Nelson Unveils ‘Gay Cowboy’ Valente – Billboard

Contents:

• ‘I’M HERE, I’M QUEER AND I’M COUNTRY’: THE TOP 5 GAY COUNTRY SONGS
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• WILLIE NELSON RELEAS GAY COWBOY SONG
• NELSON UNVEILS ‘GAY COWBOY’ VALENTE

‘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.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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.

WILLIE NELSON RELEAS GAY COWBOY SONG

The nnotatn beg, of urse, that a arth of masculy equat to beg gay.

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.

NELSON UNVEILS ‘GAY COWBOY’ VALENTE

) It would be easy to speculate on Vernon Dalhart’s sexualy, or why a homophobic novelty song would lnch him to mil obscury. His versn mocks yolg while praisg , sgg, “It sounds rather silly/ but every hillbilly/spends half his life sgg that way, ” as a wk and nod to the old trope that the people angrit at homosexualy are hidg the closet themselv. Hidn History of Queer Country MicThe hidn history of gay untry mic Dalhart.

Back 2006, Nelson cid to ver a famo gay wboy song tled “Cowboys are Secretly Frequently Fond of Each Other, ” origally performed by Ned Sublette. We all know that gay culture do not mix well wh the untry scene so this would fely put a qutn on the fans of the mic legend.