Lady Gaga is a very powerful advocate for the LGBT community. Since the start of her career and throughout her rise to fame she has supported the LGBT community. In this clip she is challenging Obama and his administration to fulfill the promises that they made to the LGBT community. She also promises that she will not tolerate misogynistic or homophobic behavior in the music industry at all.
During the summer I attended the Lady Gaga after party in the Houston House of Blues that took place after her concert. While I was at the party I noticed that there was a large number of LGBT individuals. I then realized that Lady Gaga has a huge number of LGBT fans. This is because Lady Gaga is so accepting and respectful of the LGBT community and is a bisexual herself. She has supported the LGBT community since the birth of her career becoming one of the most important advocates for it.
In fact, Lady Gaga hosted an event back in January 16 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This event was called Hands Up for Marriage Equality and its purpose was to support same-sex marriage to be legalized in the United States. Check out more things that she’s done in this article.
None could name any other major pop star, or pop culture personality right now, who they could say the same about – any other artist who could stand accused on the grounds that they were just too impossibly inventive
Camille Paglia has already been to work on some of these questions in a piece in the Sunday Times last weekend...And what seemed to irk her most was what she considers Gaga's fundamental lack of sex appeal. "Gaga isn't sexy at all," she wrote. "She's like a gangly marionette or plasticised android. How could a figure so calculated and artificial, so clinical and strangely antiseptic, so stripped of genuine eroticism have become the icon of her generation? Can it be that Gaga represents the exhausted end of the sexual revolution? . . . Marlene and Madonna gave the impression, true or false, of being pansexual. Gaga, for all her writhing and posturing, is asexual."
What was interesting about Paglia's article was its implication that, in order to be a star – and particularly a female star – you have to be sexually appealing. All of which apparently ignored the fact that, for her fans, one of Gaga's key attractions is precisely her dismissal of traditional, feminine sex appeal, of the need to be charming, of the values and aesthetic of other female singers: the ripe, pert bodies, the pretty, familiar costumes.
She has often been compared with a drag queen and, in many ways, this seems apt. Part of the brilliance and beauty of drag, of course, is that it can potentially expose sex roles – most often femininity – as a performance. A drag queen in enormous false eyelashes, teetering heels, a tight dress, heavy makeup, a voluminous wig, talon-like nails, is mimicking a woman, while underlining that what's expected of women is in no way natural. With her increasingly bizarre getups, Gaga does the same."
