Maren Morris made a huge announcement!
The country singer, 34, took to Instagram on Sunday, June 9, to officially come out as bisexual in celebration of Pride Month.
"Happy to be the B in LGBTQ+ happy pride 🌈," Morris captioned the slew of photos of herself performing in Pheonix, Ariz., including one snap where she's holding up a rainbow flag.
"Happy Pride, Maren! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✨ Thank you for always supporting the LGBTQIA+ community and embracing your authenticity. ❤️," one fan penned in support of the "I Could Use a Love Song" vocalist.
"Welcome to the family. We are a big and loud sometimes. But can be quiet and not so visible. But one thing is for sure. We are everywhere and we take care of each other❤️🏳️🌈," a second added.
"I thought I couldn’t love you anymore than I already do. But then this. ❤️ 🏳️🌈" a third chimed in.
Morris has long been a staunch supporter of the LGBTQ+ community despite being involved in the highly conservative genre of music. "I hate feeling like I need to be the hall monitor of treating people like human beings in country music," she explained in a 2022 interview.
"It's exhausting. But there's a very insidious culture of people feeling very comfortable being transphobic and homophobic and racist, and that they can wrap it in a joke, and no one will ever call them out for it. It just becomes normal for people to behave like that," the "My Church" artist added.
Morris even went as far as to claim she was quitting country music due to its right-wing politics. "I’ve always been an asker of questions and a status quo challenger just by being a woman. So it wasn’t really even a choice,” brunette beauty explained. “The further you get into the country music business, that’s when you start to see the cracks. And once you see it, you can’t un-see it.”
"Being one of the few women that had any success on country radio, everything you do is looked at under a microscope. You’re scrutinized more than your male peers, even when you’re doing well. So I’ve had to clear all of that out of my head this year and just write songs. A lot of the drama within the community, I’ve chosen to step outside out of it," she revealed.
In a 2023 op-ed, Morris poured her heart out about how deeply the injustice affected her. "The way the country music industry has treated LGBTQ people has been awful — there’s been almost no representation. There are people like Ty Herndon, who wasn’t able to come out until he was basically not in the industry anymore. But there is progress being made: T.J. Osborne, one of my closest friends, came out a couple years ago, and there’s such support behind him because it’s like, 'Yeah, it doesn’t matter,'" she wrote.
In October 2023, the performer filed for divorce from Ryan Hurd, with whom she shares son Hayes, after five years of marriage. "There's a lot of personal stuff right now I'm wading through, processing, writing through," Morris explained in an interview shortly after their split. "I'm giving myself the time to do that and not having to rush a very, huge personal thing through an album being delivered. It's going to take a little bit longer than I had hoped, but I have to trust the process."
The Los Angeles Times conducted the 2022 interview with Morris.
Billboard published the 2023 op-ed by Morris.
