Contents:
- HOW THE RNCHY GAY WBOY SONG RAM RANCH BEME AN ANTI-NVOY PROTT ANTHEM
- LIL NAS X IS GOOD COMPANY: COWBOYS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BLACK AND GAY
HOW THE RNCHY GAY WBOY SONG RAM RANCH BEME AN ANTI-NVOY PROTT ANTHEM
(Stt Olson/Getty Imag)6:33How the rnchy gay wboy song Ram Ranch beme an anti-nvoy prott anthemGrant MacDonald is "honoured" that his erotic heavy-metal song was chosen as an anthem agast protters llg for an end to panmic rtrictns and recent weeks, unter protters have ed Ram Ranch — a song whose explic lyrics tell the story of "18 naked wboys" — to troll anti-mandate monstrators Wdsor, Ont., and MacDonald, a Toronto-based songwrer who penned the tune a ago, first heard his song was tied to the protts, he worried the nvoy protters had taken on themselv. It was wrten as a rebe of Nashville's mic dtry, which he scribed as homophobic for rejectg same-sex themed untry songs he had wrten. "Ram Ranch gave me an outlet to stand up for my creativy, for my gay brothers, for our eedom and digny and love, " he told Day 6.
While ridg his groundswell of support, he also me out as gay a seri of tweets.
LIL NAS X IS GOOD COMPANY: COWBOYS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BLACK AND GAY
For many, the wboy has always been black and gay. Some of the groups, like the Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn, explicly ed the language of civil rights to urge for the reimagg of the wboy in. Officially formed 1985 after a of succsful gay roos Reno, Nevada, this associatn tapped to the wboy craze of Reagan’s Ameri.
Gay cloggers, le dancers, two steppers, and rooers worked to create spac where many men and women who had fled ral plac fear uld fd a nnectn to the lifeways of their childhoods. Lil Nas X has handled backlash om homophobic fans well. He explaed that he unrstood the nsequenc of his cisn to e out, statg “I know the people who listen to [‘Old Town Road’] the most, they’re not acceptg of homosexualy.
” Yet as this young man is undated wh both praise and vrl, told that he is eher sted to be fotten or reprents the future, he should not be ma to feel alone—the history of the wboy is the history of black, gay wboys.