{"id":13042,"date":"2021-02-04T04:10:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T09:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/uncategorized\/2021\/02\/tj-osborne-of-brothers-osborne-comes-out-as-gay\/"},"modified":"2021-02-04T06:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T11:21:56","slug":"tj-osborne-of-brothers-osborne-comes-out-as-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/02\/tj-osborne-of-brothers-osborne-comes-out-as-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"TJ Osborne Of Brothers Osborne Comes Out As Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nDiXib8Xn5o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Brothers Osborne member TJ Osborne came out as gay in <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5935439\/tj-osborne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an interview with Time magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article states that he is the only openly gay man signed to a major label country record deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very comfortable being gay. I find myself being guarded for not wanting to talk about something that I personally don\u2019t have a problem with. That feels so strange.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>TJ admits that he has no idea how this revelation will be received by Country music fans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to get run off the stage in Chicago. But in a rural town playing a county fair? I\u2019m curious how this will go.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He had already come out friends and family several years ago.<\/p>\n<p>His brother John Osborne posted a video to social media, praising.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CK1f-g1phs2\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>TJ also shared a video message on social media yesterday which drew supportive responses from the likes of Miranda Lambert, Dan + Shay, members of Little Big Town, Kacey Musgraves and actors Mary Steenburgen and Leslie Jordan, to name just a few.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CK1hrQsDg5f\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brothers Osborne member TJ Osborne came out as gay in an interview with Time magazine.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":13043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[363,5149,4168,4169],"class_list":["post-13042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-brothers-osborne","tag-gay","tag-john-osborne","tag-tj-osborne"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 14:08:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/02\/tj-osborne-of-brothers-osborne-comes-out-as-gay\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13048,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042\/revisions\/13048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}