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Contents:

• ‘I’M HERE, I’M QUEER AND I’M COUNTRY’: THE TOP 5 GAY COUNTRY SONGS
• HOW THE RNCHY GAY WBOY SONG RAM RANCH BEME AN ANTI-NVOY PROTT ANTHEM
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• WILLIE NELSON RELEAS GAY COWBOY SONG

‘I’M HERE, I’M QUEER AND I’M COUNTRY’: THE TOP 5 GAY COUNTRY SONGS

While the stereotype is that untry mic is about as far om gay-iendly as you n get, that’s not always the se.

That may be due to the lyrics, however, which tell the story of a gay man cshg on his straight iend. Though Sublette’s not gay himself, he lived on Christopher Street New York Cy, next door to a gay untry bar.

HOW THE RNCHY GAY WBOY SONG RAM RANCH BEME AN ANTI-NVOY PROTT ANTHEM

And hey, was good enough for Pansy Divisn to ver for a Stop Homophobia pilatn 7″! Freddy Freeman’s “I’m Here, I’m Queer and I’m Country” feels like a manifto for the gay untry mic fan. While Mgrav herself is straight, the song was -wrten wh Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, both openly gay Nashville songwrers.

” While the song was censored when she performed for the CMA Awards broadst, wasn’t the reference to homosexualy that was cut, but the reference to smokg a jot. No article on gay untry mic would be plete whout a mentn of Pat Haggerty, the lear of the first gay untry band Lavenr Country.

Rerd for a private-prs LP 1973, “Cry’ The Cocksuckg Tears” is a fearls prott song agast homophobia and sexism. As wboy culture flex s mcular hand over the heart of pop culture and the Amerin idm once aga, ’s hard not to see the homoeroticism that pervas s history. The nnotatn beg, of urse, that a arth of masculy equat to beg gay.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

So, acrdg to this formulatn, what mak “The Lavenr Cowboy” gay are three thgs: his affectn for self re, as a suggtn that he isn’t as physilly pable as the other wpok; his abily to grow cht hair; and the e of the word “lavenr.

” (Also, jt maybe, “two cti” has a gay phallic nnotatn. It was around the 1920’s that this lor beme a slur agast homosexualy.

While was a slur, was also still a gag (pun tend) agast homosexualy.

WILLIE NELSON RELEAS GAY COWBOY SONG

) It would be easy to speculate on Vernon Dalhart’s sexualy, or why a homophobic novelty song would lnch him to mil obscury.