Voice for Equality: Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music. In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart debut, she remains one of the most successful female artists in the history of country music, with twenty-five number-one singles, and a record forty-one top-10 country albums. She has the distinction of having performed on a top-five country hit in each of the last five decades and is the only artist to score a number-one country single in each of the past four decades. She is known for her distinctive soprano, sometimes bawdy humor, flamboyant dress sense and voluptuous figure. Learn more here.

On Friday, November 13, 2009, on the Joy Behar Show on CNN, Dolly Parton came out in support of marriage equality. Questioned by Behar on whether she was in favor of marriage equality, the country diva said, "Sure, why can’t [gays and lesbians] get married? They should suffer like the rest of us do." Ms. Parton acknowledged that her marriage viewpoint was perhaps unexpected given her southern background, and she also hypothesized that her large gay following came from she herself having been "different" and an outsider for many years. [Link]
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