Is Lady Gaga Gay?

Contents:

• LADY GAGA SPEAKS OUT FOR ABORTN RIGHTS & GAY MARRIAGE AT CHROMATI BALL: WATCH
• LADY GAGA GO NU, STANDS UP FOR GAYS
• 8 TIM LADY GAGA EARNED HER ‘GAY IN’ TLE
• IS LADY GAGA GAY?
• LADY GAGA: THE GAYT THG TO EVER HAPPEN AT AN INGURATNPOP PATRTISMCAMPY, PATRTIC, AND, ABOVE ALL, PROUD, GAGA’S GRAND GURATN PERFORMANCE REPRENTED SURVIVORS, THE UNRREPRENTED, AND THE HOPEFUL—AND WAS BLISSFULLY, FABULOLY GAY.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JAN. 20, 2021 3:49PM EST / PUBLISHED JAN. 20, 2021 1:51PM EST BLOOMBERG/GETTYTHE GOLN DOVE BROOCH ON HER CHT ULD BE SEEN OM THE MOON, BUT EVEN THAT WAS JT A DIMUTIVE ACCSORY OVERSHADOWED BY LADY GAGA’S BROAD, BEAMG SE AS SHE NAILED HER RENDN OF THE NATNAL ANTHEM AT THE GURATN OF JOE BIN AND KAMALA HARRIS ON WEDNDAY.SHE WAS BROADSTG SOMETHG BIGGER THAN HER FASHN CHOIC, BIGGER THAN HER OFTEN OVER-THE-TOP CELEBRY PERSONA, AND, ARGUABLY, BIGGER THAN THE HISTORIC MOMENT SHE WAS ST TO BE A PART OF. SHE WAS TELEGRAPHG PRI.NOTHG SPEAKS MORE TO HOW MUCH WE VENERATE THE AMERIN ENTERTAMENT DTRY THAN THE IMPORTANCE WE PLACE ON THE TERSECTN OF POP STARS AND PATRTISM AT PIVOTAL MOMENTS LIKE THIS. IN RECENT HISTORY, THK ABOUT ARETHA FRANKL PERFORMG AT THE FIRST GURATN OF BARACK OBAMA, THE UNTRY’S FIRST BLACK PRINT, AND BEYONCé EMOTNALLY SERENADG HIM AND MICHELLE OBAMA WH “AT LAST” FOR THEIR FIRST DANCE AS PRINT AND FIRST LADY. THK ABOUT WHAT MEANT WHEN WHNEY HOTON’S VOICE PIERCED EVEN THE SOUNDS OF THE FIGHTER JETS FLYG OVERHEAD WHEN SHE SANG THE NATNAL ANTHEM AT THE SUPER BOWL 1991, AS THE UNTRY RECKONED WH THE PERSIAN GULF WAR. OR HOW WE RELY ON MICIANS AND ARTISTS TO GUI THROUGH MOURNG AFTER TRAGEDY, WHETHER ’S THE STAR-STUDD NCERTS PUT ON AFTER 9/11 OR MIL TRIBUT TO FALLEN HERO OVER THE YEARS.THE CHOICE OF LADY GAGA TO SG “THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER” AT THE GURATN OF BIN AND HARRIS, THE FIRST BLACK PERSON, WOMAN OF ASIAN SCENT, AND FIRST WOMAN TO BE ELECTED VICE-PRINT, MATTERED—JT AS THE STG OF JENNIFER LOPEZ TO SG HER, UM, UNIQUE MASH-UP OF “THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND” AND “AMERI THE BETIFUL” MATTERED. EVEN GARTH BROOKS, WHO PLEDGED THAT HIS PERFORMANCE OF “AMAZG GRACE” WAS NOT MEANT TO BE NSTED AS “A POLIL STATEMENT,” ACTUALLY MATTERED.STANDG NFINT ONT OF THE DOORS AND ARCH THAT WERE STORMED, SLED, VANDALIZED, AND OCCUPIED BY VLENT SURRECTNISTS ATTEMPTG TO UPEND MOCRACY JT TWO WEEKS BEFORE, LADY GAGA BELTED THE NATNAL ANTHEM, HER VOICE CHANNELG THE SHRIEKS AND CRI OF A NATN SPERATE TO EXORCISE THE HATE, HARM, DIVISN, AND EVIL OF THE LAST FOUR YEARS.HER ENTRANCE WAS, OF URSE, DRAMATIC. THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE ASKG FOR WHEN YOU BOOK LADY GAGA TO MAKE AMERIN HISTORY.HER HAIR WAS TWISTED TO BRAIDS. THE DOVE BROOCH EMBELLISHED AN OTHERWISE ELEGANT AND STAID BLACK TOP, WH HER OVERSIZED RED SKIRT RIVALG THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE CAPOL ROTUNDA. IT WAS HER TAKE ON “SUAL PROFSNAL BUT YOU WILL BE HISTORY BOOKS FOR THE RT OF TIME” UNRSTATEMENT. IN OTHER WORDS, IS THE OUTF YOU CHOOSE WHEN YOU ARE THE STMENT SELECTED TO TMPET THAT MOCRATIC ARMAGEDDON HAS BEEN NARROWLY AVOID.SHE WAS CLEAR-VOICED, HER BELTG AS POWERFUL AND ROBT AS ’S EVER BEEN. SHE OPTED FOR A DIFFERENT ARRANGEMENT OF THE SONG THAN HER PRECSORS, WHICH WAS FTG AS THIS IS LADY GAGA, BUT NOT ONE THAT WAS DISTRACTG, OVER-PLITED, OR EVEN—AND THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART—ALL THAT DULGENT.HER PERFORMANCE WAS MPY, CHOREOGRAPHED WH EXUBERANT GTICULATN AND APPROPRIATE, ALMOST CHEY GRANUR. ON THE LYRIC “THE FLAG WAS STILL THERE,” HER VOICE CLIMBED THE SLE AS IF HAD JT BEEN EED, ECHOG THE SPIR OF SO MANY ON THIS NEW DAY AND NEW ADMISTRATN. SHE GTURED ENTHIASTILLY AT THE AMERIN FLAG BEHD HER AND SANG TO . THERE WAS GTO! GRAVAS! GOOFS!THE BT PART WAS THAT YOU ULD TELL HOW MUCH MEANT TO HER, BEE SHE KNEW HOW MUCH MEANT TO ALL OF . SGG AS LOUD AS I’VE EVER HEARD HER, SHE PERFORMED WH THAT AFOREMENTNED, ELIVE FEELG: PRI. WHEN WAS OVER, SHE WAS PRACTILLY RADIANT WH . LADY GAGA, WH THAT RENDN OF “THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER,” SANG OVER THE BRIDGE, BACK TO A POT OF FEELG THAT—PROUD—ONCE AGA.IS TOO MUCH TO SAY THAT WAS THE GAYT THG TO EVER HAVE HAPPENED AT A PRINTIAL GURATN? WH RPECT TO ARETHA FRANKL’S BOW HAT, I WOULD SAY ’S NOT.THE PERFORMERS FOR OCSNS LIKE THIS ARE CHOSEN BEE OF WHAT THEY REPRENT AND, MORE SPECIFILLY, WHO THEY REPRENT. FOR THIS PARTICULAR GIG, THEY ARE HISTORILLY CHOSEN BEE OF THE AMERI THEY REPRENT, SOMETHG THAT’S EASY TO GGE BY THE SELECTN OF LOPEZ AND HER TI TO THE LATX MUNY AND BROOKS, WH HIS ROLE UNG THE UNTRY’S WARRG IALS.GAGA, OF URSE, REPRENTS THE UNUAL. THERE WAS MORE THAN ONE JOKE MA THAT THE CAPOL WAS GOG TO TRANSFORM TO A SPACHIP AS SHE H HER LAST NOT AND TRANSPORT HER BACK TO HER HOME PLA.BUT SHE ALSO REPRENTS THE MISTREATED, THE MISUNRSTOOD, AND THE MARGALIZED.SHE IS AN IDOL AND A BEAN OF LIGHT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY, AND HER PRENCE ON THE CAPOL STEPS WEDNDAY MORNG SPOKE TO THE FACT THAT, FALLY, THIS IS THEIR—OUR—AMERI, TOO.IT IS ONLY THE LAST NE YEARS THAT THERE HAS BEEN A PRINT THE WHE HOE WHO OPENLY SUPPORTED GAY MARRIAGE AND EQUAL RIGHTS FOR THE MUNY. AND JT 18 MONTHS AFTER THE HISTORIC SUPREME COURT LG LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, OBAMA WAS OUT OF OFFICE. THE TMP ADMISTRATN ROLLED BACK PROTECTNS FOR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY UP UNTIL THE MAN’S LAST DAY OFFICE. TO SOME, OM HER LOOK TO HER EARNT AND DIGNIFIED ARRANGEMENT, GAGA’S PERFORMANCE MAY HAVE SEEMED TRADNAL. TO THOSE OF SPOKE TO, WAS POSIVELY RENEGA. SHE WAS SGG FOR . IF YOU KNOW LADY GAGA’S STORY AND PECIALLY IF YOU KNOW THE HISTORY OF HER WORKG RELATNSHIP WH BIN—THE TWO HAVE TEAMED OVER THE YEARS TO RAISE AWARENS ABOUT SEXUAL ASSLT—YOU’LL KNOW WHAT MEANT TO WATCH HER SG AS A SURVIVOR. THAT’S A LOAD WORD AT THIS POT OUR NATN. AND SPEAKS TO THE IMPORTANCE OF MIC AT THE TIM, AND THE NECSY TO WANT TO SAY SOMETHG WH THE CHOIC OF WHO IS GOG TO SG AND WHAT THEIR VOICE WILL MEAN.IN NTRAST TO THE NONSENSIL AND POTLS LP AT THE PRE-GURATN NCERT, TUDAY’S COVID MEMORIAL, THE FIRST PUBLIC MOURNG OF THE LIV LOST TO THE PANMIC, WAS MA ALL THE MORE PROFOUND BEE OF THE MIC CHOIC.THERE, YOLANDA ADAMS PERFORMED A WRENCHG RENDN OF “HALLELUJAH,” ECHOG THE TLE WORD SEEMGLY ENDLS, WRENCHG FASHN, EACH REPETN BURROWG EVEN EPER TO THE PA AND THE REALY OF THE LOSS. AND NURSE LORI MARIE KEY SANG “AMAZG GRACE,” HER RAW, GOD-TOUCHED VOICE LIFTG OUR HEARTS WH EACH NOTE TO A POT OF MAYBE, FALLY BEG ABLE TO FEEL THARSIS.LEADG UP TO THE SWEARG- CEREMONY’S START, MSNBC HOST JOY REID REMD, “THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY BOYTT OF THE TMP PRINCY IS ONE OF THE FEW THGS HE TOOK TO HEART THAT THGS WEREN’T GOG TOO WELL.” HE WAS SPERATE FOR THEIR APPROVAL, AND STEAD HE WAS EMBRACED BY THE EVANGELIL WORLD THAT SPISED HOLLYWOOD AND WHAT STANDS FOR. BUT WE MAY HAVE FOTTEN WHAT A POIGNANT LOSS WAS NOT TO BE ABLE TO TURN TO OUR LEARS TO CHAMPN ARTS AND PERFORMERS TO SHEPHERD THROUGH THOSE HARD YEARS.WE ARE A UNTRY THAT HAS ENDURED SUCH TRYG, HARMFUL TIM THAT THERE IS A TEMPTATN TO LOOK EPER TO EVERYTHG AND ANYTHG HAPPENG ON INGURATN DAY FOR MEANG: A SIGN OF TIM TO E, OR A SIGN OF WHO WE MAY ONE DAY BE AGA. IT’S A NATURAL EXERCISE, EVEN IF, TO SOME, MIGHT SEEM LIKE A STRETCH. BUT RT ASSURED THERE IS NOTHG THAT LADY GAGA DO THAT IS NOT RIPE FOR SUCH PARSG, PECIALLY WHEN SHE’S SGG FOR A NEW AMERI. KEV FALLON
• LADY GAGA TALKS IMPORTANCE OF PRONOUNS, GAY PRI DURG ROG SPEECH
• LADY GAGA SPEAKS OUT ON SUPREME COURT ABORTN RULG AT WASHGTON D.C. CONCERT: ‘THEY’D BETTER NOT MS WH GAY MARRIAGE’
• LADY GAGA FENDS GAY MARRIAGE, ABORTN RIGHTS AT U.S. TOUR OPENER: 'I PRAY THAT THIS UNTRY WILL SPEAK UP'

LADY GAGA SPEAKS OUT FOR ABORTN RIGHTS & GAY MARRIAGE AT CHROMATI BALL: WATCH

(SOUNDBITE OF SUPER BOWL LI TELECAST)LADY GAGA: (Sgg) No matter gay, straight or bi, lbian, transgenr life - I'm on the right track, baby.

LADY GAGA GO NU, STANDS UP FOR GAYS

He was bullied for beg gay before he really unrstood what that meant.

But Tracy Young, a celebry DJ who plays at gay parti and Pri events around the untry, says that's not the only reason people still love the YOUNG: I thk she h Young, a lbian, says anyone who has stggled to e to terms wh their sexual inty rponds to those lyrics - born this way. I was born this Even though Elton John hailed "Born This Way" as the new gay anthem when first me out, there was also a backlash agast .

" She was even acced of explog her gay fan base, a charge mic wrer John Savage SAVAGE: Obvly, Lady Gaga wanted to say somethg about her gay dience and what she thought about the posn of gay people. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I WAS BORN THIS WAY")VALENTINO: (Sgg) Jt bee I'm happy - happy - I'm reee - reee - and I'm gay - gay - y, I'm gay, a't a flt.

8 TIM LADY GAGA EARNED HER ‘GAY IN’ TLE

(SOUNDBITE OF RADIO SHOW, "THE HOWARD STERN SHOW")LADY GAGA: There's a preacher, Carl Bean, Los Angel, and I believe he's gay. He says he had always known that he was gay, so felt like a perfect I always say the lyric found me, and was very Bean, now a retired pastor, was the founr of Uny Fellowship Church. He mistered to gays and lbians and was an activist durg the AIDS crisis.

IS LADY GAGA GAY?

No As much as "Born This Way" has been embraced as a gay anthem, Tim Cox says 's also an anthem for anyone who feels outsi the mastream. For over a , Stefani Joanne Angela Germanotta, Lady Gaga for short, has had one clear objective md: to promote the gay agenda. And The Lady is the first one to adm : one of her first ver story terviews (Out, September 2009), Gaga said that she wanted to “ject gay culture to the mastream.

So I always sort of joke the real motivatn is to jt turn the world gay.

LADY GAGA: THE GAYT THG TO EVER HAPPEN AT AN INGURATNPOP PATRTISMCAMPY, PATRTIC, AND, ABOVE ALL, PROUD, GAGA’S GRAND GURATN PERFORMANCE REPRENTED SURVIVORS, THE UNRREPRENTED, AND THE HOPEFUL—AND WAS BLISSFULLY, FABULOLY GAY.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JAN. 20, 2021 3:49PM EST / PUBLISHED JAN. 20, 2021 1:51PM EST BLOOMBERG/GETTYTHE GOLN DOVE BROOCH ON HER CHT ULD BE SEEN OM THE MOON, BUT EVEN THAT WAS JT A DIMUTIVE ACCSORY OVERSHADOWED BY LADY GAGA’S BROAD, BEAMG SE AS SHE NAILED HER RENDN OF THE NATNAL ANTHEM AT THE GURATN OF JOE BIN AND KAMALA HARRIS ON WEDNDAY.SHE WAS BROADSTG SOMETHG BIGGER THAN HER FASHN CHOIC, BIGGER THAN HER OFTEN OVER-THE-TOP CELEBRY PERSONA, AND, ARGUABLY, BIGGER THAN THE HISTORIC MOMENT SHE WAS ST TO BE A PART OF. SHE WAS TELEGRAPHG PRI.NOTHG SPEAKS MORE TO HOW MUCH WE VENERATE THE AMERIN ENTERTAMENT DTRY THAN THE IMPORTANCE WE PLACE ON THE TERSECTN OF POP STARS AND PATRTISM AT PIVOTAL MOMENTS LIKE THIS. IN RECENT HISTORY, THK ABOUT ARETHA FRANKL PERFORMG AT THE FIRST GURATN OF BARACK OBAMA, THE UNTRY’S FIRST BLACK PRINT, AND BEYONCé EMOTNALLY SERENADG HIM AND MICHELLE OBAMA WH “AT LAST” FOR THEIR FIRST DANCE AS PRINT AND FIRST LADY. THK ABOUT WHAT MEANT WHEN WHNEY HOTON’S VOICE PIERCED EVEN THE SOUNDS OF THE FIGHTER JETS FLYG OVERHEAD WHEN SHE SANG THE NATNAL ANTHEM AT THE SUPER BOWL 1991, AS THE UNTRY RECKONED WH THE PERSIAN GULF WAR. OR HOW WE RELY ON MICIANS AND ARTISTS TO GUI THROUGH MOURNG AFTER TRAGEDY, WHETHER ’S THE STAR-STUDD NCERTS PUT ON AFTER 9/11 OR MIL TRIBUT TO FALLEN HERO OVER THE YEARS.THE CHOICE OF LADY GAGA TO SG “THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER” AT THE GURATN OF BIN AND HARRIS, THE FIRST BLACK PERSON, WOMAN OF ASIAN SCENT, AND FIRST WOMAN TO BE ELECTED VICE-PRINT, MATTERED—JT AS THE STG OF JENNIFER LOPEZ TO SG HER, UM, UNIQUE MASH-UP OF “THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND” AND “AMERI THE BETIFUL” MATTERED. EVEN GARTH BROOKS, WHO PLEDGED THAT HIS PERFORMANCE OF “AMAZG GRACE” WAS NOT MEANT TO BE NSTED AS “A POLIL STATEMENT,” ACTUALLY MATTERED.STANDG NFINT ONT OF THE DOORS AND ARCH THAT WERE STORMED, SLED, VANDALIZED, AND OCCUPIED BY VLENT SURRECTNISTS ATTEMPTG TO UPEND MOCRACY JT TWO WEEKS BEFORE, LADY GAGA BELTED THE NATNAL ANTHEM, HER VOICE CHANNELG THE SHRIEKS AND CRI OF A NATN SPERATE TO EXORCISE THE HATE, HARM, DIVISN, AND EVIL OF THE LAST FOUR YEARS.HER ENTRANCE WAS, OF URSE, DRAMATIC. THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE ASKG FOR WHEN YOU BOOK LADY GAGA TO MAKE AMERIN HISTORY.HER HAIR WAS TWISTED TO BRAIDS. THE DOVE BROOCH EMBELLISHED AN OTHERWISE ELEGANT AND STAID BLACK TOP, WH HER OVERSIZED RED SKIRT RIVALG THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE CAPOL ROTUNDA. IT WAS HER TAKE ON “SUAL PROFSNAL BUT YOU WILL BE HISTORY BOOKS FOR THE RT OF TIME” UNRSTATEMENT. IN OTHER WORDS, IS THE OUTF YOU CHOOSE WHEN YOU ARE THE STMENT SELECTED TO TMPET THAT MOCRATIC ARMAGEDDON HAS BEEN NARROWLY AVOID.SHE WAS CLEAR-VOICED, HER BELTG AS POWERFUL AND ROBT AS ’S EVER BEEN. SHE OPTED FOR A DIFFERENT ARRANGEMENT OF THE SONG THAN HER PRECSORS, WHICH WAS FTG AS THIS IS LADY GAGA, BUT NOT ONE THAT WAS DISTRACTG, OVER-PLITED, OR EVEN—AND THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART—ALL THAT DULGENT.HER PERFORMANCE WAS MPY, CHOREOGRAPHED WH EXUBERANT GTICULATN AND APPROPRIATE, ALMOST CHEY GRANUR. ON THE LYRIC “THE FLAG WAS STILL THERE,” HER VOICE CLIMBED THE SLE AS IF HAD JT BEEN EED, ECHOG THE SPIR OF SO MANY ON THIS NEW DAY AND NEW ADMISTRATN. SHE GTURED ENTHIASTILLY AT THE AMERIN FLAG BEHD HER AND SANG TO . THERE WAS GTO! GRAVAS! GOOFS!THE BT PART WAS THAT YOU ULD TELL HOW MUCH MEANT TO HER, BEE SHE KNEW HOW MUCH MEANT TO ALL OF . SGG AS LOUD AS I’VE EVER HEARD HER, SHE PERFORMED WH THAT AFOREMENTNED, ELIVE FEELG: PRI. WHEN WAS OVER, SHE WAS PRACTILLY RADIANT WH . LADY GAGA, WH THAT RENDN OF “THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER,” SANG OVER THE BRIDGE, BACK TO A POT OF FEELG THAT—PROUD—ONCE AGA.IS TOO MUCH TO SAY THAT WAS THE GAYT THG TO EVER HAVE HAPPENED AT A PRINTIAL GURATN? WH RPECT TO ARETHA FRANKL’S BOW HAT, I WOULD SAY ’S NOT.THE PERFORMERS FOR OCSNS LIKE THIS ARE CHOSEN BEE OF WHAT THEY REPRENT AND, MORE SPECIFILLY, WHO THEY REPRENT. FOR THIS PARTICULAR GIG, THEY ARE HISTORILLY CHOSEN BEE OF THE AMERI THEY REPRENT, SOMETHG THAT’S EASY TO GGE BY THE SELECTN OF LOPEZ AND HER TI TO THE LATX MUNY AND BROOKS, WH HIS ROLE UNG THE UNTRY’S WARRG IALS.GAGA, OF URSE, REPRENTS THE UNUAL. THERE WAS MORE THAN ONE JOKE MA THAT THE CAPOL WAS GOG TO TRANSFORM TO A SPACHIP AS SHE H HER LAST NOT AND TRANSPORT HER BACK TO HER HOME PLA.BUT SHE ALSO REPRENTS THE MISTREATED, THE MISUNRSTOOD, AND THE MARGALIZED.SHE IS AN IDOL AND A BEAN OF LIGHT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY, AND HER PRENCE ON THE CAPOL STEPS WEDNDAY MORNG SPOKE TO THE FACT THAT, FALLY, THIS IS THEIR—OUR—AMERI, TOO.IT IS ONLY THE LAST NE YEARS THAT THERE HAS BEEN A PRINT THE WHE HOE WHO OPENLY SUPPORTED GAY MARRIAGE AND EQUAL RIGHTS FOR THE MUNY. AND JT 18 MONTHS AFTER THE HISTORIC SUPREME COURT LG LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, OBAMA WAS OUT OF OFFICE. THE TMP ADMISTRATN ROLLED BACK PROTECTNS FOR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY UP UNTIL THE MAN’S LAST DAY OFFICE. TO SOME, OM HER LOOK TO HER EARNT AND DIGNIFIED ARRANGEMENT, GAGA’S PERFORMANCE MAY HAVE SEEMED TRADNAL. TO THOSE OF SPOKE TO, WAS POSIVELY RENEGA. SHE WAS SGG FOR . IF YOU KNOW LADY GAGA’S STORY AND PECIALLY IF YOU KNOW THE HISTORY OF HER WORKG RELATNSHIP WH BIN—THE TWO HAVE TEAMED OVER THE YEARS TO RAISE AWARENS ABOUT SEXUAL ASSLT—YOU’LL KNOW WHAT MEANT TO WATCH HER SG AS A SURVIVOR. THAT’S A LOAD WORD AT THIS POT OUR NATN. AND SPEAKS TO THE IMPORTANCE OF MIC AT THE TIM, AND THE NECSY TO WANT TO SAY SOMETHG WH THE CHOIC OF WHO IS GOG TO SG AND WHAT THEIR VOICE WILL MEAN.IN NTRAST TO THE NONSENSIL AND POTLS LP AT THE PRE-GURATN NCERT, TUDAY’S COVID MEMORIAL, THE FIRST PUBLIC MOURNG OF THE LIV LOST TO THE PANMIC, WAS MA ALL THE MORE PROFOUND BEE OF THE MIC CHOIC.THERE, YOLANDA ADAMS PERFORMED A WRENCHG RENDN OF “HALLELUJAH,” ECHOG THE TLE WORD SEEMGLY ENDLS, WRENCHG FASHN, EACH REPETN BURROWG EVEN EPER TO THE PA AND THE REALY OF THE LOSS. AND NURSE LORI MARIE KEY SANG “AMAZG GRACE,” HER RAW, GOD-TOUCHED VOICE LIFTG OUR HEARTS WH EACH NOTE TO A POT OF MAYBE, FALLY BEG ABLE TO FEEL THARSIS.LEADG UP TO THE SWEARG- CEREMONY’S START, MSNBC HOST JOY REID REMD, “THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY BOYTT OF THE TMP PRINCY IS ONE OF THE FEW THGS HE TOOK TO HEART THAT THGS WEREN’T GOG TOO WELL.” HE WAS SPERATE FOR THEIR APPROVAL, AND STEAD HE WAS EMBRACED BY THE EVANGELIL WORLD THAT SPISED HOLLYWOOD AND WHAT STANDS FOR. BUT WE MAY HAVE FOTTEN WHAT A POIGNANT LOSS WAS NOT TO BE ABLE TO TURN TO OUR LEARS TO CHAMPN ARTS AND PERFORMERS TO SHEPHERD THROUGH THOSE HARD YEARS.WE ARE A UNTRY THAT HAS ENDURED SUCH TRYG, HARMFUL TIM THAT THERE IS A TEMPTATN TO LOOK EPER TO EVERYTHG AND ANYTHG HAPPENG ON INGURATN DAY FOR MEANG: A SIGN OF TIM TO E, OR A SIGN OF WHO WE MAY ONE DAY BE AGA. IT’S A NATURAL EXERCISE, EVEN IF, TO SOME, MIGHT SEEM LIKE A STRETCH. BUT RT ASSURED THERE IS NOTHG THAT LADY GAGA DO THAT IS NOT RIPE FOR SUCH PARSG, PECIALLY WHEN SHE’S SGG FOR A NEW AMERI. KEV FALLON

” But now, seems, Mother Monster has lated her own ambns for a queerer world: she has managed to turn an epic pillar of queer culture – a classic mil movie whose ma character has been portrayed by both Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand – to an even gayer film. When the vio for her send sgle “Poker Face” beat out Beyoncé’s “Sgle Ladi” and won Internatnal Vio of the Year at Canada’s MuchMic Vio Awards, Gaga gave a short, sweet, and scere acceptance speech: she gave thanks “to God and the gays, ” sendg the LGBTQ muny a sign of what was to e. In that gaylaxy far, far away, when same-sex unns still felt like an impossible dream, and LGBTQ Amerins uldn’t serve openly the ary, the then-23-year-old overt-the-top sger went to Washgton, D.

She then sang John Lennon’s classic “Image, ” acknowledgg the mic dtry’s “tremendo amount of acmodatn of homophobia.

For the much anticipated follow-up to her massively succsful first stud album The Fame (and s subsequent multi-Grammy-wng reissu), Gaga stck a bs al wh Target: An exclive edn of her sophomore album, Born This Way, wh remix and addnal stud cuts, to be sold exclively by the retailer. “Part of my al wh Target is that they have to start affiliatg themselv wh LGBT chary groups and beg to reform and make amends for the mistak they’ve ma the past… our relatnship is hged upon their reform the pany to support the gay muny and to reem the mistak they’ve ma supportg those groups, ” she told Billboard an terview Febary, 2011. 1 sgle was “the new ‘I Will Survive’, ” he told Entertament Weekly, “the new gay anthem.

LADY GAGA TALKS IMPORTANCE OF PRONOUNS, GAY PRI DURG ROG SPEECH

It stantly beme a favore Gay Pri classic: “No matter gay, straight, or bi/ Lbian, transgenr life/ I’m on the right track, baby/ I was born to survive” were words that beme as rad mastream as possible.

LADY GAGA SPEAKS OUT ON SUPREME COURT ABORTN RULG AT WASHGTON D.C. CONCERT: ‘THEY’D BETTER NOT MS WH GAY MARRIAGE’

When the Born This Way Ball Tour h Rsia at the end 2012, Gaga was acced of breakg the cy’s anti-gay propaganda law. Ls than a year later, Rsia’s lower hoe of parliament passed a siar law that crimalized any form of pro-gay speech or public display of affectn anywhere the untry, and Mother got pissed. One every five homels youth the muny intify themselv as gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr, ” she said.

“May I have that gay pri flag?

” She then picked up and held like a trophy as more than 15, 000 ncertgoers screamed pure gay ecstasy at the Rogers Arena Vanuver, Canada. "Beg famo was very strange, and 's the gay men my life that helped me to bee a woman, " Gaga said on Untucked, a web seri that go behd the scen of VH1's realy drag petn.

LADY GAGA FENDS GAY MARRIAGE, ABORTN RIGHTS AT U.S. TOUR OPENER: 'I PRAY THAT THIS UNTRY WILL SPEAK UP'

""I'm not a gay woman, you know? "I hope you know that myself and so many are your alli, " she told a mourng LGBT muny, a clear embrace of the "ally" sayg she is "not a gay woman" on Drag Race, Gaga is further cloudg the issue.