Country Music Singer Opens up About HIV Status, Sexuality with Release of New Song

Country music singer opens up about HIV status, sexuality with release of new song

For one Nashville country music singer, this has been an especially meaningful Pride month.David Michael Hawkins released the song “Sin,” which in a statement a week before its June 20 release, he called “the most vulnerable song of my life.”

This Nashville country singer is opening up about his sexuality and HIV status in new song 'Sin'

Nashville country singer David Michael Hawkins is stepping out to be unapologetically himself, and his new single “Sin” is as vulnerable as it gets. The exposed song is out today — during Pride Month and ahead of National HIV Testing Day on June 27.Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter.Hawkins, who is out and is living with HIV, wrote the song for the underdog. “I wrote ‘SIN’ because I k…