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Your Unofficial Queer Country Guide to the 2026 Folk Alliance International Conference

Your Unofficial Queer Country Guide to the 2026 Folk Alliance International Conference

If you're lucky enough to be in New Orleans for Folk Alliance International, you're lucky enough to be surrounded by queer country music! Read our guide of queer country artists to check out this weekend!

Critics' Choice: The Best Queer Country of 2025

Critics' Choice: The Best Queer Country of 2025

The Rainbow Rodeo staff shares their favorite queer country moments of 2025 -- and our top three queer country albums of the year!

The Authenticity Myth of Country Music

The Authenticity Myth of Country Music

Contributor Josh Friedberg dissects the myth of authenticity in country music -- and takes us through a literature review of scholars and journalists hard at work to dispel it.

Crys Matthews - Reclamation

Crys Matthews - Reclamation

Bee Dolores fills us in on Crys Matthews' brave, generous album Reclamation

INTERVIEW: Flamy Grant and Friends Make the Yuletide Gay

INTERVIEW: Flamy Grant and Friends Make the Yuletide Gay

Christian drag queen Flamy Grant cozies up to the fire to tell us about her holiday tour Make the Yuletide Gay

Rainbow Ruckus 11/5: Angie K, Holly Cinnamon, Crys Matthews and More!

Rainbow Ruckus 11/5: Angie K, Holly Cinnamon, Crys Matthews and More!

This week's queer country playlist asks us to hold on to live in the moment because you never know when the opportunity will pass forever.

LISTEN: Crys Matthews is "Waking Up the Dead"

LISTEN: Crys Matthews is "Waking Up the Dead"

Crys Matthews ain’t scared of no ghosts. In fact, she communes with them on her new single “Waking Up the Dead.” Matthews is a consummate political songwriter and spiritual guide, and on her new single — off her upcoming album — Matthews recounts a moment she had in a Quaker cemetery,