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Chely Wright, who came out last May, will marry her girlfriend Lauren Blitzer in August.Almost a year after coming out, Chely Wright is engaged to be married.
The 40-year-old country singer plans to wed girlfriend Lauren Blitzer, a GLBT activist, in Connecticut this summer.
Connecticut is one of five U.S. states that has legalized same-sex marriage.
"Thank you all so much for the wonderful wishes!! We are so HAPPY!!!" Blitzer tweeted Wednesday night.
"It's been a really exciting time," Wright told E! Online. "We fit so well. And the best part is that our families go so beautifully together."
The women, who both plan on wearing white to the August wedding, and are working with fashion designer Jose Dias to design their dresses, "want a family," the singer said.
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"The benefit of being out is I get to have everything that everyone else has. I do want a family and I do want traditional things," she told E! "I just had no idea it would happen so quickly. I feel like it was a blessing from God."
Wright came out in last May and was the first major country music artist to declare that she was gay. Wright said she'd felt compelled to conceal her sexual orientation for years in order to make it in the country music business.
The songstress told AutoStraddle.com in January that "record sales went directly in half" after her announcement, and she received hate mail and death threats.
"In coming out, I had a feeling that it would diminish my wage earning, and that feeling was correct," she told the site. "And, I am fine with that."
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