On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, stuart wrote:
I find this quite hard to believe. In fact it seems from my vantage point to
be quite the opposite, in terms of having family, friends, co-workers or
whomever who are gay than having such in interacial relationships. I wonder
what this very average
Howdy,
Here's an interesting exercise... input the words "Gay" and "country music"
in a web search engine. The results will take you on a fairly diverse trip.
Almost none of it useful, but here's some stuff worth at least a reasonable
P2 mention:
Gay/Lesbian American Music Awards (GLAMA)
This reminds me that I wanted to offer a brief observation concerning Carl
Wilson's post on the subject from last week, in which he referred to a
survey of attitudes toward homosexuality. I don't doubt that the
respondents he described as suburban/female (I don't, alas, have the
original post
Just a correction of the record here, Jon. I didn't argue that the
views in the survey and intreviews were a step backward from anything.
(And I also didn't say suburban/female - I said average middle-class -
which was the focus of the survey and the related book (whose
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not that I believe in polls exactly, but there was an interesting
survey showing last year showing that homophobia truly is the last
bastion of open intolerance in America. The authors did in-depth
interviews with hundreds of very average
[Matt Benz] I have a hard time swallowing the theory that country music
rejected Lang cos she campaigned -briefly, we're talking one ad campaign
here- against eating beef. I know there was a uproar among the beef
industry, but if a music scene turned on her based on that, well, then
who needs
Jon J wrote about cueers in quountry music:
A lot of the old taboos have fallen in the last ten years or so, but
that's still the Big One. The eventual emergence of the first openly
gay country music star is going to be one of the more fascinating
milestones in
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Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 7:27 AM
Subject: k.d. lang (was Re: Heather Myles Injustice)
...k.d. lang who does have a superior voice
and who did put out a really good album
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
did Nashville actually abandon Lang? I mean,
was she dropped, was her budget slashed, did radio or the club promoters turn
against her? I don't know, and would really like to know why she moved away
and into pop if it was for some reason other
Will Miner wrote:
Sorry to chime in late here, but I recall an interview around the time of
"Ingenue" in which she simply claimed that "I lost my passion for
country." The Patsy Cline fixation was over. Maybe because of all of the
hullaballoo over eatings cows, but she sure brought that
Dan Bentele writes:
Well, you probably said a number of things that folks will be
interested
in, Tera g, but I am curious about the above, mainly because I
honestly
don't know or can't remember; did Nashville actually abandon Lang? I
mean, was she dropped, was her budget slashed, did radio
New Hampshire Jon says:
As I remember it, there had been some rumors about her sexuality
here and there before she came out, but I don't think that was what
caused Nashville to turn its back on her. I really don't recall the fact
that she was a lesbian as being a huge surprise to
I'd think that Lang left off trying to make it in the country music field
because she didn't have much success in it, and while coming out might have
been the last nail in the coffin, her no-meat stance (- indicates public
aspect, not just private taste) *was* poorly received, and it *did* come a
There are several lesbians in country music who have done quite well.
Oh really? By all means, name even one successful *openly*
gay country artist, male or female.
Yeah, this baffled me, too. Who (short of spreading
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Jon Weisberger wrote:
Ty Herndon seems to have overcome the, er, questions raised about his
sexuality (not just male/female orientation) by his solicitation arrest of a
couple of years ago.
Yes, but did he then come out and say "okay folks, cat's out of
the bag,
In a message dated 2/5/99 10:22:37 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Oh for christ sake...the fact that K.D. made her anti-meat
sentiments loudly known had a lot less to do with her lack of success in
the country market than the fact that she didn't look/act the way
succesful
Lianne:
(Frankly, I don't believe that soliciting homosexual sex for drugs is quite
the same thing as being a homosexual...)
Let's see Nah, I'm not gonna go there g.
--junior
In a message dated 2/5/99 12:10:09 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Frankly, I don't believe that soliciting homosexual sex for drugs is quite
the same thing as being a homosexual...)
According to the report, Herndon had a baggie of crystal meth that he offered
to share
At 01:16 PM 2/5/99 EST, Slim wrote:
In a message dated 2/5/99 12:10:09 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Frankly, I don't believe that soliciting homosexual sex for drugs is quite
the same thing as being a homosexual...)
According to the report, Herndon had a baggie of
One last thing about Ms. Lang, and then I'll leave the topic
alone. Not like's it's never been discussed here g.
To clarify: although k.d.'s sexual orientation probably wasn't the
only factor that aliented potential fans and kept her off the radio
(another being she was,
I like k.d. lang.
I also like the nasty quote attributed to her fiddle player, Ben Mink,
who said something like "going to Nashville was like walking in on some
big old inbred family who'd just hit the lottery."
--
Geff King * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www2.ari.net/gking/
"Don't let me
Jon Weisberger wrote:
New Hampshire Jon says:
As I remember it, there had been some rumors about her sexuality
here and there before she came out, but I don't think that was what
caused Nashville to turn its back on her. I really don't recall the fact
that she was a lesbian as
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