Nashville’s Livestreamed ‘Love Rising’ Concert Looks to Combat Tennessee’s LGBTQ-Targeting Laws With Music and Joy
. Late additions to the show since it was first announced include a greater contingent of non-binary and, yes, drag artists from Tennessee on top of the nationally known names.
Hunter Kelly is a longtime correspondent for ABC News Radio and other news outlets who now hosts the world’s first major gay-themed country radio show, “Proud Radio,” on Apple Music. He is not proud of the state he has called home since he was 18 — and, in fact, just recently decided to move away from Tennessee in the near future, due to what he sees as an increasingly hostile climate for his community.
Says Kelly, “We had a rally on Valentine’s Day here in Nashville” — one attended by Morris and her singer-songwriter husband Ryan Hurd, he notes — “and then went into the hearing room for the drag felony bill. And we were all there in solidarity, but it was just really clear that there was no stopping these bills, no matter what, because ultimately this is the GOP’s strategy going into 2024, and the super-majority in the legislature here in Tennessee and our governor, are in lockstep with this.
“I don’t believe for one second that any of those lawmakers actually thinks it’s about protecting children,” says Russell. “It’s the fascist playbook of target the most vulnerable community, rile up vigilante anger and violence and sentiment around that, and use that to propel yourself to continue grasping at power that doesn’t represent all of your constituents and of your state.
Beneficiaries of proceeds include the Tennessee Equality Project, Inclusion Tennessee, Out Memphis and the Tennessee Pride Chamber. Kelly takes the opposite view and making plans to leave, because he just can’t take it anymore, after years of justifying the politics of Tennessee for himself and others, and wondering where the rest of the would-be allies are. “I would say at this point the LGBTQ community is looking for the businesses that sponsor us at Nashville Pride to speak up. I think there is, from what I’m understanding, a surprise and a shock that all this is actually happening so quickly.
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