Queerguru’s Music Editor Allison Ananis likes nothing more than shaking us all up in the office with her music choices   (thank God she’s finally finished her HardCore Hip Hop  phase).  So, after we wrote about Orville Peck who positions himself as the Banksy of queer music and looks like a fringed Lone Ranger, had teamed up with Willie Nelson to make his latest record “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other” she had us hooked.  On Cowboys.  The gay singing kind.

What we never knew was how many there are out there : great voices, great looks and unabashedly queer.  Here’s a few favorites that Allison lassoed and corralled for us : 

 

 

Although Dixon Dallas not only looks the part and there is no ambiguity about his lyrics “He’s bouncing off my booty cheeks, I love the way he rides / I can hardly breathe when he’s pumping deep inside,” some people are questioning his sexuality.  We listened, and loved the rest of his album, and we can only tell you that he’s a damn fine actor if he actually bats for the ither side as alleged.

 

 

We really feel in love with the exceptionally talented RUFUS WAINWRIGHT in 2007 when he produced his Grammy-nominated Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall.  His unprecendeted success includes composing two operas and  now he’s actually heading back to NY and Carnegie Hall on his latest Tour with his new album Folkcracy. Our favorite track is HEADING FOR HOME on which he is joined by John Legend, a gay ally in every sense of the word..

 

 

The too-handsome-for-words CORNELIUS VERSA  has been so perfectly described as such  “Cornelius Versa as a provocative troubadour collides time frames and genres with a vocal alchemy that feel like an amalgam of Kenny Chesney, The Righteous Brothers, Roy Orbison, Percy Sledge and George Michael. Your head is spinning now, isn’t it?” -American Pancake

 

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Of course there are gay bear cowboys but  like Freddy Freeman they just don’t waste any time or energy on flowery lyrics, they just say it as it is 

 

 

The final track on Orville Peck s new album  STAMPEDEis a cover of Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy” alongside  three more gay country singers : TJ Osborne, Waylon Payne, and Fancy Hagood.

“You know how you make ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ gayer?… well now you know,” wrote the Brothers Osborne frontman, who came out in 2021, on Instagram. “I am as obsessed as I am honored to be a part of @orvillepeck ‘s latest album ‘Stampede’ alongside the legends that are @fancyhagood @waylonpayne.”

 

 

PS Orville may have been the inspiration for this article, but we think he wouldnt minf if the last piece of music was from a recent colaborator of his , and one of the best country allies the queer community has ever had.  Its Willie Nelson with his unforgettable soul-touching track from Brokeback Mountain