Maren Morris Explains Why She Gets ‘Heated’ About LGBTQ Issues Amid Brittany Aldean Feud: ‘It Hits Closer to Home’
usmagazine.comNear to her heart. Maren Morris explained why she gets so wound up when it comes to issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community after her recent clash with Brittany Aldean.The 32-year-old songwriter opened up about her passionate stance during an eye-opening interview with GLAAD ahead of the organization’s annual Spirit Day campaign.
Morris recalled growing up in Arlington, Texas, and being surrounded by the queer community from a young age.“It was always just very normal,” she explained on Thursday, September 29, noting that she was involved in theater throughout school and had gay-identifying friends. “My mom was really close to her uncle growing up, who sadly died in the early ’90s of AIDS.
It was just always a conversation in our household that we’re all the same and there is no ‘us’ and ‘you.’ … I definitely feel like it hits closer to home for me now, having a son — and I have gay family members.”Morris pointed out that she “didn’t realize how important” that mindset of equality was until she became an adult and started “solidifying” her own views.
Welcoming her first child, son Hayes, in 2020 with husband Ryan Hurd also put the topic into a new perspective.“That’s all I can do going forward with my son is have those same conversations so it’s not even a complex or a thing, because it shouldn’t be,” she added. “I definitely get heated because … we’re talking about people’s lives.
