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Country music has more than its share of talented queer stars!<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
The country music genre is having a moment. <\/p>\n
After the wife of country singer Jason Aldean made an ignorant post thanking her parents for not “forcing her” to be trans when she was a tomboy<\/a>, other singers, like Maren Morris<\/a>, clapped back, saying there’s no room for homophobia and transphobia in country music and that those clinging onto it need to change or get out of the way.<\/p>\n “I hate feeling like I need to be the hall monitor of treating people like human beings in country music. It’s exhausting,” Morris said of her message to Aldean<\/a>. “But there’s a very insidious culture of people feeling very comfortable being transphobic and homophobic and racist, and that they can wrap it in a joke and no one will ever call them out for it. It just becomes normal for people to behave like that.”<\/p>\n But Morris isn’t alone<\/a>. In fact, there are plenty of LGBTQ<\/a>+ country singers and artists out there who aren’t only opening doors and breaking barriers, but also putting out some of the best country music today. <\/p>\n Keep scrolling to check out 29 country singers from the LGBTQ+ community!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Maren Morris<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n\n