Chely Wrights First LGBT Performance

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Chely Wright's First LGBT Performance
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          Jun 18, 2010
          
        
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Country singer Chely Wright, who came out as lesbian in May, made her first performance at an LGBT event -- the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in San Francisco. Wright performed her song "Heavenly Days," backed by country musicians Jeremy Lister and Grammy-winner Rodney Crowell, who she called her "straight ally." 

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