Gay country used to be an oxymoron. Then Drake Jensen came along. A unique LGBT voice in the genre, the silver daddy of an artist has released a video for "Pancho And Lefty." Check it out after the jump!

Country artists may be known for their conservative fan bases, but our country divas always get love from the gays!

It's great to see them showing the same love right back.

Carrie Underwood has come out in support of marriage equality and we couldn't be more proud to accept her endorsement.

Check out what she had to say after the jump!

Out-lesbian country sensation, Chely Wright (and this month's guest on our Soapbox, both here on the site and in our "Pride" issue of Instinct) visited CBS This Morning for a sit-down with Gayle King.

(Cue the obligatory Gayle and Oprah gay joke. Now that that's out of our systems we can move on because this is serious business!)

Chely touched on her coming-out process, wrenchingly detailed in her new documentary, Wish Me Away, as well as her guilt over the "cruelty" of dating men (including country superstar Brad Paisley) in order to remain closeted, and the country music industry "freeze-out" that she's had to deal with since showing the world her authentic self.

Watch after the jump!

Sure he may look like an 80s-era gay porn star, but the country crooner has never had much other relevance in the gay community. Until now. He may not be marching at a Pride parade anytime soon, but Keith has inched toward relevancy to the GLBT with supportive statements about the gay community. See what he had to say after the jump.

What got into this soulful Brit? Apparently Nashville! Details after the jump?

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Following an intervention by GLAAD, Blake took to Twitter again and tried to clarify his original tweets from earlier in the day:

@glaad hey I want my fans and @nbcthevoice fans to know that anti-gay and lesbian violence is unacceptable!!!!! Help me!!!! And DM me...

Gay men don't find much representation in mainstream country music, but oddly enough, Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles might change that. So just how much does the country superstar love her gays?

Sure, the only time the word "country" appears in any of our gazillion social profiles it's before "boy" in the "who we want to meet" section and never found in our musical interests. Despite technological advancements, country music, like halogen lighting, provokes an allergic reaction thanks to our gay genetics.

But country has become more palatable lately, with the most recent surprising draw to the genre none other than Gwyneth Paltrow. Regardless of how you feel about Madge's bestie, she took time out of her intense Pilates/macrobiotic dieting schedule to perform on the Country Music Awards on Wednesday night, and despite a few jittery brushes with butterflies (not the Mariah Carey kind), Gwyneth pulled off a remarkable performance --...