This week, Vivian Asimos and Aled Thomas delve into country singer Orville Peck. We talk about the different types of country music, and how hiding your identity can also be a way of being authentic about your identity. We talk about the performance of music and the comfort of the LGBT+ community. We also talk about mythology, and the creation of a cowboy mythology, and the shifting of this typically hetero-white mythology to support a marginalised community.

For the image of the gay cowboys Vivian mentioned, the still was from the beginning of Hope to Die, pictured here.
The image it is referencing is “Longhorns Dance” by Jim French, pictured here.

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