Tag Archives: country music

Flaming Saddles

Manhattan’s new country/western gay bar. SRSLY.

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Chely Wright Fights NC Marriage Bill

Newly-married and out country music star Chely Wright has joined the fight against North Carolina’s pending constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

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Chely Wright Gets Married

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INDIANA: Prominent Lesbian Among Those Killed At State Fair Stage Collapse

A well-known Chicago area lesbian was among the five people killed yesterday when high winds caused the collapse of the stage at the Indiana state fair. Christina Santiago was the programming manager for the Lesbian Community Care Project at Chicago’s Howard Brown Health Center. An ardent country music fan, Santiago and her partner were near the stage to hear the …

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Dolly Does Want Your Business

“I am truly sorry for the hurt or embarrassment regarding the gay and lesbian t-shirt incident at Dollywood’s Splash Country recently. Everyone knows of my personal support of the gay and lesbian community. Dollywood is a family park and all families are welcome. I am looking further into the incident and hope and believe it was more policy than insensitivity. …

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Tweet Of The Day – Rosanne Cash

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Blake Shelton Takes It Back

GLAAD president Jarrett Barrios: “Following outrage from community members and allies, Blake Shelton took the right step in speaking out against anti-gay violence and sending an important message to his fans and viewers of The Voice.” RELATED: Shelton’s original tweet and GLAAD’s demand for an apology are here.

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Tweet Of The Day – Blake Shelton

Blake Shelton, Country Male Vocalist of the Year and judge on The Voice, will likely be hearing from GLAAD today. UDPATE: GLAAD reacts. This is one of the judges on what’s so far been one of the most gay-friendly reality shows on television. For him to make a joke to his 300-thousand-plus followers about leaving a gay man ‘beaten, bleeding …

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Dolly Loves Her Gay Fans

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Reba McEntire Covers Beyonce

I really like this. Stand by for the remixes. (Via – Buzzfeed)

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Rosanne Cash Tweets John Boehner

Johnny Cash’s daughter is pissed about this stump speech quote from Speaker-Elect John Boehner: “Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.” Ugh. Anyway, Rosanne Cash is still performing and putting out records, …

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Today In Teabagger Music Videos

Remember when country music wasn’t all teabaggery, cloying, tired, faux patriotic cliches? Me either. That’s how long it’s been.

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Today In Crazy Teabaggers

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Sausage King Jimmy Dean Dead At 81

Country music star, Grammy winner, and Christian activist Jimmy Dean, who gained his greatest fame as the advertising pitchman for his own line of sausages, died yesterday at the age of 81. His wife, Donna Meade Dean, said her husband died at their Henrico County, Va., home. She told The Associated Press that he had some health problems but was …

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Chely Wright Talks Gay With Oprah

On Wednesday newly out country music singer Chely Wright told Oprah that only two of her industry colleagues have reached out to her since her revelation. “And they all have my email.” She also expressed shame for having once told a young gay friend to “get his sin out of my face.” Wright said she had to come out because …

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Country Star Chely Wright To Come Out

TMZ has broken the news that the big celebrity coming out scheduled for this week by PR king Howard Bragman is country star Chely Wright, who has a memoir and new album both debuting this Tuesday. I never heard of her until today, but apparently she’s a big deal and has had a lot of hits, including the below, which …

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Court Yard Hounds – Ain’t No Son

Two of the Dixie Chicks have created the sub-group Court Yard Hounds for this song about a son coming out to his father. Lyrics here. Well this ain’t no fun for me/ This ain’t no fun for me/ Oh boys should be boys/ That’s how it should be/ You ain’t coming home/ No you ain’t coming home/ Til you walk …

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Happy Belated, Dolly

I meant to mention Dolly Parton’s 64th birthday on Friday as an excuse to post this, her first appearance on the Porter Wagoner Show in 1967, where she performed her first chart hit, Dumb Blonde. Dolly has scored 59 Top 40 hits on the country chart, including 21 #1’s.

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NC: Country Singer Banned After Anti-Gay Song At City Festival

Pam Spaulding reports that country singer Matt Boswell and his Hillbilly Blues Band have been banned from future performances by the city of Reidsville, North Carolina after a live broadcast from a city festival where he performed an altered version of a Merle Haggard song that included the anti-gay lyric, “And you can’t get married, you stupid gays and queers, …

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The New Redneck Anthem

Cletus and Maybelle Hillbilly of Slack Jaw, West Virginia give us their musical opinion on same-sex marriage. You just have to laugh. Note the Sarah Palin lookalike playing the teacher. Here’s their site. (Warning: autoplay nincompoopery.)

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