Pictured Dolly Parton Joan M. Garry will step down from the executive director position of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in June, the Advocate reported. 'I look back at the past eight years as the most professionally and personally rewarding of my life,' Garry said in a statement. 'And now feels like the right time to pass the baton. This job requires significant travel, and right now I'd like to travel less, be at home more, and spend a bit more time with my kids and my partner.'
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation condemned Bush Administration Education Secretary Margaret Spellings's attacks on PBS and a Postcards from Buster episode where the main character, Buster, visits children who have lesbian parents. PBS has said that its decision not to distribute the 'Sugartime!' episode of Postcards from Buster had nothing to do with Spellings's objection to its representation of gay people. However, the statement said that her letter to the network suggests that she intends to use the Department of Education's Ready-to-Learn Television grants program as a means of preventing participating media projects from presenting inclusive images of same-sex families.
The Human Rights Campaign ( HRC ) and the HRC Foundation, in conjunction with Centaur Entertainment, will release the double-disc love-song album Love Rocks Feb. 8. The disc will feature The Dixie Chicks, Melissa Etheridge, Christina Aguilera, Pink, Mandy Moore, Dido, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Yoko Ono, among others.