Is willy nelson gay
Willie Nelson Shows Back for Texas LGBT People, Endorses Statewide Anti-Discrimination Group By Dan Atkerson on June 17, 2015
Country music legend Willie Nelson recently endorsed Texas Wins, an anti-discrimination group that focuses on fighting discrimination against LGBTQ people in Texas.
“Discrimination against the LGBT community is not what Texas is all about,” said the 82-year-old singer, adding that he’s “thrilled” to support Texas Wins.
“[Gay people] should be just as miserable as the rest of us,” Nelson joked. “It’s ridiculous to me that this is something we’re having a conversation about in this date and age.” Nelson said he thought the issue was settled long ago.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees from workplace discrimination based on race, sex, national origin, age, religion and disability. While there is no category for sexual orientation, the law may be evolving. The U.S. Matching Employment Opportunity Commission recently held that gay, homosexual woman, bisexual and transgendered individuals alleging sex stereotyping may have claim under prohibited gender discrimination.
Texas state regulation currently does not safeguard
The 82-year-old outlaw-country-music king and gay-rights advocate Willie Nelson isn't just alive and kicking, he's kicking through boards. For his 81st birthday, Willie earned a fifth-degree black belt in the Korean martial art called GongKwon Yusul, where feet smash boards prefer they're matchsticks. (Willie says it's more about mental strength, though.) His musical footprint is substantial, with more than 60 studio albums released and more than 40 million albums sold in the Joined States. This month, Willie released his latest album, Django and Jimmie, with his longtime gunslinging homey Merle Haggard.
To date, Willie has 11 Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993. Rolling Stone has him in the top 100 singers and the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. They also own "Crazy" (made famous by Patsy Cline, penned by one Willie Nelson) at number 85 among the 500 greatest songs of all time. To me, though, the most memorable Willie Nelson number is $37,000. That's how much someone paid for his snipped-off braids when they went to auction last year.
Willie spoke from his bus, driving toward Kalamazoo. When he got on the phone, I broke into t
A Cultural Revelation — Willie Nelson and His Same-sex attracted Cowboy Song
The fact that singer Willie Nelson has recorded his own “gay cowboy song” is not so revealing. After all, the Hollywood elites acquire gone agog over Brokeback Mountain. In one perception, Willie is just joining the bandwagon. He also has a song on the movie’s soundtrack.
What makes this story so uncovering is the fact that the song, “Cowboys Are Secretly, Frequently Fond of each Other,” was written twenty years ago. “The song’s been in the closet for 20 years. The timing’s right for it to come out,” said Nelson, according to BBC News. “I’m just opening the door,” he says.
Nelson’s openly-gay manager, David Anderson, said, “This ballad obviously has special sense to me in more ways than one,” said Mr Anderson. “I long people to know more than anything – queer , straight, whatever – just how cool Willie is and … his way of thinking, his tolerance, everything about him,” he added.
So this is the way to show how cool you are, how tolerant. This says a great deal about our cultural moment.
Just consider
Do we ever talk about Willie Nelson?
Willie did NOT sing the theme to Brokeback Mountain. He included on his Missing Highway album a tune called "Ain’t Goin' Down on Brokeback Mountain," which has these problematic lyrics:
Why, I've been up the Chisholm Trail
Been through Death Valley hot as hell
I rode across the dusty plains
There's cowboy runnin' through my veins
But, I ain't goin' down on Brokeback Mountain
No, I ain't goin' down on Brokeback Mountain
That shit ain't right (that shit ain't right)
That shit ain't right (that shit ain't right)
Why, I've watched the herd from dusk 'til dawn
But I did it with my britches on
You can have a chew, you can bum a smoke
But, don't travel reachin' for my rope
I ain't goin' down on Brokeback Mountain
No, I ain't goin' down on Brokeback Mountain
That shit ain't right (that shit ain't right)
That shit ain't right (that shit ain't right)
What you do is your business, Hoss
You can buy me a beer and then buck off!
But, I ain't goin' down on Brokeback Mountain
No, I ain't goin' down on Brokeback Mountain
That shit ain't right (that shit ain't right)
That shit ain't right (that shit ain't right) [etc.]
But on the same album,
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