The Gay Courier: WOOF! Meet Openly Gay Country Singer Steve Grand

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

WOOF! Meet Openly Gay Country Singer Steve Grand

by Sly

Now who says country music can't be sexy. Damn sexy. At least the appeal of how sexy country music can be now that fast up and comer Steve Grand is now that he is being proclaimed the first openly gay male country singer. Though the music genre has not been too specifically associated with much anti-gay sentiment it is however apparent in the southern influenced good ol boy aesthetic mindset that being gay is not something country music does so often it at all.

Hopefully that is about to change very soon as Grand is getting a lot of attention, and not just for his looks (which if we're being honest ar more than enough). The smooth, sultry tunes combined with a modern, authentic storytelling is grabbing a lot of attention. His latest All American Boy is becoming an overnight heat with music lovers (and hard, highly toned, muscles bulging body enthusiasts) wanting more.

And if you are not into the music or the incredible body (I don't see why you wouldn't want to see more) then maybe you should listen to more of his backstory. Grand recently shared more about his past and the obstacles he faced after he went "ex-gay" reparative therapy that claims it can cure homosexuality (it doesn't) after coming out to his family. Here's more:

But Grand tells ABC's Good Morning America even more painful was trying to accept himself and be accepted by his parents.

'I felt like there was no way I would ever make them proud,' he said, barely holding back tears. 'I felt like I was a constant disappointment.'

That is why he agreed, as a teen, to go into therapy to see if he could be cured of his gayness.

'I was so consumed by the voices I grew up hearing, like the voices of my parents telling me I need to change — and I was in straight therapy for five years,' he tells The Backlot.com in an interview posted today.

He explains: 'Essentially I was just seeing a therapist, a clinical psychologist. I don’t want to bash my therapist even though I’ve come to really believe that homosexuality is not a bad thing, or sinful, and not something that God wants you to rid yourself of, because I still have a lot of respect for him. He was a good man.'[.....]

'Some of [this therapy] was actually helpful — I was able to talk to someone, he was so compassionate, and he really believed in me. We just ended up having a completely different perspective.'

Grand has a compelling story that some artists don't reveal about themselves in the decades long span that we hear their music. It's real and authentic and something we can all learn and gain perspective from. And we can see how incredibly attractive this man is. And best of all he's just starting.

So that means we have more of this