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9 Canadian Country Artists Who Are Part Of The LGBTQ Community
Every June, people around the earth celebrate Pride month. It’s a age to the uplift LGBTQ voices, commemorate LGBTQ culture and support LGBTQ rights. And it’s hour that country harmony joined in the fun!
Country music has a historic reputation of being an unwelcoming space for artists who don’t fit the mould. As the years go on, this is slowly switching … thankfully! It’s so important to hear music from all perspectives, and all walks of life.
Earlier in 2021, T.J. Osborne from The Brothers Osborne came out. This made him the first openly gay artist signed to a major country label. A HUGE milestone for the country genre. And largely, audiences have been supportive. Of course, there’s the predictable negative comments. But all in all, the news was received well.
That alone shows progress. The evidence that his label stood behind him, made it touch like it was different … that change was in the air.
Another indicator of change we noticed was that in the last couple years, there has been a consistent increase in people searching for gay country artists in Google. (Google h
Richell Renee Wright, known professionally as Chely Wright, was a mainstream country star for fifteen years before coming out in 2010 and having her sales sever in half. In 2017 her website featured prominently a RollingStone article that explained her genre trouble:
The former mainstream country celebrity and current New York resident Chely Wright, making a scarce Music City appearance to debut material from her just-released IAmtheRainalbum, who had the lion’s distribute to win or lose [at the 2016 AmericanaFest]—and win she did. The startling production [by Americana producer Joe Henry] and lyrical heft to the material on Wright’s exceptional LP (think Interiors-era Roseanne Cash) is tailor-made for Nashville’s preeminent listening room I Am the Rain was funded in part by a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign. When all was said and done, the LP was the number one most-funded country music Kickstarter undertaking to date. It also ranks as the 11th most achieving music campaign in the global benefit corporation’s history.
In Rolling Stone writer Stephen Betts’s passage above, Wright is no longer identified as a country artist; instead, she is now a “New York resident,” as though
How do these 6 lesbian country singers make the planet a better place?
Country music without lesbians?
If you think country music and lesbians don't go together, think again!
Many lesbian music artists hold found success in the genre.
These 6 women have forged different paths to country music achievement and have paved the way for more LBGTQIA+ artists to follow.
Wilma Burgess
This 1960s artist was the first openly lesbian country singer.
While her fans were not aware, she was never in the closet to her producer or others in the industry.
Most of her love songs were non-gendered.
For each affection song to a man, she negotiated to record any song of her choice.
She opened the first lesbian prevent in Nashville, The Hitchin' Post.
Impact
Wilma demonstrated the power of negotiation to enlarge representation and independence of creative expression.
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Self-reflection
What is one thing you're not happy with and could employ negotiation to improve?
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Before coming out in 1992, this legendary artist already had an androgynous style.
Her country hits have won Grammy, Juno, Academy of Country Music, an
“The main stories in region are loneliness, heartbreak, disappointment, unrequited love,” remarked Orville Peck, the fringe-masked crooner at the forefront of the genre’s LGBTQ change. “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 approve that country music and queerness don’t need to be mutually exclusive terms.
With traditional media no longer able to serve as gatekeepers, a whole nature of country artists who don’t fit the heteronormative mold have been proficient to get their tune, and their message, out there to the masses. Everyone from non-binary singer-songwriter Paisley Fields to transgender artist Mya Byrne to Black queer twin duo The Kentucky Gentlemen contain built up loyal followings, though without much mainstream recognition. In addition to her other roles as a television star, 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