Kacey Musgraves accidentally ended up in a gay sauna
Kacey Musgraves accidentally wandered into a gay sauna while in Sydney.(Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images)
Kacey Musgraves accidentally wandered into a gay sauna while in Sydney.(Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images)
Country music star Kacey Musgraves amused fans at a recent concert by confessing that she accidentally visited a gay sauna.
At her first Sydney show, the Grammy-Award-winning singer told the audience that she was looking for an infra-red sauna when she stumbled across Sydney Sauna.
Jameson Farn, the author of Bathhouse Babylon, a book that tells of his experiences of working in and managing gay bathhouses over a 13-year period, previously described gay saunas as “a safe space for gay men”, with most actively promote safe sex, he told PinkNews.
“Sounds like you’re familiar, you love that place,” Musgraves shouted to cheering gays in the audience.
“It’s apparently the gay sauna destination of this country … They said wet rooms. What? They said there are 23 serviceable wet rooms.
“This is very gay… this is not meant for me,” she said she realised. However, she still went in a bid to make friends and be nosy. “That’s where we’re gonna go after the show, they said it’s 24 hours. After-party at Sydney Sauna.”
In the comment section of a clip of the moment, one fan wrote: “She went out of her way to embrace and celebrate the gays in the audience,” while someone else deemed her a “true ally and queen”.
In 2018, Musgraves, who comes from the tiny community of Golden, in Texas, opened up about feeling guilty for bulling gay children when she was young. “At 18, I was a lot more redneck than I am now,” she told Billboard. “I think back to who I was then: being in a small-town high school and seeing a gay guy get made fun of, I’d laugh along and not really think much about it.”
But when a loved one revealed their sexuality to her, her way of thinking shifted and she regretted the way she had behaved.
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