What seems to make people more receptive or less receptive to songs about lesbians?
I think people in general experience music in terms of their own sexuality. So just like I can process a song by a man about a woman for myself, so can straight folks process songs and relate to them. It’s all love or sex or whatever, but it’s human commonality. Now I know that homophobia makes it more difficult for gay men. Straight men are too uptight most of the time to admit that they can relate to an openly gay man’s experience. But I perform the same songs wherever I play and people deal and show love no matter if they are straight or gay. As far as radio…well these days DJs don’t play what they like. They have play lists to work from. The only play I know I’ve gotten is from women’s shows, queer shows and an appearance with my dad’s band on A Prairie Home Companion which has turned out to be the schmanciest thing I have ever done. I’d never heard the show before, but lesbians all over the country sent me emails and left messages about that gig… In the 1980s and 1990s, to wha
