Queer country artists are telling familiar stories -- first love, heartbreak and learning to heal -- from perspectives that were once shut out, changing narrow ideas of what country music can be and who gets to perform it.
Roy Orbison had his signature specs, Johnny Cash his all-black suits and Dolly Parton her massive blonde mane .
Orville Peck's got a fringed mask that obscures most of his face and a cowboy hat with an upturned brim. You'll never see him without them, just like Dolly would never let you catch her without a full face of makeup.Maybe you've heard or seen of Peck, a country star on the rise -- one of his songs just appeared in HBO's "Euphoria," and last year he appeared in ads for Beyoncé's Ivy Park collection.
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