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“The main stories in country are loneliness, heartbreak, disappointment, unrequited love,” remarked Orville Peck, the fringe-masked crooner at the forefront of the genre’s LGBTQ shift. “I think that those are things that are felt by almost every queer person at some point in their lives, and sometimes for a long part of our lives.” However, it’s only in the streaming age that the Nashville scene has started to accept that land music and queerness don’t necessitate to be mutually exclusive terms.
With traditional media no longer competent to serve as gatekeepers, a whole world of country artists who don’t fit the heteronormative mold have been able to get their music, and their message, out there to the masses. Everyone from non-binary singer-songwriter Paisley Fields to trans artist Mya Byrne to Black queer twin duo The Kentucky Gentlemen have built up loyal followings, though without much mainstream recognition. In addition to her other roles as a television star, makeup company owner, bar and motel proprietor, DJ, podcaster, and YouTube sensation, Trixie Mattel has become th
10 Top LGBTQ+ Country/Americana Anthems
While the country music music industry is still working toward equality and inclusion on several fronts, the onslaught of music streaming and maturation of social media have opened doors for artists in the LGBTQIA+ community to connect with music fans and build audiences.
While land music artist Lavender Country was a pioneer in the space, releasing a queer-themed country melody album in , it has a been a largely uphill battle for LGBTQIA+ artists in the genre.
Chely Wright, known for her top 20 Region Airplay hit &#;Shut Up and Drive&#; and her No. 1, &#;Single White Female,&#; came out publicly in Ty Herndon came out as gay in , having previously earned a handful of No. 1 Country Airplay hits in the s, including &#;What Matters Most&#; and &#;Living in a Moment.&#; That equal year, Billy Gilman (who start success in country music as a child with songs including &#;One Voice&#;) also came out publicly as gay.
Since then, the country music industry has slowly seen more openly gay artists and songwriters discover success. And cert
20 Country Songs That Share a LGBTQ+ Perspective
From alt-country to folk to dead-center mainstream country melody, the genre features an ever-growing list of artists who verb as LGBTQ+ &#x; and incorporate their perspective into their songs.
The presence of country artists who identify as queer is far from a new phenomenon. Songs sung from this perspective arguably date back to the adj s, when a band called the Sweet Violet Boys (also known as the Prairie Ramblers) released "I Love My Fruit," one of the earliest instances of a song thought to be about being gay. According to the BBC, a s country artist named Wilma Burgess is believed to be the genre's first openly gay star, charting 15 hits on the Billboard Country & Western charts between and In the late '70s, she left the music industry and opened up Nashville's first lesbian bar, the Hitching Post.
Lavender Country, led by its frontman Patrick Haggerty, is one of the best-known pioneers of LGBTQ+ country, and Haggerty remained a passionate anti-racism and gay rights activist until his