive and potentially immense platforms, providing a serious incentive to perform a personality online. This personality can be fun or dour, earnest or cynical, politically radical or smugly apolitical. Yet no matter what it is, this personality doesn’t quite reflect who we are offline. For some of us, our internet selves are more confident, more outgoing, blasting the powerful on Twitter or sharing carefully cultivated collections of smiling pictures on Instagram, even as we brood at home in quarantine. For others, our internet selves are wholly fake, artifices meant to generate clicks, and thus attention, and thus money.
Elaine Chung
So, it was kind of a big week for country music. For the first time, a mainstream male country star, a guy whose career is very much still happening, came out as a gay man. T.J. Osborne of Brothers Osborne gave an interview to Sam Lansky of Time Magazine, saying I want to get to the height of my career being completely who I am.” Right away I put on their latest album, last year’s
Skeletons, just to see if there were any clues or subtextual elements I could tease out, but also to learn every word so I’ll be fluent when live music comes back. I mean, these shows might be a real party.
Sam Lansky to tell his story and the article was published earlier today. As mentioned in the article, with this news, T.J. becomes the only openly gay artist signed to a major country label.
In the article, T.J. shares how he feels about coming out:
“Don’t get me wrong,” T.J. says. “When I say I want to put it behind me, I want to put the coming out behind me. Because ultimately it’s a very small detail about me. There are times when I think I’ve marginalized this part of me so that I feel better about it,” he says. “And I realize that it is a big part of who I am: The way I think, the way I act, the way I perform. God, think of all the times that we talk about love, and write about love. It’s the biggest thing we ever get to feel. And I’ve kept the veil on.” He sighs. “You know that thing stand for something or you’ll fall for anything?” he says. “That sounds like something someone in country music would say. But if you stand for something and it�
T.J. Osborne Comes Out as Gay
T.J. Osborne Comes Out as Gay
Brothers Osborne singer-guitarist is one of the first mainstream country artists to come out in the prime of their career
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Brothers Osborne singer-guitarist T.J. Osborne has publicly come out as gay, revealing the news in an interview with
Time. With this revelation, Osborne becomes the first openly gay man signed to a major country label and one of the first mainstream country artists to come out in the prime of their career.
“I’m very comfortable being gay,” Osborne told writer Sam Lansky. “I find myself being guarded for not wanting to talk about something that I personally don’t have a problem with. That feels so strange.”
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