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    Fresh off playing Club Skirts The Dinah this past weekend, the news is out that country singer Chely Wright is engaged to her girlfriend Laura Blitzer. Wright came out as a lesbian publicly just under a year ago, releasing her memoir Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer and a very personal record Lifted Off the Ground.
By Tracy E. GilchristApril 06 2011 / 11:09 AM
Tracy E. Gilchrist
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the
intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
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Fresh off playing Club Skirts The Dinah this past weekend, the news is out that country singer Chely Wright is engaged to her girlfriend Laura Blitzer, People reports. 

Wright came out publicly just under a year ago, releasing her memoir Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer and a very personal record Lifted Off the Ground. 

"Out country singer Chely Wright and her fiancée, Lauren Blitzer, a GLBT Civil Rights activist have set a date and plan to be married in Connecticut Aug. 20," Wright's rep told People. "They met through their youth advocacy work, and say that their passion for Scrabble holds them together."

Congratulations to the happy couple!
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