These carry associations with being less educated, having poor manners and holding low standards of morality (sexually or otherwise) as members of the working class (Another side-eye to the Victorian era). As for country music listeners and performers there is the association with being working class and historically the ‘hillbilly’ or ‘ redneck’ label. For LGBTQ+ people, veering away from Victorian era gender roles and experiencing love in ways that this general public couldn’t imagine for themselves, is their social deviation. They even share a common enemy in the status quo, having both been denigrated by a class system that favors the white middle class. No matter the format for pushing information, the two groups are routinely painted as on opposite sides of a sociopolitical fence.īut even with implied and orchestrated division amongst demographics like LGBTQ+ people and country music consumers, socialization and sharing of cultures is inevitable in any case and at the heart of both communities is the audacity to live unapologetically true to oneself.
One left leaning, tree hugging, believer in science wrapped in a rainbow and one right leaning, free speaking, traditionalist covered in camo and plaid. When looking at the LGBTQ+ and country music communities, the stereotypical differences are obvious, like two incompatible marketing campaigns.