A Queer Folk Music Revival
LGBTQ+ singer-songwriters and followers found inspiration at gathering after the Folk Alliance International conference, writes Alan Richard
Joy Clark
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!
Reader's Choice: The Best Queer Country of 2024
Rainbow Rodeo readers pick their favorite queer country albums of the 2024.
Rainbow Ruckus 9/17: Joy Clark, Whitney Fenimore, Kelsey Montanez
Every week, Rainbow Rodeo brings you the best new queer country music! Listen to this playlist on Spotify! Thanks to Elliott for making a parallel list on Apple Music! Listen to the parallel list on Tidal. Missed a week? TA Inskeep is generously keeping an archive of all music featured
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
Rainbow Ruckus 10/10: Joy Clark, Rett Madison, and Izzy Heltai!
Every week, Rainbow Rodeo brings you the best new queer country music! Listen to this playlist on Spotify! Thanks to Elliott for making a parallel list on Apple Music! Listen to the parallel list on Tidal. Missed a week? Thomas Inskeep is generously keeping an archive of all music featured
Queer Country at Americanafest 2023
Americana has been more or less defined as country and roots music’s island of misfit toys — including queer country artists. But in the past decade, as I wrote for The Boot, Americana the genre has become a commercial juggernaut, thanks in no small part to the Americana Music Association.