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Rainbow Rodeo is a site, zine, and podcast devoted to promoting queer country artists. Edited by @rachelcholst.bsky.social
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VOTE for your favorite queer country album of the year! It's your chance to champion your queer country faves like Olivia Ellen Lloyd, Rachael Sage, Vandoliers, Willi Carlisle and many more!

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January 5, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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VOTE for your favorite queer country album of the year! It's your chance to champion your queer country faves like Adam Mac, Avery Friedman, the Kentucky Gentlemen, Kristen Ford, and many more!

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January 2, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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VOTE for your favorite queer country album of the year! It's your chance to champion your queer country faves like Bells Larsen, Bonnie and the Mere Mortals, Arend Lee Jessurun, Wryn, and more!

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December 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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please vote for CREATURE (which you can do) as a means to finally destroy the binary of country forever (lovingly)
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VOTE for your favorite queer country album of the year! It's your chance to champion your queer country faves like Crys Matthews, Tiberius, Brivele, Bandits on the Run, Autumn Sky Hall, and more!

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December 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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VOTE for your favorite queer country album of the year! It's your chance to champion your queer country faves like Crys Matthews, Tiberius, Brivele, Bandits on the Run, Autumn Sky Hall, and more!

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December 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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VOTE for your favorite queer country album of the year! It's your chance to champion your queer country faves like ZDAN, The Belle Curves, Little Mazarn, Heather Mae, and many more!

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December 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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VOTE for your favorite queer country album of the year! It's your chance to champion your queer country faves like Olivia Ellen Lloyd, Rachael Sage, Vandoliers, Willi Carlisle and many more!

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December 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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VOTE for your favorite queer country album of the year! It's your chance to champion your queer country faves like Adam Mac, Avery Friedman, the Kentucky Gentlemen, Kristen Ford, and many more!

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December 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Before going on hiatus until January 15, editor @rachelcholst.bsky.social highlights this year's trends and triumphs in queer country music -- and what's next for Rainbow Rodeo.

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#QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq
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December 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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ESSAY: Richard Marcus presents Erin Mckeown's take on the holidays for the rest of us: their two anti-holiday albums are anthems for people alienated by Christmas, the values it's come to represent, and less-than-accepting families.

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December 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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ALBUM REVIEW: Maia Sharp excels at airing her doubts and insecurities with such compassion, you'll be able to forgive yourself for your own. On Tomboy, Maia Sharp does this by exploring those in-between spaces: in gender, relationships, life paths.

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December 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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This holiday edition of Rainbow Ruckus features puppy dogs, the gift that keeps on giving, and waltzes filled with yearning.

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@emchy.bsky.social and @rhinestonetomboy.bsky.social

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December 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Last chance!!!

Get your queer country zines, hats, t-shirts and...boot conditioner???

That's right -- it's the Rainbow Rodeo gift guide -- get something awesome for your favorite people!

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December 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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ALBUM REVIEW: The act of creation is exhilarating and terrifying -- and thoroughly explored in @idiotwitchamelia.bsky.social's examination of Susan Stryker's Frankenstein essay, CREATURE.

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December 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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ALBUM REVIEW: On Returning to Myself, Brandi Carlile breaks her heart wide open. @beedelores.bsky.social illustrates how Carlile's deeply personal tracks become universal.

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December 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Get your queer country zines, hats, t-shirts and...boot conditioner???

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December 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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For @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social, I wrote about Lily Rose’s new album, I KNOW WHAT I WANT, which might feel uninspired overall but does contain a few great moments rainbowrodeomag.com/lily-rose-i-...
Lily Rose - I Know What I Want
Lily Rose takes a look back on all her accomplishments with her album I Know What I Want -- which demonstrates Rose's ability to pick high-energy songs as well as some stunners, writes Bee Delores.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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REVIEW: Lily Rose takes a look back on all her accomplishments with her album I Know What I Want -- which demonstrates Rose's ability to pick high-energy songs as well as some stunners, writes @Beedelores.bsky.social

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December 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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#QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq
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December 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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PREMIERE: Big Riverz Gets Us "Running"
PREMIERE: Queer country pop supergroup Big Riverz (Rae Spoon, Sofia Hicks, and Sarah Danger) are back with "Running," a '90s slacker bop about overcoming night terrors and forming true bonds.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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PREMIERE: Queer country pop supergroup @bigriverz.bsky.social (@raespoon.bsky.social, Sofia Hicks, and Sarah Danger) are back with "Running," a '90s slacker bop about overcoming night terrors and forming true bonds.

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December 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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REVIEW: If our editor @rachelcholst.bsky.social liked love songs, she probably wouldn't be in the country music business. But Rachael Sage's album Canopy has melted even her heart, an accomplished embrace of what real, mature love looks like -- on all levels of humanity.

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December 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Get your queer country zines, hats, t-shirts and...boot conditioner???

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December 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Get your queer country zines, hats, t-shirts and...boot conditioner???

That's right -- it's the Rainbow Rodeo gift guide -- get something awesome for your favorite people!

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