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In 1992, Garth Brooks was the biggest country star in the world when he released "We Shall Be Free," a song with the lyric: "When we're free to love anyone we choose."

Country radio panicked. Stations refused to play it. The song stalled at #12, his first single to miss the country Top 10. And Garth refused to back down.

He said the line on the image in a 1999 interview with George magazine, at the height of his commercial peak, when he could have easily ducked the question.

When he opened a bar in Nashville in 2023, he made it clear that transphobic customers were not welcome.