She paved the way for more LGBTQ+ stars — including Ty Herndon, TJ Osborne and Maren Morris — to come out "I think we're all reckoning with how much progress was made in such a short amount of time, ...

In 2010, country singer Chely Wright publicly came out as a lesbian, making her country music’s first high-profile openly gay musician since k.d. lang. Before then, Wright was a regular guest of the ...

That’s the question posed by the New York Times, which reminds us that the country world tends to be an unforgiving place where artists are generally not allowed to be that different–or at least not ...

“I had a responsibility to raise my hand and say, ‘I am gay, and I’m proud of who I am,’" Wright says of coming out as the first openly gay country star in 2010 Sherry Rayn Barnett /Michael Ochs ...