Haggerty's first album was 1973's 'Lavender Country' is widely considered to be the first country album recorded by an out gay musician.
Trailblazing country music artist Patrick Haggerty, the founder and lead singer of the band Lavender Country, has died at the age of 78.He described himself as a “screaming Marxist b—h singer," and his 1973 album"Lavender Country" is widely considered to be the first country music album recorded by an out gay musician.
He once said, “The very thing that sank me in the first place is the very thing that jettisoned me into this position,” he told CNN. The band Haggerty founded unabashedly explored LGBTQ themes, becoming a landmark group that would disappear for decades. Haggerty made it his mission to advocate against oppressive systems within the country music industry, Billboard reported.
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