The queer country renegade lowers the mask
at that year’s ACL Festival. This year, the returning artist moves to a later start time with two more albums under his belt – including August duets record, featuring greats like Willie Nelson, Elton John, and Kylie Minogue – and bookends his festival with two additional Austin shows, Oct. 9 at Party for the Parks and Oct. 12 at Stubb’s. His mask, in line with his newfound confidence, hangs a lot shorter now.I’ve always wanted to do a duet album.
Those things make us feel like we haven’t made any progress. But I remember when I was a kid, I was always out and openly gay, and other than Elton John and Freddie Mercury, I didn’t really have any kind of queer artists to look up to as role models, or anything that I could aspire to. There was basically no representation of queer people in media. We weren’t really represented in films unless it was part of tragedy or extreme comedy. And so to now, I think ...
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