Dolly Parton on How She's Helped Her Gay Fay Members

Contents:

• DOLLY PARTON ON HOW SHE'S HELPED HER GAY FAY MEMBERS COME OUT: 'YOU DON'T NEED TO LIVE YOUR LIFE DARKNS'
• DOLLY PARTON BSH OFF RUMORS ABOUT HER SEXUALY AGA: 'I'M NOT GAY'
• DOLLY PARTON RPONDS TO YEARS OF SEXUALY MOURS: ‘I’M NOT GAY’

DOLLY PARTON ON HOW SHE'S HELPED HER GAY FAY MEMBERS COME OUT: 'YOU DON'T NEED TO LIVE YOUR LIFE DARKNS'

Dolly knows the folly of antigay judgment. " Though the lyrics wouldn't que f 2018, they were very progrsive back then: "Some are preachers / some are gay / some are addicts, dnks and strays / But not a one is turned away when 's fay.

DOLLY PARTON BSH OFF RUMORS ABOUT HER SEXUALY AGA: 'I'M NOT GAY'

Dolly rpond swiftly to the cint and the ntroversy that followed: "I am tly sorry for the hurt or embarrassment regardg the gay and lbian t-shirt cint at Dollywood's Splash Country recently. Everyone knows of my personal support of the gay and lbian muny. A revealg 2016 terview wh The New York Tim featured Dolly once aga speakg warmly of her gay fanbase ("I have a huge gay followg, and I'm proud of them.

Dolly Parton on How She's Helped Her Gay Fay Members Come Out: 'You Don't Need to Live Your Life Darkns'. "Most of the gays I know jt want to make the world a more betiful place like I do, " Parton said the terview. Growg up the Great Smoky Mountas of Tennsee, Parton said her first troductn to the gay muny was unknowgly through her fay.

“In my early days we did not know [what gay was]. “Later on, I did fd out I have many gays and lbians my own fay. “I have a huge gay and lbian followg and I’m proud of ’em, I love ’em and I thk everybody should be themselv and be allowed to be themselv whoever they are, whatever they are, ” she said.

DOLLY PARTON RPONDS TO YEARS OF SEXUALY MOURS: ‘I’M NOT GAY’

“I certaly know that the gay people I know are the most sensive and most rg of all. Most of the gays I know jt want to make the world a more betiful place like I do.

She has also lled out Christians for judgg gay people, sayg: “If you’re gay, you’re gay. Parton’s outspoken support for the LGBTQ+ muny n first be seen way back 1991 on the album Eagle When She Fli, which featur the song Fay, wh s lyrics: “Some are preachers, some are gay, some are addicts, dnks and strays.

I’m not gay but I have so many gay iends and I accept everybody for who they are, ” Parton, 73, told the U. As for her tle as a gay in, Parton embrac the role, tellg the outlet: “I love that.