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"Family" — Gay Relatives on a Country Album
1991
1991's "Family" — gay relatives written directly into a country album
Photo credit“But not a one is turned away when it's family.”
On Eagle When She Flies (1991), the song "Family" included a line that was radical for country radio in its era: "Some are preachers, some are gay, some are addicts, drunks and strays. But not a one is turned away when it's family." In the early 1990s — when "family values" rhetoric was often weaponized against queer people — putting those words on a major country album was an act of quiet courage.
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