Country singer Maren Morris shared a heartfelt moment RuPaul’s Drag Race Queen after she appeared as a guest judge on Season 15.
The Grammy winner apologized to contestants for how country music treated the LGBTQ+ community. bare A clip shared after Friday’s episode featured LGBTQ+ activist Ts Madison as a guest judge.
“Coming from country music and its relationship with LGBTQ+ members, I’m sorry,” Morris said. “I love you all for making me feel like a brave voice in country music. So thank you for inspiring me.”
“I’m going to cry,” she added.
“Your being here shows that you are on the side,” Queen Isabel Brooks said to a visibly emotional country crooner. I love hearing her talk, because when you’re with a country artist, you often fail to express your more progressive ideals, and if she’s just here she’s rolling with LGBT It shows that there is
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Morris has long demonstrated support for the LGBTQ+ community. Last year, Jason Aldean’s conservative social media influencer wife Brittany Aldean clashed after she made transphobic remarks. “, and conservative TV host Tucker Carlson called her a “madman” and a “fake country music singer.”
In response, Morris released a new product entitled “Crazy Country Music Man” and announced that the proceeds would be split between Trans Lifeline and GLAAD’s transgender media program.
Morris also recently refuted Candace Cameron Bure’s comment that she’s putting traditional marriage at the center of her faith-based Great American Family Network. Full house Morris, DJ Tanner’s character, wrote on Instagram that he “makes the DJ gay again.”
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