Trae Crowder

The thing that made it different is that like, so I was raised by a single father and my dad had only one sibling, a younger brother, my uncle Tim and my uncle Tim is openly gay and has been since, you know, I was born.

So, uh,

and this was, you know, I'm growing up, I'm a kid in the nineties in the rural South.

So there's like, I mean, just rampant homophobia, you know?

And, uh,

And I always loved Uncle Tim and was always just very opposed to that.

And part of that also was that I did not grow up in the church at all.

So those two things definitely made me sort of stand out.

And also I was very—combative is not the right word, but I was very open with how I felt about that stuff and my disagreements.

All the time. But even though it wasn't as much of a thing, you weren't supposed to talk about like religion and politics. Right. But, but still, but the main thing for me, I've talked about this a lot, but it's true.

All the time. But even though it wasn't as much of a thing, you weren't supposed to talk about like religion and politics. Right. But, but still, but the main thing for me, I've talked about this a lot, but it's true.

All the time. But even though it wasn't as much of a thing, you weren't supposed to talk about like religion and politics. Right. But, but still, but the main thing for me, I've talked about this a lot, but it's true.

And a lot of people were—

A lot of times the people in places like that who are on the other side or on the left or whatever, they just – they, like, never speak up, and I don't blame them.

The thing that made it different is that like, so I was raised by a single father and my dad had only one sibling, a younger brother, my uncle Tim and my uncle Tim is openly gay and has been since, you know, I was born. So, uh, and this was, you know, I'm growing up, I'm a kid in the nineties in the rural South. So there's like, I mean, just rampant homophobia, you know? And, uh,

The thing that made it different is that like, so I was raised by a single father and my dad had only one sibling, a younger brother, my uncle Tim and my uncle Tim is openly gay and has been since, you know, I was born. So, uh, and this was, you know, I'm growing up, I'm a kid in the nineties in the rural South. So there's like, I mean, just rampant homophobia, you know? And, uh,

The thing that made it different is that like, so I was raised by a single father and my dad had only one sibling, a younger brother, my uncle Tim and my uncle Tim is openly gay and has been since, you know, I was born. So, uh, and this was, you know, I'm growing up, I'm a kid in the nineties in the rural South. So there's like, I mean, just rampant homophobia, you know? And, uh,

It's like you don't want to be the one that ruins Thanksgiving dinner or whatever or just gets yelled – gets ganged up on.

So I get it, but I never had that problem when I was growing up, and what I've always chalked that up to is the other thing that was going on with me as a kid was that, like –

I was the smart kid in my school, which I realize now looking back is like being the straightest guy to share a concert.