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After releasing his first solo EP, Love Is Love   in 2017   Trey Pearson has released several singles, including a song called "Oh, Boy" and a "last minute Christmas song" called "Under the Mistletoe" in 2019. The Christmas song that the former Everyday Sunday singer wrote and recorded celebrates a spirit of liberation that the gay singer-songwriter sang about on his debut EP. The secular, festive synth-pop track explores a side of Christmas that CCM community shies away from: holiday romance. Even more taboo: LGBTQ+ romance in a post-evangelical context.  STAND A LITTLE NEARER / LET'S LET OUR TOES TOUCH. Shortly after coming out, many media outlets picked up Pearson's story, including The View. In his June 2016 interview , Pearson stated that he was 'not dating" but rather "taking at least year to get to know myself as a gay person. . . before I start getting to know who someone else is." Since then, Pearson has talked to a num

Everyday Sunday was a Christian Rock band from Ohio that grew in popularity thanks to RadioU and TVU , which aired their played their independent music alongside other major Christian rock acts. The band signed to Flicker Records in 2002 before the label folded and then signed to Peter Furler 's Inpop Records before going independent in 2013. The band was mostly forgotten with the countless Christian Rock bands of the early '00s, until lead singer Trey Pearson made headlines in May 2016. Pearson had recently divorced his wife of seven and half years. The couple had two children and the divorce was amicable, but Pearson came out to his wife and his family as gay. In May 2016, he came out publicly--career suicide for almost everyone hoping to stay in the Christian music industry. But with a changing music climate in which independent artists have a larger platform and with a broader LGBTQ community and allies both in and out of the church and in and out of the ex-vengelical