Chely Wright, Bumper of My S.U.V. song...
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Chely Wright Felt She Was in ‘Cultural Jeopardy’ if She Said She Was Gay
The singer tells Fox411.com that she felt she wasn’t “allowed to be gay in Nashville.”
Country singer Chely Wright said she never thought she would be the first gay country music singer to come out of the closet.
“I just was certain I wouldn’t be the one,” she said in a taped interview with Fox411.com (WATCH VIDEO). “Somebody would be the first, and it would be neat if I were the fifth or the fourth or the third. And believe me I would loved to been able to just Twitter this information and say yup – I too am gay.”
So what kept her from coming out sooner? Wright, 39, said it was her belief that “you’re not allowed to be gay in Nashville.”
“I did know that I was in social jeopardy and cultural jeopardy, and that this was something I had to hide if I wanted to achieve my career dreams of being on the Grand Ole Opry stage,” she told Fox411.com. “As far as I knew, there had never been a man or a woman ... that made country music who had acknowledged his or her homosexuality.”
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/05/05/chely-wright-thought-id-openly-gay-country-singer/
Wow,
I always liked her music. Never in a million years would have suspected. Shes still great