People on here say shit like “I’m gay so I don’t listen to country” like Dolly Parton hasn’t historically had an enormous influence on the gay community and especially for drag artists, and like Johnny Cash wasn’t a historically a huge influence on butch lesbian style and attitude. Your bad taste is not universal.
Just saying,
Also lets name off some gay country stars:
Brandie Carlile:
Lil Nas X:
Orville Peck:
K.D. Lang:
Chely Wright:
Feel free to add more
Some of these straddle the line of folk and country but imo sth being labeled as folk vs country is sometimes v biased (like lgb women are Known for folk in a lot of ways but so many of them would be considered country if country stations actually Played them imo)
Thao and Mirah
Loamlands
Evil
Paisley Fields
Who could forget Lavender Country
And Patrick Haggertys new album
Mya Byrne
Karen and the Sorrows
Hurray for the riff raff
Ryan Cassata
Pt 2 (i hit an audio limit)
Sam Gleaves
Mercy Bell
Dane Terry
Eli Conley
Little Bandit
Justin Hiltner
Alabama Shakes has Brittany Howard in it and she’s queer (though i guess its classified as southern rock and not country)
(he has two versions of that song btw. He orginally recorded it with female pronouns and later released it with male pronouns after he came out) I’m pretty sure Herdon is the person who started the annual concert for love and acceptance.
Shane McNally also deserves to be on this list. He isn’t a singer but he is a song writer.
Kacey Musgraves (I think McNally wrote or cowrote this one?)
