Country Music Feels Bi with Lydia von Hof
Yeehaw, bi babes! This week we're two-stepping into country music, a genre that is somehow both associated with heteronormativity and feels *very* queer-coded, and we're joined by bi musician Lydia von Hof to help us unpack this one.
We dig into country music's iconography and its homosocial roots, the genre's predisposition toward yearning, and why The Chicks became sapphic icons after Nashville tried to bury them, discussing the tension between the queer community's reclamation of the genre, in contrast with certain country musicians who have spread harmful rhetoric. Lydia shares her own…
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