Kacey Musgraves. Photo: Brad Barket/Getty Images for The New Yorker Shout it from your cattle ranch in the Cheyenne suburbs or your balcony overlooking the Hudson: Kacey Musgraves is a gay icon, y’all! And the world needs to know! (The world also needs to know about Golden Hour , the best country album of the year. Don’t fight us on that.) Such a topic was brought up at Musgraves’ New Yorker Festival event on Friday evening, when an audience member asked the songstress how it felt to be an icon within the LGBTQ community — a rare crowning for a country music artist to achieve. While Musgraves said she was honored to be receive such high praise, it spurred a few musings about a more significant topic: the genre’s horrible track record when it comes to inclusivity. “What I think it is — someone told me this recently and it broke my heart — they said, I’ve grown up loving country music and I grew up gay in a small town, and country music has always felt like a big party … [Read more...] about Kacey Musgraves, Noted Gay Icon, Is ‘Pissed’ Country Music Isn’t More LGBTQ-Friendly