“But in a rural town playing a county fair?” Osbourne also admits to being “curious” as to how country audiences will react to the revelation: “I don’t think I’m going to get run off the stage in Chicago,” he said. “But for me to show up at an awards show with a man would be jaw-dropping to people.
“People will ask, ‘Why does this even need to be talked about?’ and personally, I agree with that,” Osbourne explained. (The magazine draws a stylistic distinction between the mainstream sound of the Brothers Osbourne and other country-adjacent queer artists such as Lil Nas X, Brandi Carlile and Orville Peck.) Osbourne told the magazine that he’s been out to friends and family - he came out to bandmate and brother John in his 20s - in Nashville for years, but his coming out reportedly makes him the only openly gay country artist signed to a major record label. “I find myself being guarded for not wanting to talk about something that I personally don’t have a problem with. “I’m very comfortable being gay,” Osbourne, 36, told Time. TJ Osbourne, one-half of the platinum-selling country hitmakers The Brothers Osbourne, has revealed he’s gay. CMT Awards ‘scrambling’ after host Kelsea Ballerini tests positive for COVID
