Like Me by Chely Wright5/19/2023 The new centre, which will be called the LIKEME Lighthouse, is the most ambitious project undertaken by the LIKEME Organization, whose name is a play on the title of her memoir, "Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer." The book and her seventh "Lifted Off the Ground," were released when she came out in May 2010. "That would have meant everything to me had I been a kid growing up in Wellsville, knowing that there is a beautiful facility in our major city, that that was OK. "This just gives so much hope to these outlying areas, that your major metropolitan area has a gay and lesbian centre," said the 41-year-old Wright, who married LGBT activist Lauren Blitzer last summer. The location was chosen, in part, because Wright grew up 40 miles away, in Wellsville, Kan. LIKEME Organization, a non-profit group Wright started, is opening a community centre in Kansas City this weekend that will serve as a place for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their families and friends to meet up. When country musician Chely Wright came out as a lesbian, radio stations stopped playing her songs, record sales dropped and venues stopped booking her.ĭespite the challenges she's faced over the past two years, the performer known for her hits such as "Single White Female" and "Shut Up and Drive" has no regrets, and she wants to help others facing similar challenges.
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