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20 Country Songs That Participate a LGBTQ+ Perspective
From alt-country to folk to dead-center mainstream country music, the genre features an ever-growing list of artists who identify as LGBTQ+ — and incorporate their perspective into their songs.
The presence of country artists who identify as queer is far from a brand-new phenomenon. Songs sung from this perspective arguably meet back to the tardy 1930s, when a band called the Sweet Violet Boys (also known as the Prairie Ramblers) released "I Love My Fruit," one of the earliest instances of a lyric thought to be about being gay. According to the BBC, a 1960s country artist named Wilma Burgess is believed to be the genre's first openly gay star, charting 15 hits on the Billboard Country & Western charts between 1965 and 1975. In the late '70s, she left the melody industry and opened up Nashville's first lesbian lock, the Hitching Post.
Lavender State, led by its frontman Patrick Haggerty, is one of the best-known pioneers of LGBTQ+ country, and Haggerty remained a ardent anti-racism and gay rights activist until his death in 2022. His music continues to be a groundbreaking oblige fo
Here Are Gay Land Singers Who Stood Out Loud and Proud
Country music has a lengthy and not-so-proud reputation for being intensely homophobic. Gay country singers were, sadly, not warmly welcomed.
Singing homosexual love songs was even enough to end careers. For instance, Patrick Haggerty, whose band called Lavender Country, released what is widely believed to be the first explicitly gay record in 1973, ultimately foremost the band to fade into obscurity. Even artists coming out many years later, like Chely Wright, said their careers stalled after making their sexuality known to the public.
However, the land music scene has become much more inclusive over the last decade. It’s wonderfully making a quiet shift toward greater diversity and acceptance of gay artists.
From gay nation stars singing odes about loving who you want to country artists encouraging listeners not to be afraid to embrace their gender identity, the genre – both its artists and its fans – has finally reached a place where acceptance is the unused standard.
So, today, let’s take a glance at some of the most acknowledged gay country singers – from Grammy Award-winning stars Brandi Carlile and
“The main stories in country are loneliness, heartbreak, disappointment, unrequited love,” remarked Orville Peck, the fringe-masked crooner at the forefront of the genre’s LGBTQ shift. “I think that those are things that are felt by almost every queer person at some point in their lives, and sometimes for a long part of our lives.” However, it’s only in the streaming age that the Nashville scene has started to accept that territory music and queerness don’t demand to be mutually exclusive terms.
With traditional media no longer competent to serve as gatekeepers, a whole world of country artists who don’t fit the heteronormative mold have been able to get their music, and their message, out there to the masses. Everyone from non-binary singer-songwriter Paisley Fields to trans designer Mya Byrne to Black gay twin duo The Kentucky Gentlemen have built up loyal followings, though without much mainstream recognition. In addition to her other roles as a television actor, makeup company owner, bar and motel proprietor, DJ, podcaster, and YouTube sensation, Trixie Mattel has become the most successful musical alum from the Emmy award-winning RuPaul’s Drag Race with over a quarter
Chappell Roan says there's "a lot of gay country artists" who won't approach out due to stigma
18 March 2025, 12:43
By Sam Prance
As it stands, there's only one out lgbtq+ country artist signed to a major country music label.
Chappell Roan has spoken out about same-sex attracted country artists and why so many of them will never come out in the industry.
Last week (Mar 14), Chappell made her first official foray into country harmony. Her song 'The Giver' is a lesbian country anthem that she worked on with Nashville musicians. Discussing the song with Amazon Music, Chappell said: "I can’t name myself the midwest princess and not acknowledge country melody. My heart wanted to write a country song."
Now, Chappell has opened up about the state scene and how there are "a lot of same-sex attracted country artists" in the closet.
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Speaking to Apple Harmony, Chappell pointed out that there are lots of gay people in nation music. She said: "Even if it's not the designer that's gay singing, those backup singers, those girls o