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- HOW THE RNCHY GAY WBOY SONG RAM RANCH BEME AN ANTI-NVOY PROTT ANTHEM
- A PORNO-METAL SONG ABOUT GAY COWBOYS IS DISPTG THE ANTI-VAX TCKER CONVOY
- ‘I’M HERE, I’M QUEER AND I’M COUNTRY’: THE TOP 5 GAY COUNTRY SONGS
- AN O TO GAY COWBOY ORGI IS THE ANTHEM FOR THE OTTAWA RISTANCE
- RANCH RISTANCE: EXPLIC GAY COWBOY ANTHEM DISPTS TCKER CONVOY
- MARTY RANEY’S ANTI-GAY, TRANSPHOBIC SONG IS STILL ONLE AS HOMTEAD RCUE: RANCH PREMIER
- FED-UP OTTAWA RINTS USE PORNOGRAPHIC METAL SONG ABOUT GAY COWBOYS TO DISPT FREEDOM CONVOY
- RAM RANCH RISTANCE: HOW A GAY WBOY SONG BEME AN ANTI-NVOY ANTHEM
- RAM RANCH RESISTANCE: HOW A GAY WBOY SONG TURNED TO AN ANTI-NVOY ANTHEM
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.
A PORNO-METAL SONG ABOUT GAY COWBOYS IS DISPTG THE ANTI-VAX TCKER CONVOY
"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. A Porno-Metal Song About Gay Cowboys Is Disptg the Anti-Vax Tcker Convoy.
“It was to get back at the homophobia of Nashville. There’s an unniable element of juvenile humor to the movement, echog the actns of leftist trolls the Uned Stat who filtrated Stop the Steal groups last year, rebrandg them to “Gay Socialists for Tmp.
‘I’M HERE, I’M QUEER AND I’M COUNTRY’: THE TOP 5 GAY COUNTRY SONGS
“But the more I started listeng, the more I started hearg people g homophobic language, g racist terms. A metal song about gay wboys sperate for dick has bee an unlikely anthem of those opposed to the anti-vacce, anti-lockdown protts Canadian pal has been subjected to the so-lled “Freedom Convoy” for over two weeks now, as prottors agast science have overn the cy, disptg the liv of lols and havg zero ncern for potentially spreadg COVID throughout the cy.
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.
AN O TO GAY COWBOY ORGI IS THE ANTHEM FOR THE OTTAWA RISTANCE
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.
RANCH RISTANCE: EXPLIC GAY COWBOY ANTHEM DISPTS TCKER CONVOY
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.
He said the songs, such as one about his iend Jake swimmg a lake, were rejected for beg “too gay. ” Fed up wh what he saw as the hate and anti-gay prejudice of the untry tablishment Nashville, he cid to wre a song showg how gay untry mic uld be. Long before he was on realy TV, he wrote and sang an anti-gay, homophobic song on a 1997 album that he ntued to promote, cludg nnectn wh his Disvery Channel show, and that’s still available now, more than six weeks after the work and productn pany pathetilly attempted to distance themselv om whout actually dog anythg.
MARTY RANEY’S ANTI-GAY, TRANSPHOBIC SONG IS STILL ONLE AS HOMTEAD RCUE: RANCH PREMIER
While the album is 23 years old—and certaly, societal attus toward gay and trans people have changed sce then—Marty has mentned the album several tim the past few years, cludg a 2017 Facebook post promotg a new episo of the show. I’ve not seen every episo, but those that I have, I’ve never seen Marty—or his -stars, his children Misty and Matt—say anythg homophobic or transphobic.
FED-UP OTTAWA RINTS USE PORNOGRAPHIC METAL SONG ABOUT GAY COWBOYS TO DISPT FREEDOM CONVOY
I also don’t remember ever seeg an out gay person on the show, and certaly not a same-sex uple.
RAM RANCH RISTANCE: HOW A GAY WBOY SONG BEME AN ANTI-NVOY ANTHEM
But the song certaly has embolned homophobic people, and given them affirmatn for their bigotry.
” Another wrote, “we are forced seeg gay day everywhere, at the amement parks, towns shut down for bee they don’t want to be labeled as anti so they surrenr to .
” Another acted as if beg gay or straight was a choice: “If i choose to be gay and talk about , i am ok ‘morn’ society. But if i choose to not be gay and voice like Marty did here, now i am a hater, prejudiced and homophobic. The song ntas several referenc to gay people beg unable to be parents; mocks the ia of people g out of the closet; and has at least two referenc to trans people, g offensive terms.
RAM RANCH RESISTANCE: HOW A GAY WBOY SONG TURNED TO AN ANTI-NVOY ANTHEM
Of urse, the reason there are gay pri paras is bee straight people have opprsed gay people. The chos’s lyrics attempt erase gay people: “I don’t believe Adam and Steve, ” Marty sgs.