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Willie Nelson wanted to get “gay married” with Orville Peck in new video

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Orville Peck has revealed that his collaboration with Willie Nelson, ‘Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other’, was the country music legend’s idea. Originally written by Latin country musician Ned Sublette in 1981, the satirical, tongue-in-cheek track explores the secret queer history of cowboys. Known as the “famous gay cowboy song”, Nelson released a cover in 2006 following the success of Brokeback Mountain (2005) – his version made history as the first mainstream LGBTQIA+ country song by a major artist. Peck recently told GLAAD that Nelson asked him to collaborate on…

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Maren Morris: Here’s why the LGBTQ+ advocate is leaving country music

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Maren Morris has announced her departure from the country music industry.  On 15 September, the passionate LGBTQIA+ ally released a two-track EP with lyrics that confirmed she no longer gives a “damn” (‘Get The Hell Out of Here’) and is “done filling a cup with a hole in the bottom” (‘The Tree’). In a statement accompanying its release, Morris said the songs are “incredibly key to my next step because they express a very righteously angry and liberating phase of my life these last couple of years, but also how…

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Drag Race stars perform with Kelsea Ballerini at the 2023 CMT Music Awards

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Kelsea Ballerini featured four Drag Race stars during her LGBTQ+ inclusive CMT Music Awards performance.  On 2 April, country music’s biggest stars congregated at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, for the highly anticipated award show – which Kane Brown and Ballerini hosted.  While the CMT Awards was full of showstopping performances and landmark wins, the event also featured a surprise appearance from Drag Race’s Olivia Lux, Kennedy Davenport, Manila Luzon and Jan Sport. The foursome’s iconic appearance occurred during Ballerini’s 60s-inspired performance of her hit track, If You Go…

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Maren Morris apologises for country music’s homophobia during Drag Race Untucked

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Maren Morris apologised to the queens during Drag Race: Untucked for country music’s treatment of the LGBTQ+ community.   On the third episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 15, the young talent served as a guest judge alongside RuPaul, Michelle Visage and Ts Madison.  For their third maxi-challenge, the queens were tasked with selling their vision of the afterlife – aka “The Queer After – by creating their own infomercials. After watching their heavenly infomercials and presenting their “Metallica” ensembles on the main stage, the 15 contestants headed backstage to relax…

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Country star T.J. Osborne kisses his boyfriend at the 2021 CMA awards

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TJ Osborne made LGBTQ+ history this week after he kissed his boyfriend at the Country Music Awards (CMA’s). On Wednesday (10 November), the openly gay country star and his brother John took home the coveted prize for Best Vocal Duo. Before heading to the stage to accept his award, T.J. celebrated his win by kissing his boyfriend Abi Ventura. The beautiful moment between the two was televised which is a first for the long-running award show. Once on stage T.J. opened up about his life-changing year, stating: “It’s been a…

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