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Contents:

• QUEERCUTS: MY GAY BANJO
• MY GAY BANJO: MAKG NOISE AND LOOKG PRETTY
• MY GAY BANJO GETS GAYER WH NEW "LIKE MAGIC" MIC VIO
• HEAR JT HILTNER’S GAY BLUEGRASS AT
• MY GAY BANJO: COUNTRY BOYS THE CY
• MY GAY BANJO ISN’T QUE BLUEGRASS, BUT MAYBE A TAD COUNTRY?
• MY GAY BANJO
• 'MY GAY BANJO' RELEAS 'COUNTRY BOYS IN THE CY'
• ARTIST: MY GAY BANJO
• MY GAY BANJO
• MY GAY BANJO - COUNTRY BOYS IN THE CY LYRICS
• QUEER COUNTRY: LBIAN AND GAY MASTREAM COUNTRY ARTISTS? (BOOK EXCERPT)

QUEERCUTS: MY GAY BANJO

If the song feels tradnal s nial-of-heartbreak motif, nsir this: The 26-year-old Hiltner, who is openly gay, says the lyrics were spired by his “horrible hab of fallg love wh straight men.

MY GAY BANJO: MAKG NOISE AND LOOKG PRETTY

“I never thought that a 26-year-old gay banjo player and a 65-year-old Jewish bassist would be iends and -wrers, ” Hiltner (left) said of his kship wh Weisberger. Robt Rerds“I never thought that a 26-year-old gay banjo player and a 65-year-old Jewish bassist would be iends and -wrers, ” he said.

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MY GAY BANJO GETS GAYER WH NEW "LIKE MAGIC" MIC VIO

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HEAR JT HILTNER’S GAY BLUEGRASS AT

"I first saw Julia and Owen play together as My Gay Banjo years ago a Brooklyn livg room... "My Gay Banjo...

MY GAY BANJO: COUNTRY BOYS THE CY

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MY GAY BANJO ISN’T QUE BLUEGRASS, BUT MAYBE A TAD COUNTRY?

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MY GAY BANJO

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When he me out as gay, and also revealed that when he had been sexually abed by an uncle, he was disowned om his fay. Herndon is nsired by most to be the first mastream male untry artist to e out as gay when he did so 2014.

The album explored the tersectn of beg gay and relig and her song "Lovg You" is a self-acceptance anthem about lovg who you love no matter Getty Imag. The duo My Gay Banjo is Owen Taylor and Julia Steele Allen.

'MY GAY BANJO' RELEAS 'COUNTRY BOYS IN THE CY'

WABE's Jim Burrs terviews the duo My Gay Banjo. “My Gay Banjo” (the band's theme song, wh a nod to Shakira). My Gay Banjo brought together untry and character songs I’d wrten for plays, and Owen’s folk songs he’d wrten over time.

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Queer untry duo " My Gay Banjo" is makg wav the untry mic scene as openly LGBT micians, havg recently released their third album, "Country Boys the Cy.

ARTIST: MY GAY BANJO

"Maybe we are rvg out a 'My Gay Banjo' sized niche untry mic and maybe we are part of a small emergg scene of queer untry micians. "Check out the vio above and for more rmatn on "My Gay Banjo" and the duo's tour, head here to vis their webse. ℗ 2014 My Gay Banjo.

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MY GAY BANJO

Jake Owens, bt known for untry-pop hs wh breezy swagger and beachont settgs, posted a ver of Cher's "Believe" — a selectn he claimed to have arrived at by Googlg "gayt songs of all time" — tribute to the LGBTQIA+ people his ner circle and Miranda Lambert, the 21st Century's most cheekily class nsc, arena-headlg, hard untry heroe, tweeted a ftive photo of her hband, her brother and her at New York Cy Pri and hashtagged "ally.

MY GAY BANJO - COUNTRY BOYS IN THE CY LYRICS

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In a way, they replayed a pattern that had emerged before — at moments when former major label untry acts Chely Wright, Ty Herndon, Shelly Fairchild and Billy Gilman me out and, pecially, when "Follow Your Arrow, " Kacey Mgrav' easygog toast to personal eedom, queer displays of affectn clud, drew attentn not only to her acceptg outlook, but her top-flight -wrers Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, both of whom happened to be openly gay, and won the three of them a CMA award.

QUEER COUNTRY: LBIAN AND GAY MASTREAM COUNTRY ARTISTS? (BOOK EXCERPT)

In that sential volume, Hubbs explaed that what we now thk of as homophobia was once part of middle-class rpectabily — that "queer acceptance" was nsired a low-class, morally spect outlook until the 1970s, when began to be claimed as enlightened, socially progrsive high ground. "More specifilly, even as aligns self wh trailer-park thenticy, Swift's vio is erected on the stereotype of the redneck transphobe/homophobe. Followg the Appalachian Strg Band Mic Ftival Wt Virgia last summer, fiddler and banjo player Jake Blount ma a triumphant social media post about the "Gay Sweep" the gatherg's provg ground of performg ntts; the wng micians had all been LGBTQIA+ people, many also people of lor, and both applied to him.

The sense of ntext and muny is growg around the mic-makers, thanks to iativ and scholarship om the lik of the nonprof anizatnal effort Bluegrass Pri, which found s early momentum California and will go virtual later this month; DIY, multi-artist Gay Ole Opry lps Brooklyn, Nashville, the Bay Area and elsewhere; queer roots shows tucked to World of Bluegrass and Amerina Ft schl; the onle magaz Strange Fire and Country Queer; the events, tersectnal projects and thrivg social media prence of Queer Appalachia and Southern Fried Queer Pri; documentari like Invisible: Gay Women Southern Mic and the oral history Country Queers, and the short film Domant Chord; books by Hubbs and amics rearchg queer, ral life outsi of mic; the tobgraphilly enriched lerary output of Dorothy Allison and so much other existg and emergg work. The Highwomen's "If She Ever Leav Me, " regardls of whether or not is the first gay untry song (and isn't), is no doubt a landmark song for the queer untry muny, but neher the band nor the album got support om one of the biggt mastream untry gatekeepers: untry rad.

The same go, too, for addrsg racial equaly untry mic, which is jt as eply entrenched the tablishment's current mechanisms and needs to be nonted when nsirg mastream untry mic's homogeney. Jon Freeman ("I'm a wrer/edor for Rollg Stone Country and a gay man om the South.