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fightthegoodfightnow

(7,042 posts)
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 12:09 AM Nov 2012

Big Tent News: Dolly Parton Talks Drag Queen Contest and Gay Rumors

Dolly Parton Talks Drag Queen Contest and Gay Rumors
BY ANDREW VILLAGOMEZ in Out Magazine


If she wasn't a woman, she said she'd be a drag queen.

The lovable Dolly spoke with ABC News about her career, how she developed her looks, and explained why she is speaks openly about her plastic surgery, among other things. Also highlighted, Dolly discusses her participation in a celebrity drag queen look-alike contest, which she entered as an over-exaggerated portrayal and subsequently fooled audience members into thinking she was a man in drag. "...I got... in the line and I just walked across, and they just thought I was some little short gay guy, and I got the least applause … I was just dying of laughing inside," she said.

Dolly also discussed gay rumors, which she laughs about with fellow Southern power woman Oprah, who also has her share of gay rumors. "Like Gayle, her friend, Judy, my friend, they just think that you just can't be that close to somebody," Dolly said. "Judy and I have been best friends since we were, like, in the third and fourth grade. I love her as much as anybody in the whole world, but we're not romantically involved."


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http://www.out.com/entertainment/music/2012/11/27/dolly-parton-talks-drag-queen-contest-and-gay-rumors
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Big Tent News: Dolly Parton Talks Drag Queen Contest and Gay Rumors (Original Post) fightthegoodfightnow Nov 2012 OP
She's in the class I call "female drag queens," Warpy Nov 2012 #1
Charo! fightthegoodfightnow Nov 2012 #2
"Cuchi-cuchi" ! PoliticAverse Nov 2012 #3
TOOOOOO Funny fightthegoodfightnow Nov 2012 #5
Mae West... TeeYiYi Dec 2012 #7
NOW...... fightthegoodfightnow Dec 2012 #8
when Dolly gave the commencement address at U of Tennessee thats' when I found she was a deep person msongs Nov 2012 #4
I think she also addressed another school fightthegoodfightnow Nov 2012 #6

Warpy

(111,383 posts)
1. She's in the class I call "female drag queens,"
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 12:11 AM
Nov 2012

along with Cher, Charo, and quite a few others.

They're all great fun.

fightthegoodfightnow

(7,042 posts)
2. Charo!
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 12:15 AM
Nov 2012

......oh my goodness....the best.

Just saw a PBS special about out media icon David Geffen....great two hours....amazing....see it if you can....anyway....forgot she dated David in the 70s!

msongs

(67,462 posts)
4. when Dolly gave the commencement address at U of Tennessee thats' when I found she was a deep person
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 12:21 AM
Nov 2012

not the pop music only person I knew her to be (was not a big fan of country dolly at the time)

fightthegoodfightnow

(7,042 posts)
6. I think she also addressed another school
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 12:25 AM
Nov 2012

Can't recall, but similar response...pretty moving. I think I also saw the Univ of Tennessee address as well.

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