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Trailblazing LGBTQ+ ally Dolly Parton dies aged 80 · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 1: Coming up, Guy Pearce on the Priscilla sequel. First up.
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton, one of the original vocal LGBTQ plus allies,
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  Speaker 1: has died at the age of 80. The country music
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  Speaker 1: style wasn't backwards and coming forwards in a support for
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  Speaker 1: queer people over the course of a career spanning eight decades.
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  Speaker 1: She was a Christian, but totally against the prejudice that
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  Speaker 1: often comes with that.
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  Speaker 3: I do not believe that we should criticise and judge
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  Speaker 3: other people. I think we should be accepting and loving people.
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  Speaker 3: We are all God's children. We are who we are
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  Speaker 3: and we should be allowed to be who we are.
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  Speaker 1: And she also told Larry King Now back in 2016
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  Speaker 1: there was pushback, but.
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  Speaker 3: I keep saying, well, if you're the fine Christian that
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  Speaker 3: you think you are, why are you judging people? Why
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  Speaker 3: are you... That's God's job. We're not God.
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  Speaker 1: As far as Dolly was concerned, it's like this.
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  Speaker 3: I just think that we should be more loving, more caring.
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  Speaker 3: We are who we are. If you're gay, you're gay.
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  Speaker 3: If you're straight, you're straight. And you should be allowed
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  Speaker 3: to be, you know, how you are and who you are.
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  Speaker 1: Dolly also stepped up to oppose the culture war clowns
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  Speaker 1: who target transgender people, supported equal marriage and sang about
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  Speaker 1: queer people in 1991, despite the stigma linked to AIDS.
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  Speaker 1: And she was a big fan of drag, especially when
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  Speaker 1: she was the inspiration once losing a Dolly Parton lookalike contest.
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  Speaker 1: A team say she's died following a brief battle with cancer.
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  Speaker 1: To Germany next, where an anti-LGBTQ plus Catholic bishop reckons
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  Speaker 1: not believing in God makes people queer. Stefan Oster also
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  Speaker 1: used a sermon to say diversity's a threat to democracy
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  Speaker 1: and that Christians don't have to condone the lifestyles openly
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  Speaker 1: displayed at Pride events. Had nothing to say about the
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  Speaker 1: recent terror attack at Berlin Pride, though, The 61-year-old's been
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  Speaker 1: criticised by, you know, normal, decent people. The Catholic LGBT
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  Speaker 1: Plus Committee's calling his comments absurd. Pride Daily. And an
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  Speaker 1: update on classic queer film Priscilla, Queen of the Desert's
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  Speaker 1: next instalment from one of its stars, Guy Pearce.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the sequel, right, which is going to be 2020,
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  Speaker 4: what are we now, 26?
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  Speaker 1: We'll probably shoot it 27, it'll come out 28.
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to get in the same shape for
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  Speaker 2: it as you did last time?
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  Speaker 1: How dare you? Thanks to ABC News. The first film
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  Speaker 1: back in 1994 saw Guy co-star alongside Hugo Weaving and
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  Speaker 1: Taryn Stamp as two drag queens and a transgender woman
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  Speaker 1: crossing the Australian desert in a tour bus. Stamp died
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  Speaker 1: last year, aged 87, but he's still in this sequel
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  Speaker 1: because he actually shot all his new scenes two months
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  Speaker 1: before he passed away. No time to tell you that.
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