A gay bar in a wet mid-winter London may seem as far from Tennessee as you could get. But one proud Redneck is sparking a new trend in Britain’s LGBT scene by bringing country music and Southern hospitality to the UK capital.

The Tennessee many gay Brits imagine is the one that is currently debating a bill aimed at outing school kids and making it illegal for teachers to discuss LGBT issues. But that’s not what the South is really about – and Tennessee boy Baylen Leonard is determined to prove it.

When Michelle Williams attended last year's Academy Awards as a best actress nominee for My Week With Marilyn, her 'date' for the evening was her former Dawson's Creek co-star Busy Phillips.

In fact, Phillips was seen with Williams so much throughout awards season that some began speculating about whether or not the two women were more than friends.

Dolly Parton says she has received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan over her 'Gay Day' at theme park Dollywood in Tennessee.

Rumors about the relationship between the gay icon and her female best friend Judy Ogle have followed her throughout her career.

'Judy and I have been best friends since we were like in the third and fourth grade,' she said in the interview with the Daily Mail.

Fortunately the country western singer feels secure enough in her 46-year long marriage with Carl Dean that she is able to laugh off such claims.

Dolly Parton knows a bit about what Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King go through - constant speculation that the famous friends are also lovers.

Parton has faced the same rumors about herself and Judy Ogle, one of her oldest childhood friends.

Dolly Parton is showing she's still going strong with her latest CD/DVD An Evening With Dolly just passing the 500,000 mark in sales to become the first gold record sold via Cracker Barrell Stores.

Parton is also featured in the documentary Hollywood to Dollywood about gay twins Gary Lane and Larry Lane who rent an RV and drive across the country to the Dollywood theme park during the park's 25th anniversary festivities to personally deliver a movie script they wrote for Parton.

Whether it's Sally Field's M'Lynn screaming 'I'm fiiiiiiiine!' or Shirley MacLaine's Ouiser grousing about how she's been in a bad mood for 40 years, there are legions of gay men who know just about every word of dialogue from Steel Magnolias, the 1989 movie about is the bond among a group of women in Louisiana.

For nearly a decade, Pauley Perrette has played eccentric forensic scientist Abby Sciuto on the popular CBS drama NCIS.

The actress has also become a well-known civil rights activist who has been especially committed to LGBT equality and to raising money for the battle against AIDS.

It was in 1979 when Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand - both at the very height of their legendary recording careers - joined forces on the number one hit No More Tears (Enough is Enough).

Streisand released a statement Thursday (17 May) expressing her shock over the death of Summer who had died earlier in the day from cancer at the age of 63.

Gary and Larry Lane left their native North Carolina more than a decade ago to try their luck in Hollywood.

Equipped with wholesome good looks and charm, they have modeled, made commercials, gotten bit parts in movies and TV shows and been big winners on the reality shows Fear Factor and Winter Wipeout.

The twins, both gay, have also been working on writing scripts - one that they wrote especially for their idol, Dolly Parton. They had met Parton briefly at several Hollywood events but had no inside connections to get her to read their script.