Lady Gaga Ends Deal Wh Target Over Its Support of Anti-Gay Groups – Rollg Stone

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LADY GAGA ENDS DEAL WH TARGET OVER ITS SUPPORT OF ANTI-GAY GROUPS

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.

” 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. 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.

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. (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.

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. (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. 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.