Maren Morris Dresses As Willie Nelson To Support Drag Performers For ‘Billboard’ Cover

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Maren Morris is making it clear: She stands with drag performers and the remainder of the LGBTQ+ assemblage this Pride Month. The vocalist appears connected the June screen of Billboard magazine, dressed successful resistance as Willie Nelson. Maren is beforehand and halfway connected the cover, which you tin spot here, sporting an all-black outfit, including a achromatic cowboy hat, portion wearing a grey wig styled successful 2 braids. She’s surrounded by resistance performers Eureka O’Hara, Landon Cider, Sasha Colby and Symone successful the almighty image.

Along with the photograph shoot, Maren hosted a roundtable with her chap screen stars to sermon the attempts to ban resistance performances successful Tennessee and different states, on with different caller anti-LGBTQ+ legislations. “I’m from Texas, I unrecorded successful Tennessee, and I bash emotion the assemblage I person there, but these bills astir incentivize america to crook connected 1 another,” Maren pointed out while moderating the discussion. “They’re rewarding america to crook each different in, which feels benignant of similar a Nazi Germany happening wherever we crook connected our ain communities.”

Maren Morris astatine the GLAAD Awards. (Gregory Pace/Shutterstock)

She besides touched connected the “vagueness” of the resistance prohibition bills that are being touted, including successful Tennessee. “It’s intentionally hard to cognize wherever the enactment is betwixt what is resistance and what is not, and it’s evidently truly meant to eradicate the beingness of trans people,” Maren said. “I mean, adjacent a batch of these [male] state creator deterioration tighter jeans than I do!”

A national territory justice deemed the resistance prohibition successful Tennessee unconstitutional earlier this month, but disorder and fearfulness has already acceptable in. “In a spot similar Tennessee, it’s evidently truly meant to fearmonger,” Maren explained.

Maren has ever been an advocator for the LGBTQ+ assemblage and has ne'er been acrophobic to talk out, adjacent though doing truthful has been frowned upon successful the state euphony assemblage successful the past. “I don’t deliberation immoderate of america got into this creation signifier to beryllium an activist, but that’s yet thrust upon you to beryllium successful this abstraction and to consciousness similar you tin slumber astatine night,” she admitted. “You’re going to suffer fans on the mode — that’s conscionable portion and parcel of being public-facing. But determination is simply a lane that you’re widening: I spot it twelvemonth aft twelvemonth astatine my shows. The assemblage feels truthful divers and safe. I cognize everyone likes money, but is it worthy your biography saying that you ne'er picked a broadside due to the fact that some sides wage wealth to bargain a t-shirt?”

In the autumn of 2022, Maren made headlines for clapping backmost at Jason Aldean’s wife, Brittany Aldean, aft she made an transphobic remark connected Instagram. “It’s truthful casual to, like, not beryllium a scumbag human?” Maren tweeted astatine the time. “Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie.”

After the feud, Brittany did an interrogation connected Fox News to support her ignorant post, and the web branded Maren arsenic a “Lunatic Country Music Person” on-air. Maren past utilized the operation for a circular of merchandise, which she sold to donate the proceeds to GLAAD’s Transgender Media Program and the Trans Lifeline.

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