Patrick Haggerty was an American country musician. He was the lead singer and guitarist of the country music band Lavender Country.
The band formed in 1972, self-titled 1973 album is the first known gay-themed album in country music history.
Haggerty was born on September 27, 1944, and raised on a dairy farm near Port Angeles, Washington.
He attended Port Angeles Senior High in Port Angeles, Washington, from 1958 to 1962, where he was a “pep promoter. Following college, he joined the Peace Corps but was discharged in 1966 for being gay. He later became an artist and an activist with the local chapter of the Gay Liberation Front after moving to Seattle to pursue graduate studies at the University of Washington.
After disbanding Lavender Country in 1976, Haggerty ran two unsuccessful campaigns for political office, once for Seattle City Council and once as an independent candidate for a seat in the Washington House of Representatives, and continued to work as gay rights and anti-racism activist.
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Patrick Haggerty was married to an African-American retired Navy, “J.B.” Broughton.
The pair who met in 1987, married in the mid-2000s and have since been together.
According to Haggerty in a 2018 interview with Robert L. Conway of Conway’s Concast, they are still “madly and gayly in love”.
J.B.” Broughton and Patrick Haggerty remained married until Patrick died from complications of a stroke on October 31, 2022.