On Thursday night, one of the off-campus AmericanaFest offerings is “Queer Roots,” a new showcase organized with the goal of celebrating the diversity of sexual and gender identities represented ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In 1973, amid the growing gay rights movement, a band called Lavender Country recorded a country music ...

1973 saw the release of Lavender Country, the first gay country album. The album was produced by Seattle-based Patrick Haggerty, a gay man who describes himself as a die-hard fan of country music, and ...

"Let me sing you the songs you are longing to hear," Patrick Haggerty offered fondly during his waltz-time ballad "All Disillusions Behind" on Lavender Country's second album Blackberry Rose. He was ...

Patrick Haggerty, the leader of the pioneering queer country-folk musical project Lavender Country, died Monday from complications related to a stroke he had suffered in September. Haggerty’s manager ...

The openly gay frontman had recently reassembled the ahead-of-their-time '70s outfit to release the well-received 'Blackberry Rose' album. By Andrew Unterberger Patrick Haggerty, the frontman for ...

In 1973, Patrick Haggerty sat down to write a song about how pissed off he was with heterosexual men. “I wanted to write a song about straight white male supremacy and how f***ed up it is,” recalls ...

Local lore says DJ Shan Ottley, a lesbian DJ in Seattle, was fired for playing the Seattle-originated queer country band Lavender Country’s infamous single, “Cryin’ These Cocksucking Tears,” on her ...

Decades before the likes of Brandi Carlile, Orville Peck and Trixie Mattel worked to raise the visibility of LGBTQ artists in the roots, folk and Americana music scenes, Patrick Haggerty gave the ...