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A Quantum Conversation With LAVENDER COUNTRY
Lavender Country made history in 1973 by releasing what has been widely acknowledged as the world’s first openly gay country music album. The record’s raw and communal energy are driven by songwriter, queer icon, and self- confessed Trotskyist revolutionary Patrick Haggerty. The eponymous album delves unflinchingly into the American psyche as seen through the eyes of a 20th Century rural queer (or Sissy as Haggerty frequently refers to himself.) Standard Practice CoCreative talked with Haggerty via video conference for over two hours at the end of December 2020.
At 76, he is experiencing renewed notoriety as an Elder of today’s Queer Country Renaissance. Lavender Country continues to touch hearts and minds with live shows ensconced in a vernacular tradition connecting Depression- era activist folk singers like Aunt Molly Jackson to postwar radical art collectives such as The Cockettes and Gran Fury. After decades of blacklisting by the country music establishment, the Lavender Country album was vindicated in 1999 with inclusion in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Haggerty is funny, wise, humble, and angry, and wants us all to participate in the work and play of collective liberation!
28 pages, color photographs. Laser printed on 28lb semigloss paper.
25% of proceeds will benefit the National Center For Transgender Equality.
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