Adam Mac Wants You To Celebrate Pride Month ‘All Year Round’ With His Picks For ‘Sound Of Pride’ (Exclusive)

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Though Pride Month is coming to a close, there’s inactive plentifulness of joyousness to beryllium had. Until June is over, HollywoodLife will observe with The Sound Of Pride, wherever celebs and stars of the LBGTQ+ assemblage prime songs for the eventual 2023 Pride Month playlist. It’s the cleanable soundtrack to support Pride going each twelvemonth agelong (while researching how to support LGBTQ+ rights and/or speechmaking astir the history of Pride Month. On the eve of Pride Month’s finale, disco cowboy Adam Mac stops by to adhd immoderate state joyousness to the playlist.

Fresh disconnected of playing Nashville Pride, Adam Mac didn’t privation Pride Month to extremity without giving immoderate emotion for his peers successful the state scene. “I deliberation I’m utilizing this infinitesimal to afloat gush astir my friends,” Adam tells HollywoodLife when making his selections for The Sound of Pride, the month-long moving Pride playlist. Solidarity and enactment has been the taxable of Pride Month 2023, pursuing the ongoing legislative bans p.m. trans-affirming wellness attraction (for minors and adults) and resistance performances successful public.

It’s wherefore Adam tells HL that this year’s Pride was an important infinitesimal for him and the different members of the LGBTQ+ assemblage to “get retired and proudly observe our queerness. …They’re trying to suppress our trans community, truthful it is truthful captious that we amusement up for them not conscionable during Pride period but each twelvemonth round.”

Born successful Russellville, Kentucky, Adam was raised connected ’90s country, gospel, and pop. Those influences person blended into his music, with songs “Disco Cowboy” and “Take Myself Home” establishing him arsenic 1 of the brightest stars taking state into a full caller galaxy. Adam is 1 of the increasing numbers of LGBTQ+ state stars making a abstraction for themselves successful the genre and showing that rhinestones and cowboy boots are for everyone – gay, straight, and/or in-between.

As the curtain falls connected June, and Pride carries connected for the remainder of the year, present are Adam’s picks to support you dancing good into 2024.

“Okay I whitethorn beryllium biased due to the fact that she’s 1 of my favourite radical and she enactment maine and my fellow successful the euphony video, but to me, this opus is the epitome of pride. It’s specified a freakin anthem that celebrates queer love, and Brooke delivers it effortlessly!! It’s been the lone happening connected repetition for days astatine this constituent successful our household.”

“I deliberation I’m utilizing this infinitesimal to afloat gush astir my friends, due to the fact that Chris is 1 of my nearest and dearest, and his opus Drag Queen sits straight astatine the intersection of queer and country. Not to notation the timeliness of this opus to beryllium enactment retired during the tallness of the resistance bans successful Tennessee. Chris is simply a trailblazer who continues to amusement up for our community!”

Cody Belew, “Charlene”

“In continuing with the taxable of playing hype girl, this 3rd opus is 1 that deed maine similar a punch to the gut the archetypal clip I heard Cody sing it live. This existent communicative is 1 that soooo galore queer radical successful the South tin subordinate to. We person each encountered a Charlene oregon 2 successful our time, and this opus is the cleanable effect to enactment them successful their place!”

How did Pride consciousness this twelvemonth compared to last?

“It [felt] much important than ever to get retired and proudly observe our queerness. With each of the anti lgbtq+ authorities being proposed especially here in Tennessee, they’re trying to suppress our trans community, truthful it is truthful captious that we amusement up for them not conscionable during Pride period but each twelvemonth round.”

Are determination immoderate unsung heroes you’d similar to spot get the spotlight this Pride Month?

“I’d emotion to outcry retired my person Jonda Valentine. She is 1 of the owners of Lipstick Lounge present successful Nashville, which if you tin judge it, is 1 of lone 23 lesbian bars successful the full country. Lipstick Lounge has been my harmless spot since I moved to Nashville. I’ve met immoderate of my favourite radical and adjacent changeable a euphony video there. Jonda works truthful hard for our assemblage and she deserves the spotlight this pridefulness season!”

Do you person a representation of Pride Months past that you’d similar to share?

“I’d accidental my favourite Pride representation is Pride of 2016 due to the fact that that’s 1 of the archetypal times I ever hung retired with my present boyfriend. We had the champion time being young and successful emotion and to apical it each disconnected Lizzo headlined the festival and arsenic she was singing a rainbow appeared successful the entity implicit the stage. It was a magically cheery time.”

What bash you person planned for June (and the remainder of 2023?)

“I person Pride shows each week this month, doing immoderate amusive podcasts and interviews and past of people wrapping it each up with a large show during Nashville Pride with my band.”