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 You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Chely Wright has married girlfriend Lauren Blitzer just a little over a year after the country music star came out about being a lesbian and revealed just how painful that confession was in the world of country music. 
 
 Wright, who has posted wedding photos on Twitter of herself and Blitzer in white gowns, announced to the world in May 2010 that she was a lesbian. 
 
 "Country music would rather an artist be a drunk -- they even encourage and endorse that one," Wright said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times' Geoff Boucher shortly after she came out. 
 
 "You get good money from Jim Beam to put that emblem on the side of your bus. I was on the Crown Royal tour, and I have to say it was one of my favorite tours. They would rather you were a drug addict than be gay. They will forgive you if you beat your wife, lose your kids to state, get six divorces, make a sex tape, get labeled as a tramp — any and all of it is better than being gay." 
 
 After the honeymoon, Wright will see how the latest turn in her personal life has affected her career. 
 
 In an interview earlier this year with the blog Autostraddle, Wright said coming out "didn't help my career." 
 
 A January article in the Tennessean said that Wright’s sales were down about two-thirds from her last studio album and noted that she had shifted her focus from country music to Americana. 
 
 But Saturday was a day of celebration for the 40-year-old singer and Blitzer, 30, an LGBT activist. The couple married at the home of Blitzer’s aunt in Connecticut. 
 
 On Sunday, Wright's Twitter account was filled with congratulations from fans: 
 
 "Congratulations on your big day tomorrow! Wishing you a long and joyful life together. (@MaddiesCorner)” 
 
 "congrats lady!!!! Wishing you and your love so much happiness! (from @AudraEqualityMc)” 
 
 A comment she made last year is fitting given this weekend's celebration: "I feel like I'm floating," Wright said after coming out. "It's like my friends who are in the know, which are not many, and my family members who know, which isn't all of them, are lifting me up to get through this." 
 
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 Chely Wright's 'Lifted Off the Ground' 
 
 Chely Wright finds strength to face the music 
 
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 -- Amy Hubbard 
 
 Photo: Chely Wright. Credit: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times
– She probably didn't make $17.9 million doing it, but country crooner Chely Wright has gotten married to girlfriend Lauren Blitzer a year after coming out on the cover of People magazine. The pair wed yesterday in Connecticut, and Wright's Twitter account was abuzz with photos of the two women in their dresses and congratulations from fans. Wright has said that admitting she was gay "didn't help my career," and the LA Times notes that sales of her most recent album had dropped by two-thirds over its predecessor.