As Lavender Country, Haggerty made what is widely regarded as the first openly gay country album. He died Monday after suffering a stroke a few weeks ago. Listen to new tracks by Tinariwen, Shamir, Ed ...

1973 saw the release of Lavender Country, the first gay country album. The album was produced by Seattle-based Patrick Haggerty, a gay man who describes himself as a die-hard fan of country music, and ...

In 1973, Patrick Haggerty sat down to write a song about how pissed off he was with heterosexual men. “I wanted to write a song about straight white male supremacy and how f***ed up it is,” recalls ...

Lavender Country, the pseudonym of Washington state singer/songwriter Patrick Haggerty, released what’s widely recognized — by institutions like the Country Music Hall of Fame and CMT — as the first ...

When Patrick Haggerty was gearing up to record his very first country music album, he had a choice to make. He could be the industry-friendly country star and remain in the closet, or he could use ...

The debut, self-titled album from Patrick Haggerty and his country group, Lavender Country, waited in obscurity for 40 years before finding its moment. A 2014 reissue brought Haggerty and his ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 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 ...

While LGBTQ+ artists are making advances left and right, there are still some areas where not everyone is accepted, and those who identify as being part of the community face obstacles when they’re ...