'The Lavender Cowboy' - the first queer country song?

Almost a century before Lil Nas X caused a stir at parts of the country music community with his song 'Old Town Road', author 'Harold Hersey' wrote 'The Lavender Cowboy', a song about a cowboy with only two hairs on his chest that saves the girl and gets the honor of being buried in the prairie with cacti commemorating his passing. Country Queer explores the life story of that song.