In 2021, an openly queer woman named Grace Baldridge took the worship scene by surprise as she, who goes by the performance name Semler, overtook the highly popular Lauren Daigle for the number one spot on iTunes for the Christian music charts.
In a now-deleted tweet, at the time, Semler wrote: Y’ALL WE DID IT! AN OPENLY QUEER ARTIST IS SITTING AT #1 ON …