'Celebrating Lil Nas X as the first out gay CMA winner is erasure with good intentions, but erasure nonetheless.'
) have not always found success on the airwaves — the primary vehicle for marketshare for a country artist. Music fans that feel outside of the "country bubble" but enjoy the songs themselves gravitate towards someone like Lil Nas X as a gateway to a genre that always felt like a closed door, or a secret passion, one laughed about or stereotyped as "redneck" in coastal cities.
Some fans want to celebrate country music when it feels a bit like resistance, and that's quite reasonable given, or even its current non-embrace of women beyond ceremonial "celebrations" like the CMAs. Kacey Musgraves, Margo Price, Sturgill Simpson, and now Lil Nas X are all understandably beloved not just for their talent, but because they go against the assumption that country music is often nothing more than a pro-NRA, Republican bastion that makes no room for women.
Only covering country music when there's a "resist" narrative, or a subversive singer or a false "first" isn’t productive to the community that now includes Lil Nas X and beyond — it makes it look like country music is more closed off than it should be, so why bother even trying to fit in? And that mindset continues to squeeze out queer voices by discounting those who have worked tirelessly in the past, against extremely difficult odds.
It's also OK, however, to challenge country music, and particularly the white male decision-makers who lord over country radio, to do more to open the genre, to be louder and be more inclusive. Remember, the CMA voters awarded McAnally and Clark a trophy for "Follow Your Arrow." It was country radio who
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