Maren Morris is celebrating LGBTQ+ Delight Month with a clarification about her personal sexuality.
The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter revealed on Instagram Sunday that she is bisexual.
“happy to be the B in LGBTQ+,” she wrote alongside a carousel of photographs from the Phoenix, Arizona, cease on her RSVP Redux Tour. “happy pride.”
In two of the photographs, Morris will be seen holding a rainbow flag whereas onstage.
By Monday, the submit had obtained a plethora of supportive feedback from followers in addition to a few of Morris’ well-known friends.
“HAPPY PRIDE!!!!! thanks for being an inspiration and what a special pride this one is,” fellow singer-songwriter Allison Ponthier wrote.
Added Scott Hoying of the famed acapella pop group Pentatonix: “Love you so much Maren!!!!!”
Morris break up from husband Ryan Hurd, a fellow musician, in 2023 after about 5 years of marriage. The previous couple share a 4-year-old son, Hayes Andrew.
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Up to now few years, Morris has emerged as one in every of nation music’s most outspoken LGBTQ+ rights advocates, typically denouncing homophobic and transphobic laws, each in interviews and whereas performing onstage. In 2022, she traded barbs with Brittany Aldean, the spouse of nation singer Jason Aldean, on-line over the conservative couple’s feedback about transgender kids.
Final September, Morris stated she deliberate to exit the nation music style due to its failure to turn into extra accessible to feminine artists, LGBTQ+ musicians and performers of coloration.
“After the Trump years, people’s biases were on full display. It just revealed who people really were and that they were proud to be misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic,” she instructed the Los Angeles Occasions in September. “All these things were being celebrated, and it was weirdly dovetailing with this hyper-masculine branch of country music. I call it butt rock.”
“I thought I’d like to burn it to the ground and start over,” she added with regard to nation music particularly. “But it’s burning itself down without my help.”
