http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/7324/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/will-closed-minded-country-music-let-lesbian-chely-wright <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Times&#039; music writer Jon Caramanica also details the 2003 battle between the vulgarly anti-war Dixie Chick Natalie Maines and &quot;reliable jingoist&quot; Toby Keith. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>On the Thursday Arts page, music writer Jon Caramanica profiled a trio of country music's prodigal daughters, focusing first on relatively obscure country singer Chely Wright, who is raising the publicity profile for her comeback album by coming out as a lesbian. <br /><br />The headline frames the country music community as reactionary and intolerant, an idea not supported by anything in Caramanica's text: "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/arts/music/06country.html?scp=1&amp;sq=chely+wright&amp;st=nyt">A Singer Comes Out; Now Will Nashville Let Her Back In?</a>"<br /><br /></p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/will-closed-minded-country-music-let-lesbian-chely-wright" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch ChelyWright CountryMusic DixieChicks GayRights JonCaramanica liberalmediabias NewYorkTimes NewYorkTimesbias TimesWatch TobyKeith Thu, 06 May 2010 18:41:00 +0000 admin 7557 at http://archive2.mrc.org