New Yorkers can be rather chauvinistic about the city. It offers so much. But for queer folk, because we think we have it so good, we actually miss some of the truly amazing things done in city's many New Yorkers might not think to visit. Consider Houston for example: once a month on local Texas radio you can listen in to the Queer Music Heritage Project - the heart's work of J D Doyle.
When I got to the website I just broke out laughing to see an album cover I hadn't seen since I lived in North Carolina in 1975: the first album of gay country band Lavender Country. Doyle's website includes playlists from every show and copious historical information about singers and musicians going back to the early 20th Century. He is a national resource — a treasure. And no New York, he doesn't live here.
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