Rainbow Ruckus 3/18: Paisley Fields, Andrew Sa, Jessye DeSilva, and More!
This week's Rainbow Ruckus features club kids, touching tributes, joyful gender exploration, the wrong end of a love triangle, and butch dykes playing the Opry.
Andrew Sa
Lavender Prairie Creates Queer Country Paradise in Chicago
Chicago is the birthplace of country music as we know it today, so it’s only fitting that it will host the first (to my knowledge) three-day festival of queer country music on September 13 – 15. Organizers Alexis Stein, of Chicago’s The Queer Social Club and Swappin’ Boots queer
Rainbow Roundup: A Feeling I Belonged
Read the full essay on the weekly Rainbow Rodeo newsletter — and get artist resources, events, and queer country news from around the web in your inbox!
Before anything else, I want to give a huge thank you to Jeremy Leroux of Country Everywhere for patiently helping me tweak some backend
INTERVIEW: Andrew Sa Plumbs the Depths of "Dark Phoenix"
Chicago cowboy crooner Andrew Sa changed lanes from folk to country after opening for Lavender Country in 2017. When meeting the late Patrick Haggerty, who released the first known gay-themed album in country music history in 1973, Sa sought to write a new collection of songs from the new perspective
Rainbow Roundup -- 5/5
Happy Cinco de Mayo to all who observe! (Just a fun reminder that this is purely an American holiday used to sell tacos and tequila. Mexican Independence Day is September 16.)
Another thing you can celebrate with tacos and tequila is the first full week of Rainbow Rodeo! I’ve