Tolerance and Tennessee: When a Group of Tennessee Kids Honored the Holocaust Dead, They Honored Gay Victims Too. Will They Change Hearts and Minds in Their Own State?
Vilanch, Bruce, The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Probably the gayest thing to come out of Tennessee is Dolly Parton. This may be saying a lot, I especially when you consider this is the state that gave us Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley, the pampered ducks of the Peabody, Minnie Pearl, Cybill Shepherd, Tipper Gore's makeover, the atom bomb, and Opryland, but Dolly, who believes that if she'd been born a man she would have become a drag queen, pretty much takes the gay cake. Even when she was a simple country girl singing and playing guitar with Porter Wagoner, she looked vaguely like a Fire Island houseboy with a stuffed bra. Porter Wagoner looked like the man from out of town who was keeping her. Years later Dolly can still sit oustage …
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Article title: Tolerance and Tennessee: When a Group of Tennessee Kids Honored the Holocaust Dead, They Honored Gay Victims Too. Will They Change Hearts and Minds in Their Own State?.
Contributors: Vilanch, Bruce - Author.
Magazine title: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine).
Publication date: May 24, 2005.
Page number: 72.
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