Orville Peck gives the girls everything as Playgirl’s first out gay male cover star
Country star Orville Peck is giving the girls everything in the new issue of Playgirl. (Playgirl)
Gay country singer Orville Peck made history as the first openly gay country music star to feature on the cover of Playgirl earlier this month.
For the cover, the 38-year-old South African musician stripped down for a steamy photoshoot. Of course, he kept his cowboy aesthetic, with a cowboy hat and his iconic fringed mask.
The shoot set Peck bare a lot of skin and show off his tattoos as he strips off the plaid shirt and denim shorts, leaving him in only white briefs. Of course, he also models some revealing chaps.
Some of the photos also show Peck completely naked, but tastefully posing so as not to reveal too much!
Peck is no stranger to raunchy cover shoots; in 2024, he did a fully nude photoshoot for Paper Magazine.
Following the cover announcement, Playboy also dropped behind-the-scenes footage of the artist as he strips down for the shoot.
“Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes!” one fan responded to the new content. Another wrote: “Yeehaw!”
The Playboy interview also gives context for what Peck finds sexy about the cowboy aesthetic.
“Anything that plays with the OG trope of male strippers and images of what masculinity is supposed to be, tied to heterosexuality, is sexy,” he shares.
‘What’s sexier than a little bit of rebellion?’
“Not only is there a reality of gay cowboys in the world and in history, but I think the idea of a cowboy is such a trope of masculinity.
“What’s sexier than a little bit of rebellion? And chaps? If you don’t think that’s gay I don’t know what to tell you.”
Peck also opened up about his new album, Mule, arriving on 18 September.
“I hope that having an album that talks about it with openness and humor, as only a queer person probably could, about their hurt, opens a bit more awareness,” he says.
Peck has said the album is “a timeline of the year that I got sober” and explores his experiences with addiction and sobriety.
“So often, especially in queer community, there’s numbing going on and substance abuse that out of context people would recognize that people are maybe in crisis,” Peck told Playgirl.
“As queer people we find a lot of different ways to mask what we’re really feeling because it’s part of our survival.
“We have to become more attuned to noticing when someone is screaming out for help. And we need to be better about feeling okay to reach out to the people we care about.”
The full and exclusive interview can be found on Playgirl.
