US LGBTQ community mourns ‘diva’ Dolly Parton
Brigitte Bandit, a 34-year-old drag queen in Austin, Texas, who wished to be identified only by her stage name, took a children’s book about Parton to the Texas state capitol, where she testified against the bill.
At a Washington gay bar, Cameron Austin donned a country-western outfit replete with cowboy boots as he sat in the corner sipping a drink while Dolly Parton’s “When I’m Gone” blasted through the sound system.“I didn’t grow up listening to a lot of the gay icons that we typically think of, but she’s the one that’s been with me from the very start,” the 28-year-old East Tennessee native said at a party honouring the country superstar on Tuesday night.
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