Chely Wright Makes It Official: I'm Gay
by Hilton Hater at .It's official: Chely Wright is gay.
The country music singer tells this week's issue of People: "Nothing in my life has been more magical than the moment I decided to come out."
That moment has arrived, but Wright says it took awhile to get there. Growing up in the south (she was born in Kansas City, Missouri), the Academy of Country Music's Top New Female Vocalist in 1994 said she doesn't have "a memory in my life that doesn't include the dream of making music."
But she resided in a world that shunned homosexuality and, therefore, "hid everything for my music."
Why come out now? The news coincides with the release of Wright's memoir this week Like Me, as well as her first album in five years, Lifted off the Ground.
Part of the official synopsis for the book reads that Wright made "a pact with God: to keep her "sinning" to a minimum if he'd get her to the stage of the Grand Ole Opry."
We're proud of her for finally revealing her true self to the world. What do you think of this announcement?
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Comments (18 Total)
Good for you, doesn't make you a bad person, I have lots of gay friend, men and woman, nothing wrong with it.
I'm having a problem finding people who claim they came out of the "closet" and feel so much better. Personally, if I were gay I could never come out of the closet...that's just me. I would be very embarrassed to admit this to my family, friends, and fans/
And this affects her talent how? Thought so, really who cares? And more thought so......who the heck is she? Drumming up a little real estate in the tabloids are we? There just might be better ways of doing it, if she has any class at all, and I really hope so, she will make it clear that her personal life is just that.......personal. And life goes on and on.
Good for her. It shouldn't matter if she's straight or gay. It's funny that people still to this day and age think that being gay is a choice. If there is a God - it is God that has made them that way. That's what I think.
FYI, Kansas City is in the midwest, not the south.