When Chely Wright came out of the closet in 2010, revealing to Nashville and to millions of country fans that she was gay, that emergence put her in a position to become a spokesperson and activist on behalf of the LGBTQ community, as someone middle America had known, trusted and sung along with. Now, in 2025, she’s doing a different kind of coming out — as a corporate person, who’s at least temporarily setting aside music, and the platform that comes with it, to take a senior executive gig with ISS, a company that has 320,000 employees around the world.
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