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Ex-Country Star Chely Wright on What’s Changed for Gay People in the 15 Years Since She Came Out, and Why She’s Made the Surprising Leap From Artist to Corporate VP
Ex-country star Chely Wright is now a VP for a corporation, ISS. She talks about still upholding the ideals she's espoused since coming out as gay.
When Chely Wright came out of the closet in 2010, revealing to Nashville and to millions of country fans that she was gay, that emergence put her in a position to become a spokesperson and activist on behalf of the LGBTQ community, as someone middle America had known, trusted and sung along with. Cornell and Columbia are losing funding, and a lot of organizations, like the Department of Education here in New York state, are having to take a stance and say, “Look, we’re not gonna kowtow; we’re not going to disband and eradicate all of our teachings around culture and inclusion,” as they well shouldn’t. Many of them are my dear friends qwho really struggled during COVID, not because of the ambiguity of what was happening and because of the global pandemic in which the world changed, but the visceral physical need to perform… to have that conversation with an audience five nights a week.
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