WASHINGTON – Lady Gaga’s famous meat dress has made its way to Washington, along with Loretta Lynn’s song about “The Pill” and other relics from music history.
Lady Gaga’s dress from the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards is now dried and painted to restore its raw meat color. Beyond its shock value, though, it’s being displayed at the National Museum of Women in the Arts with an explanation of her political message.
When Lady Gaga wore the dress, she was accompanied by U.S. soldiers affected by the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays. She later explained that if people don’t stand up for their rights, they’ll have as many rights as a piece of meat.
The dress is featured in an exhibit opening Friday with items from other pioneering women in music.
from The Associated Press
Patrick Schwarzenegger is only 18 years old, but he’s already following in his famous father’s footsteps in the acting profession. One of his latest projects is a public service announcement to promote Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation and ET went behind the scenes of his photo shoot.
“The overall campaign is like a movement to spread kindness,” Patrick said during a break from shooting. He also said the campaign comes at the right time — with kids returning to school in a process that can be nerve wracking and scary — and described the PSA’s message as “promoting bravery and acceptance.”
Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation has teamed up with Office Depot’s Back-to-School Kindness Campaign — allowing students to purchase gift cards, post-it notes, bracelets and other items containing positive messages. Office Depot gave $1 million to the Born This Way Foundation and is also donating 25 percent of sales from campaign-related products.
Patrick said he was excited to get involved in the campaign with Lady Gaga, whom he admires for her anti-bullying efforts. “She was bullied and obviously some people were cruel and mean to her when she was growing up. But I think the world and society accepted who she was. And now her level of fame and success shows other kids that they can really be who they are.”
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By now it’s no secret that Sir Elton John and Madonna, two of the biggest legends in the music business, are not exactly seeing eye to eye these days. The brawl came to a head when Madge’s W.E. track “Masterpiece” beat out the Crocodile Rocker’s Lady Gaga duet from Gnomeo & Juliet at this year’s Golden Globes.
But Elton, at least, has yet to move on, since he had some particularly nasty words for the Queen of Pop in a new interview with Molly Meldrum — exclaiming “her career’s over,” and even going so far as to call her a “cunt.” Has he gone a bit too far this time around?
As if to rub salt in the wound, Elton had nothing but praise for Katy Perry, Rihanna, and especially godmother to his son Lady Gaga: “She’s amazing. Wherever she is in the world, she sends texts saying how is he, she comes and bathes him, she sings to him.”
But apparently Madonna hasn’t been quite so kind to Zachary’s godmother. “She’s been so horrible to Gaga,” Elton said, after slamming MDNA for trying to be younger and hipper than the Material Girl can get away with anymore. (A bit of criticism that has been lobbed at the album elsewhere as well.)
“If Madonna had any common sense she would have made a record like Ray Of Light and stayed away from the dance stuff and just been a great pop singer and make great pop records, which she does brilliantly,” Elton said. (Hey, there’s a compliment buried in there somewhere!) “She looks like a fucking fairground stripper.”
Well, even if Elton’s career advice is sound, this is a pretty harsh way to say it, particularly in a public interview. Elton’s claws are clearly out. Will Madonna respond in kind?
from Idolator
The pop superstar decided to cancel her performance in the Muslim-majority country after Islamic extremists threatened violence if she tried to go on with the show.
While the “Born This Way Ball” sold out of its 52,000 tickets for its scheduled June 3 concert in Indonesia, Lady Gaga has decided to cancel the performance amid security concerns. Promoters will now issue refunds.
Police officials in the area had originally announced they were worried about potential violence after Islamic extremists threatened violence if the American pop superstar tried to perform in the Muslim-majority country of 240 million in Southeast Asia.
The police originally said they didn’t approve of Lady Gaga’s message or outfits. However, they seemed to be softening their stance on the pop star this past week, with fans of Lady Gaga believing the police would provide the appropriate security permits and crowd control if the pop star agreed to tone down her risque performance. But ultimately, the pop star and her team decided the risks weren’t worth it.
“With threats if the concert goes ahead, Lady Gaga’s side is calling off the concert,” Minola Sebayang, a lawyer for concert promoter Big Daddy, told the Associated Press Sunday. “This is not only about Lady Gaga’s security, but extends to those who will be willing to watch her.”
Lady Gaga is not the first American popstar with suggestive lyrics and costumes to be threatened in the Southeast Asian nation: Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Kylie Minogue have all been the target of Islamic extremist protests. However, this may be the first major victory for the extremists in the nation. Some groups, including the Islamic Defenders Front, protest regularly against what they see as negative Western influences in Indonesia and in support of new local laws and regulations restricting gambling, alcohol, pornography, and other activities.
“This is a victory for Indonesian Muslims,” Salim Alatas, one of the leaders of the hard-line group, said, according to the Associated Press. “Thanks to God for protecting us from a kind of devil.”
For her part, Lady Gaga responded with a message on Twitter for her nearly 29 million followers: “There is nothing Holy about hatred.” She continued: “I am so very sorry for the fans & just as devastated as you if not more. You are everything to me. …I will try to put together something special for you. My love for Indonesia has only grown. #GagaSendsLoveToJakarta and all its people.”
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BANGKOK, THAILAND – Lady Gaga has met Thailand’s premier “lady boys” at a Bangkok drag show featuring busty dancers who were not born that way.
Diving in to the city’s nightlife, the pop diva and an entourage from her “Born This Way Ball” took in a show at the well-known Calypso Cabaret, where she cheered on a transvestite review of Broadway show tunes.
“A million people have to pay to see a Gaga concert, but Gaga paid to see our show!” cabaret manager Nipon Boonmasuwan told Friday’s Thairath newspaper. When the performance ended, she took the stage to shake hands with the dancers and handed out six tickets to her Friday night show.
Born This Way, the title track of Lady Gaga’s latest album, has become a gay anthem. It includes the line, “Don’t be a drag, just be a queen.” Transvestites and transsexuals are known in Thailand as lady boys.
Promoters confirmed Lady Gaga visited the cabaret Wednesday night, just hours after her arrival in Bangkok.
Lady Gaga’s Asian tour has generated publicity and often controversy at nearly every stop.
In Seoul, fans younger than 18 were banned from Lady Gaga’s concerts after Christian groups complained that her lyrics and costumes were too sexually provocative.
It remains unclear if her June 3 show in Jakarta will take place after Muslim hard-liners threatened violence. Indonesian police initially denied a permit but later hinted the show could go on if she tones it down.
Not a chance, said her manager Troy Carter, who told the Straits Times in Singapore on Friday that Lady Gaga “plays the show as it is” and has no plan to self-censor.
from The Associated Press
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Scores of conservative South Korean Christians will pray together on Sunday against Lady Gaga’s Seoul concert, organisers said, accusing the US pop star of advocating homosexuality and pornography.
The pop diva arrived in South Korea on Friday, a week before her Seoul performance which kicks off her “Born This Way Ball Global Tour.”
About 300 Protestant church members will gather in downtown Seoul Sunday night to hold a group prayer against the concert in the capital, Kang Ju-Hyun, a prayer organiser told AFP.
“We will pray to God that the concert will not be realised so that homosexuality and pornography will not spread around the country,” he said.
Kang, who leads a group called Alliance for Sound Culture In Sexuality, said other major church groups would join his campaign by holding protests around the Seoul headquarters of Hyundai Card, the concert organiser.
The Korean Association of Church Communication vowed last month to take “concerted action to stop young people from being infected with homosexuality and pornography.”
Kang’s group last week put out street banners in Seoul accusing the eccentric singer of “spreading unhealthy sexual culture” through “lewd lyrics and performances,” before they were removed by the city officials.
South Koreans aged under 18 have been banned from the much-anticipated concert after it was rated unsuitable for younger audiences.
The show had an initial age rating of 12 and older but the Korea Media Rating Board — a state watchdog — adjusted it upwards.
Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, is famous for the hit songs “Bad Romance” and “Poker Face,” and has become a strident voice for gay rights and anti-bullying campaigns.
From the April 27 concert at Seoul’s Olympic Stadium, Lady Gaga will take her hits and extravagant costumes to Asian venues including Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines, and then on to 21 European cities.
The singer is expected to do 110 shows this year following up the success of her album “Born This Way”, which has sold nearly six million copies worldwide since it was released in May 2011.
The star, who has a record number of almost 22 million followers on Twitter, told fans that she would “perform the tour of your life” on her Twitter posting on Sunday.
South Korea has East Asia’s largest Christian community after the Philippines, with about 8.6 million Protestants and 5.1 million Catholics. About 10 million South Koreans are Buddhists.
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You might say that Lady Gaga’s year really began in an egg.
That’s how she arrived at the Grammys in February, encased in a large, translucent pod carried by scantily clad dancers. When she “hatched” onstage, she effectively gave birth to “Born This Way,” performing the eponymous lead single of her second studio album and anthem to self-acceptance. In 2011, the album would carry her around the world, where she rarely went unnoticed.
After a year of extravagant globe-trotting and relentless advocacy of tolerance, Lady Gaga has been voted Entertainer of the Year by members of The Associated Press.
There were 135 ballots submitted by U.S. news organizations that make up the AP’s membership. Editors and broadcasters were asked to cast their ballots for who had the most influence on entertainment and culture in 2011.
“I am humbled and honored to be named `Entertainer of The Year’ by The Associated Press,” Lady Gaga said in a statement Monday signed “Mother Monster.”
“My deepest gratitude to the broadcasters and journalists who’ve supported me over the years, and in turn, are now supporting the loves of my life: my fans. Thank you for believing in `Born This Way.’ May you continue to brave the dreams of Showbiz.”
Lady Gaga narrowly edged out the late Apple founder Steve Jobs by three votes. Many others received numerous votes, including Taylor Swift, Charlie Sheen, Adele and the cast of “Harry Potter.” Previous winners of the AP Entertainer of the Year include Betty White, Swift, Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert.
But it was Lady Gaga whose eminence in 2011 stood out most to voters. While accepting the best pop vocal album Grammy for her previous disc, “The Fame Monster,” earlier this year, she said stardom was an adjustment for her.
“When I wrote `Born This Way,’ I imagined (Whitney Houston) was singing it because I wasn’t secure enough in myself to imagine I was a superstar,” she said.
When the album was released in May, 1.1 million copies sold in the first week, partly aided by a dramatic discount from Amazon, which sold it for 99 cents. But it was an industry-shattering moment because an extraordinary 60 percent of sales in the first week were digital downloads. Altogether, it outsold the next 42 albums on the Billboard chart combined. As of October, worldwide sales had surpassed 8 million copies.
“One of my greatest artworks is the art of fame,” the 25-year-old told “60 Minutes” earlier this year. “I’m a master of the art of fame.”
Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, is prepping for a “Born This Way” tour. Her “Monster Ball Tour” was still going strong earlier this year, which went a long way toward making her, according to Forbes, the highest grossing female musician in 2011. The magazine, which compiled pretax income earned from May 2010 to May 2011, said Lady Gaga earned $90 million.
Paul Pronovost, editor of the Cape Cod Times, called Lady Gaga’s “A Very Gaga Thanksgiving” – a bizarre ABC holiday special hosted by the singer – “a brilliant reach to mainstream America.”
“Transcendent performers like Lady Gaga come around as often as Halley’s Comet,” says Pronovost. “She has that rare gift of sophisticated self-promotion, so outlandish at times you just can’t look away” and the talent to back it up. “This is Madonna 4.0.”
The concerts spawned an HBO special, which was nominated for five Emmys Awards and won one. Lady Gaga was a regular presence at award shows throughout the year. She won three Grammys in February, including best female pop vocal performance. She won two MTV Video Music Awards. She was recently nominated for three Grammys for next year’s awards, including best album. This summer, her infamous meat dress – made of layers of Argentinian beef – was put on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
She visited the White House and appeared as the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live.” She performed at former President Bill Clinton’s 65th-birthday bash with an ode to Marilyn Monroe. She remained the person most followed on Twitter, with more than 17 million Little Monsters – or more people who live in Greece and Ireland combined. And for the mark of true fame, she was parodied by Weird Al Yankovic, who turned “Born This Way” into “Perform This Way.”
She collaborated with a number of music legends, including Elton John (“Hello, Hello” for “Gnomeo & Juliet”), Tony Bennett (“The Lady Is a Tramp”) and Cher (“The Greatest Thing”). She continually released ambitious videos, most recently the 13-minute epic “Marry the Night.” It had 5 million views in less than 48 hours.
“She gets people talking,” says Greg Retsinas, digital director of the Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, Calif. “She’s a polarizing figure not just in music and fashion but in pop culture and society. In a recent week, I heard her referenced personally by my 9-year-old daughter, a prominent local CFO and an airline pilot, all glowingly.”
With the help of the MacArthur Foundation and Harvard University, Lady Gaga also founded the Born This Way Foundation, a nonprofit focusing on youth empowerment and “issues like self-confidence, well-being, anti-bullying, mentoring and career development.” She has spoken frequently about such issues. At EuroPride, a gay pride concert in Rome in June, she said, “We beckon for compassion, understanding and above all we want full equality now.”
“I am a child of diversity,” she said. “I am one with my generation.”
Lady Gaga will be ringing in the New Year with typical showmanship. She’ll be the featured guest on Dick Clark’s annual “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” special from New York City’s Times Square. Meanwhile, Christmas shoppers can walk through the holiday display she designed at Barney’s in New York: 5,500 square feet of bright colors, crazy shapes and a gigantic cartoon statue of the superstar herself.
from The Associated Press
Let’s just say they went gaga.
Students cheered and clapped when a personal video from Lady Gaga was shown at an anti-bullying assembly at Etobicoke School of the Arts on Friday. Up until then, students had no idea she had recorded a message and thank you to them.
Student council president Jacques St. Pierre had to keep a poker face since October, after receiving an email from Lady Gaga’s staff with a link to the video. He decided to keep it a surprise until the assembly.
“I’ve seen it over 300 times,” gushed St. Pierre, a huge fan of the mega pop star, in an interview before the Friday event.
In August, the Grade 12 student wrote to several celebrities — including talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, singer Katy Perry and Tim Gunn from Project Runway — hoping a message from one of them would have a big impact on students as the school launched an anti-bullying campaign.
“Sometimes schools talk about bullying but never make changes,” he said. “I thought if I could get someone as influential as Lady Gaga to speak to students, that would make a change.”
Lady Gaga has been an outspoken anti-bullying crusader in the U.S., outraged over the recent suicide of a gay Buffalo teen who had been targeted. She has been lobbying U.S. politicians — including President Barack Obama — to have bullying made illegal.
Etobicoke School of the Arts students are trying to combat homophobia, racism, sexism and body image issues through performance and plan to take their message to other schools in the Toronto District School Board, said St. Pierre.
On Friday, students took a pledge to “make it better” — an extension of the “it gets better” campaign.
St. Pierre, 17, was bullied in elementary school by students who called him a fag for being interested in theatre and drama.
However, he said his high school has been “amazing and accepting.”
But there’s still work to be done; comments like “don’t be a fag” or “that’s so gay” are still common among teens. And, earlier this year, a private webpage was set up where fellow students posted anonymous comments about one another.
In his letter to Lady Gaga, St. Pierre told her who he is and about the school’s campaign.
“And then I talked about why it would be amazing to hear from her.”
In the video, Lady Gaga says hello to St. Pierre, the school and “talks about how proud she is” of their efforts.
She also implores students to “treat each other with kindness, love, and to accept everyone . . . and that she’s doing her best to make bullying a hate crime.”
She then sends her love and tells them to have a “wonderful day at school and to love each other.”
The video, which runs about one minute, 15 seconds, was the edge of glory for St. Pierre.
“When I showed it to the student council, they all cheered and screamed and freaked out . . . she’s talking directly to (students).”
from The Star
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Lady Gaga and her longtime creative director Laurieann Gibson are no longer working together, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Popular hip-hop gossip site MediaTakeOut was first to report that the two had a “bitter fight.” It postulates that Gibson’s ego has gotten the best of the choreographer-turned-reality star and points to several comments made in the press recently, one in which Gibson credits Madonna for inspiring Gaga’s ever-evolving style — a comparison Gaga has tried to distance herself from.
The two had been working together since Gaga was first signed to Interscope Records. In April, Gibson described their earliest experiences together to THR. “I met one brilliant artist that the world had no idea existed,” she said. “The hypocrisies of the industry were forcing her to act one way. She tells people that I fought for her, and I fought to protect her gift because it’s rare. She’s a fearless, transparent entertainer… we’re colorful, we’re dramatic, we were born this way.”
But as time went on, and Gibson pursued her own projects, like the Ryan Seacrest-produced E! series The Dance Scene, friction began to trickle into their working relationship. A hint of it came during the filming of Gaga’s “Judas” video, whose strong religious overtones made Gibson somewhat uneasy. She described the conceptual debate as such: “At one point, there was two completely different views and after the third glass of wine, I was like, ‘Listen, I don’t want lightning to strike me. I believe in the Gospel and I’m not going there.’” Gibson added that she would have walked away from filming without a conceptual compromise.
A scrapped treatment for the “Edge of Glory” video also apparently involved Gibson, who brought up “an issue” with director Joseph Kahn’s vision for the clip, which was scrapped in favor of a low-rent city fire escape visual. Gibson went on a Twitter tirade after fans questioned the production value of the video and what went down. Gibson tweeted to two such critics: “listen u disrespectful f**k they had an issue on set I don’t lie!!!!!” and “creative Changes happen always educate ignorant Monster’s!!!”
According to a source, relations between Gibson and Gaga really began to unravel this summer around the filming of yet another video, “Yoü and I.” More recently, THR reported of a red carpet scuffle in September involving Gibson at the Creative Arts Emmys, where she was nominated for directing Gaga’s Monster Ball concert movie for HBO. Apparently, Gibson was taking her sweet time posing for photographers, so much so that she created gridlock and angered ID PR chief Kelly Bush, who was waiting with her client Paul Reubens.
Richard Jackson, who was Gibson’s No. 2, is now choreographing all of Gaga’s performances, the pop star tweeted on Nov. 6. The two are currently in London, where Gaga just performed on U.K. X Factor.
A rep for Gaga confirmed to THR that the two are no longer working together but declined to comment further. Gibson could not be reached for comment.
from The Hollywood Reporter
ROME – Lady Gaga arrived in Rome on Saturday for a gay rights parade at which hundreds of thousands are set to voice their defiance against the Vatican and Silvio Berlusconi’s ‘backward’ government.
Organisers of the EuroPride event say they want to stress that Italy is a laggard in terms of gay rights in Europe, with no specific laws against homophobic violence and no provision for gay civil unions.
Paolo Patane, director of Italian activist group Arcigay, said he hoped the parade would help ‘push out’ the Berlusconi government, which is already reeling from a humiliating defeat in local elections this month.
The leaders of two small opposition parties – Italy of Values and Left, Ecology and Freedom – have said they will attend the parade, which also comes on the eve of referendums that will again challenge the government.
Organisers say they are expecting around a million people at the parade, while police forecasts range between 300,000 and 500,000. Tight security measures are in place to prevent any possible outbreaks of violence.
A small protest is planned by a religious group calling itself ‘Militia Christi,’ and Catholic politicians have warned Lady Gaga, a vocal advocate of gay rights, against making provocative statements about the pope.
from Straits Times
The pop singer continues to be in the headlines as she released a video Friday asking Senate to overturn ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’, which prevents gays, lesbians, and bisexuals from openly serving the military. “It is my belief that no one person is more valuable than another,” Gaga says in the over-seven-minute long, black-and-white video, flanked by the American flag.
Earlier in the week, Gaga posted a tweet urging her fans and followers to tell Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to repeal the legislation.
In response, Reid’s senate campaign tweeted: “There is a vote on #DADT next week. Anyone qualified to serve this country should be allowed to do so.”
Lady Gaga replied: “God Bless and Thank you @HarryReid, from all of us, like u, who believe in equality and the dream of this country. We were #BORNTHISWAY.”
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote this Tuesday on whether to begin debate on the annual Defense Department authorization bill, which includes language about ending DADT. The vote is expected to be close, even though the U.S. House of Representatives has already voted to repeal it.
This is Gaga’s most overt political stance on LGBT rights to date as she describes herself as “a voice for my generation” in the video. The video has been posted on her personal homepage, her Facebook Fan Page, and her Twitter account. She also invited four gay veterans discharged from the military as her dates to the MTV Music Video Awards.
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WASHINGTON – Lady Gaga came to Washington over the weekend to accept her crown as the gay community’s reigning pop culture icon, snatching the title from the clutches of Britney (too fake), Kelly Clarkson (too “Idol”) and Beyoncé (too Diana Ross in “Mahogany”). The outlandish, platinum-selling, bisexual, 23-year-old pop singer was the highest-wattage celebrity to attend both the Human Rights Campaign dinner Saturday night and the National Equality March on Sunday. Her name was on everyone’s lips for a solid 48 hours. A movement is genuflecting.
So, Ms. Gaga, m’lady: Any pressure?
“There’s no pressure,” she said, incredulous at the very notion. She was leaning on a stone ledge under a tree by the Capitol, her face powdered white, hair platinum, lips scarlet, hands slipped in the pockets of black trousers hitched up with black suspenders. Nearby rally-goers screeched her name. She had marched with the crowds from her hotel after shrugging off security concerns, and had just finished a short speech to an enraptured throng of tens of thousands on the West Lawn. Glittery signs reading “Gay for Gaga” and “Lady Gaga {heart} Equality, U Should 2″ poked up from the rainbowed masses.
“ARE YOU LISTENING?” the pop star screamed out to President Obama. “We will continue to push your administration to bring your promise to reality.”
The singer had stepped up from her concert soapbox to a bigger platform. Was this just part of her elaborate performance art, another special effect from an entertainer (born Stefani Germanotta in New York) who only has one album and less than two years of mainstream exposure? If you challenge her on this, she’ll squeeze your arm to assure you she’s for real.
“I will never turn my back on my friends,” said Lady Gaga, before disappearing from the rally. “Today is not a one-off performance.”
The gays surged toward her at the HRC dinner Saturday. They went nuts when she appeared, like some modern-day Evita, in the window of the elevated VIP booth at the 9:30 club hours later. She’s freaky-deaky, like a female drag queen, a hot mess yet super-savvy, fierce and fab, a prodigious pianist, dressed like a vamp but almost childlike in her sincerity. All of this was on display Saturday night.
She sat front-and-center at the black-tie Human Rights Campaign gala in the ballroom of the Washington Convention Center, where 3,000 gay advocates and allies clinked glasses and liberally exercised the right to give standing ovations (she got two). HRC President Joe Solmonese says she was an obvious invite — “She pushes boundaries and brings people along” — and credited her for the dinner’s rapid sellout. Even the president of the United States knows his place.
“It is a privilege to be here tonight to open for Lady Gaga,” Obama said during his remarks.
Gaga sat at Table 77, looking slightly embalmed, in her version of formalwear: fishnet stockings and a bunchy black dress made of layered mesh below the waist and crushed velvet above. She hid her eyes behind large, circular sunglasses, part circus act, part savior of the moment. Some can’t help hyperbolizing.
“It’s almost like Martin Luther King and the civil rights speeches,” said gala attendee Daniel Campbell, 23, who works at a downtown CVS and at Reagan National Airport. “We have a voice.”
People say she’s perfect for her time and place. Her music, which she writes herself, is an infectious blend of pop and electronic. The sexual shell game “Poker Face,” the club anthem “Just Dance” or “Paparazzi,” a self-aware cry for help from within the fortress of fame, will play at least once in any gay club on any given night. Her performance style is raw despite relying on over-the-top production values. She sort of makes fame into an art, and she sounds fervent about gay rights. “Get your [rear end] to D.C.,” she demanded in a video released last week.
“Primarily, the kids that are taking to the streets are 18, 19, 20, 21, and she is their Madonna, their Cher, the next-generation diva, so to speak,” says Ross von Metzke, editor of Advocate.com. “She puts her time and money where her mouth is.”
Over dessert at the HRC gala, D.C. Council member David Catania admitted to being obsessed with her but doesn’t view her as political. “I look at it as pure entertainment,” he said. “She’s a fantastic performer.”
What of the lesbians, though? Are they as taken by Gaga as gay men? Chris Crespo, who works for Ernst & Young just north of Pittsburgh, and her partner, Jane Switzer, first heard about Gaga only a couple of weeks ago. As members of a more senior gay generation, they’re not sold yet.
“We’re always excited to see someone speaking the truth,” Switzer offered before the gala began. “She definitely draws a crowd.”
Gaga took the stage just before 10 p.m. to express her gratitude for the HRC. She was restrained. The artifice momentarily vanished.
“In the music industry there’s still a tremendous amount of accommodation of homophobia,” she said. “So I’m taking a stand. . . . I’m not going to play one of my songs tonight because tonight is not about me. It’s about you.” And then she sat at a white baby grand piano and began to plink out the familiar see-saw intro to John Lennon’s “Imagine,” whose second verse she changed to fit the moment.
People of the nation:
Are you listening?
It isn’t equal if it’s sometimes.
I want a real democracy.
Imagine all the people
Could love equally . . .
Crespo turned in her seat after the performance to make a note.
“She has a new fan,” she said.
from The Washington Post
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