"As I Walked Out on the Streets of the Castro" features three short plays on the theme of "Southern Pride" which reclaim that phrase, and honor the LGBTQIA+ legacy of country music. In "Worse Things Happen at Sea," following a horrific act of violence, a young Appalachian man comes out to his father. "Tie My Heart to the Hitchin' Post (So It Don't Runaway with You)" finds a country music star opening the first Lesbian bar in Nashville, and a group of LGBTQ+ Country songwriters reckon with the genre's history in "A Radical History of Missing Pronouns, Double-Entendres, and Novelty Songs."