T.J. Osborne of The Brothers Osborne came out and became the first out gay artists signed at a major country label. (Similar to Clark, Brandi Carlile, Chely Wright, Orville Peck, and Lil Nas X are not on specifically country music labels.)"The great thing for me was there was no career suicide to commit because I was already out of the closet.
Whatever happened for me, once I became an artist, it was icing on the cake."Writing for country music staples like Miranda Lambert and Kacey Musgraves, Brandy Clark's career has indeed flourished as a songwriter, but now with the release of her third critically-acclaimed album, she's created a new example for queer musicians to point to for what is also possible in Nashville.