Lavender Country's 1973 debut is considered the first openly gay country album. Fans and fellow artists came to embrace Patrick Haggerty, who died Monday, as a pioneer.
." But the arc of Haggerty's career, the chance to witness a warmly uncompromising and incisively charismatic figure revive the life-endangering truth-telling he did during the Stonewall era while occupying the spotlight in a lavender-hued snap shirt the final eight years of his life —The many interviewers who asked Haggerty what he thought about gaining new generations of musical followers in recent years often received a playfully pungent response.
After half a decade of performing in the Pacific Northwest, Haggerty felt marginalized in his own political movement, too radical for the gay rights coalitions forming with Democrats. He set the band aside and moved on with his life's work: co-parenting, marriage, campaigning for local and state office, working for quality of care and policy change for AIDS patients.
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