I agree "statements like that" show the need. Jeez, guys. GLBT couples have the same emotions as anybody else.

But I am not sure "genre" is the correct place to make this distinction.

Awards and other recognition to writers or performers in various categories is a fine idea; no point in having pop vocalists competing against opera singers. But I think we need to separate the classifications of "musical genre" from "what the lyrics are about". These are unrelated to each other and any classiciation system that tries to combine them will break down in complexity.

Dolly Parton writes her own stuff. So we put her in "singer/songwriter"? I don't think so.

I wrote a decidedly country tune to go with lyrics in support of gay marriage. What "genre" is that? If I change the style to Blues did I change the genre?

If "genre" means a combination of "musical style" with "lyrical subject" then you get so many tiny sliced categories it starts to look like the Emmy awards. If we identify say two dozen musical styles, and one dozen subject categories, we end up with 24 times 12 = 288 "genres". Throw in a half dozen categories of "who performed it" and you have 1728 genres. How is such a classification system useful to anybody other than to invent so many categories that more people can say they won something?