Chely Wright's song "Damn Liar" was one of the most talked-about tunes off of her 2010 album Lifted Off the Ground, which was released in conjunction with her book, Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland ...

In her 2010 autobiography Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer, Chely Wright candidly admits that coming out of the closet might've limited her career trajectory within Nashville.

Chappell Roan added to country's relatively slim canon of gay-focused music with the release of her song "The Giver" earlier this month, describing the track as a "lesbian country song." But it's not ...

Chely Wright and Austin Jenckes take different approaches to chronicling the journey to meet their partners in a pair of excellent new tracks, the Sisterhood aim for summer radio dominance with “Get ...

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was ...

Nashville star Chely Wright says that country music fans will forgive a lot — forlorn tales of failure and redemption are as essential to the music as steel pedal guitar — but there is one thing that ...

As the holidays approach, Chely Wright is thinking about Christmases gone by. The memories have a new, all-original holiday EP called Santa Will Find You. "I grew up in a small town in Kansas and we ...

Wright, who came out in 2010, praises Roan as an "undeniable" talent Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty; Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Chely Wright praises Chappell Roan's new country song "The Giver," but admits she ...

Since her brilliant 2010 LP Lifted Off the Ground, Chely Wright’s musical output has been both startlingly confessional and increasingly eclectic. That LP, which coincided with Wright’s coming-out and ...

Fifteen years ago, Chely Wright became the first mainstream country singer to come out as gay — and she’s never stopped fighting to make other people feel seen. Now, with a brand-new corporate career, ...