It used to be Lady Gaga couldn’t stop talking about just dancing. Then it was the paparazzi. And soon enough, her telephone. Now, it’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and while she isn’t lip-syncing, she’s surely reading her lines as she pleads with senators to approve the Defense Department’s budget bill on Tuesday. Fraud!!
Update: I normally don’t bother mentioning this, but apparently it’s necessary: The above is sarcasm, and we all know how great it is that Lady Gaga has become such a queer advocate. And for the record, I can’t memorize two lines without looking at my notes, let alone 6+ minutes.
Chazonator
While Lady GaGa may be increasing awareness through her freak show, she’s the least of our worries. Breaking News! Wayne Besen, founder of TWO (Truth Wins Out), a self professed gay activist, has been caught publicly bashing a gay man, and making fun of mental illness. I’m calling him out on it, but he hasn’t grown the balls to respond. Here’s the link to the blog that explains all the facts, and includes links to his statements.
http://chazonator.blogspot.com/2010/09/gay-on-gay-hate-takes-two-truth-wins.html
Law
How is it fraud to read from a script? I would venture to say almost all people who record videos for the senate have a script before recording.
Xzaviar Boston
REALLY QUEERTY. In a time when the LGBT community has so few champions, you choose to criticize one of our most famous. So what if her message is scripted. At least shes trying to do something to help our service men and woman serve more openly. I have let a lot go in the past with you snotty remarks about people who truly try and help our community. But this little monster says screw you. Your doing us as much help as Fred Phelps. Your articles are corrosive and you will no longer be apart of my daily Queer News!
Xzaviar B.
Former Reader
Josh Appelbaum
She actually says “RedOne” who is the producer of the song “Just Dance”, not “red wine” smart ass.
I suppose every politician and speech-giver in the world must be frauds because they ALL READ FROM SCRIPTS. I am not even a Lady Gaga fan and this is by far the dumbest and most ill-conceived blog post I have ever seen in my life!
DR
Complaining because she may have been reading off of a script?!? Seriously?
She is getting people to pick up the phone and make phone calls. While I at times find the publicity surrounding the “GaGa phenomenon” irritating, here she gets a pass. She has inspired young men and women to call their leaders, their leaders are responding. She gets a pass on this one, and Queerty ought to be ashamed for calling her out for reading from a script, just like the most seasoned of politicians.
I really hope the last part was sarcastic or tongue-in-cheek, otherwise you really picked the wrong battle.
Chris
that bitch!
you know Julianne Moore was ad-libbing EVERYthing she said in her ad!
jp
Seriously? The PRESIDENT reads from a script each and every time he speaks in public. What the F do you expect her to do? She’s got a message and she’s clearly stating her POV. We are lucky to have the most famous pop star in the world right now speaking on our behalf. You may be tired of her as an artist, but as an advocate you can’t deny she’s on our side and is fighting our fight. You are hiding behind your URL and attacking someone who is on our side.
You should simply remove your text and leave her youTube up and viewable. Maybe you won’t lose your entire fan base.
Nightstalker
Smarmy and idiotic. Are you now having trolls write posts as well as comments? Wait, don’t answer that.
CHIP1218
I hope Lady Gaga realizes that Sen. Gillenbrand was an original co-sponsor of the DADT Repeal legislation, and Sen. Schumer signed on shortly after that. Those in New York State are blessed – you have two Senators willing to support this legislation. It will be the States such as: Maine with two Moderate Republican Senators, Massachusetts, with Scott Brown, Ohio and New Hampshire with retiring moderate Republican Senators, and Florida with Charlie Crist’s personal assistant serving as Senator that calls from constituents will make the most impact. We need at least 2, maybe 3 of these Senators to side with the Democrats to block a filibuster.
If you have friends and family in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Florida – have them call their Republican Senators and beg of them to let DADT Repeal come to the floor and finally put and end to an unconstitutional and anti-equality law.
Val
@Xzaviar Boston:
I’m out too. I’ve had one too many naked men show up in my RSS feed at work (can’t we put those below the jump??) and while the editorial has always been a little too bitchy for my taste, this feels like a new low to me.
CaseyS
What a truly PATHETIC non-story this is.
FFS Queerty – stop being so utterly moronic and petty.
mb
Honestly….i know she’s just a pop star and all that, but her audience is clearly huge and she’s speaking for us on every other public opportunity she has. What the fuck are you bitching about? Complain about our god damned elected representatives! This is supposed to be their fucking job!
Marcus M.
The biggest trolls on this site are Queerty themselves.
Andrew
I am beginning to think Queerty is plain out trying to complain about everything, good or bad. Apparently those at Queerty are in a dark place, while the rest of us are trying our hardest to stay positive. Thanks Queerty for trying to kill every ounce of hope.
thedarkchariot
Agree with all the comments above. Pitiful, Queerty.
Aside: She does not lip sync.
dukeofhurl
That’s it. I’m never coming back here again. Between your pathetic attempts at writing articles that are grammatically correct and your corrosive editorializing, I’m done.
Chazonator
We gays need to collectively decide who is representing us, and not fund anyone or organization that doesn’t do so to our satisfaction. Some of the biggest voices of our movement are actually harming us. TWO, Truth Wins Out, founder Wayne Besen is a perfect example of this, after I busted his balls on bashing a fellow gay man on the right wing hate site he claimed to be monitoring. Not in my name bitch! Not in my fucking name!
http://www.chazonator.com
Matt
Fail, Queerty…fail.
mike
I could not agree more with the previous posts. How can you bitch about Lady Gaga when she’s one of the few who speaks out in our favor?!?!
I wish Queerty was so actively engaged in the repeal of DADT and fighting for equality as hard as she does.
Shame on you, Queerty! That’s it! I’m out!!!
Jesus
We aren’t going to get anywhere until we stop making pointless attacks and people that unconditionally support our community. She is arguably the most famous woman on the planet at the moment and she’s using her power to reach MILLIONS who otherwise wouldn’t be involved in this process. For a website that thinks every time Kim Zolciak is in public or George Michael gets arrested is news, it’s odd seeing Queerty constantly attack people that help us and actually matter.
Blake J
You may not like her music; but do not question her on the support of the ‘queer’ community.
I can think of few other rising public figure that devotes anything but the infrequent sound bite to the ‘queer’ community.
Steven Peters
Cleary she’s not an actress and can’t read a script well, like most people on TV can or in the media. But her message should be applauded and NOT made a caddy headline about how it’s scripted, but rather should join her in her fight.
Is it that you just want to stir a heated response by your caddy headline? Is it that you have such ill feelings towards Lady GaGa, that you’ll stoop to ‘trying’ to make her seems less than human?
I never was a fan of hers, however seeing this video shows her humanity and acceptance of those that do not have the opportunities as she, and is victimized by trying to no less serve their country.
What legacy shall we leave behind for those which espouses intolerance and judgment of those trying to better the world around us?
Queerty, what is “Fraud” is your contempt at demonizing her, and in doing so her message. Rather than showing your support for her and give her a headline that backs the so called stance that Queerty has made in the past of DADT, you’ve lowered yourself into the least common denominator–hypocrites!
You may try to shoot the messenger, as is the headline, but hopefully by doing so, you haven’t dissuaded those who see and hear her message that supports all gays who serve(d) proudly in the military.
stephen
So you’re calling her a fraud because she reads from cue cards? FAIL
swarm
Well I’m a Gaga detractor and even I don’t mind the scripting. It’s preferable to her faux bi nonsense. And helpful.
MM
Gaga is just another publicity whore.
kityglitr
Wow. Should I be surprised that so many of us don’t understand sarcasm? I don’t think Queerty was really bashing La Gaga, y’all. Chill. Out.
Samantha
what the hell is someone supposed to DO to get queerty’s blessing?
truthteller
Queerty reeks of internalized homophobia.
You have constantly attacked those in the public eye who are fighting for your rights; Dan Choi, kathy Griffith, and now GaGa.
While these people are out there, telling everyone you are a whole human being, who common decency demands, should be treated equal, you repay them by bashing and ridiculing them.
Lady GaGa has untold influence on her fans and her speech does move them to take action, but you would rather she memorize it, in order to meet your high integrity standards. That’s an ironic twist. You are acting like an enemy of the gay community!
Get therapy you homophobes!
Anita
I’ve read Queerty for a couple years without commenting but like so many others I’m compelled to ask just what bug crawled up your shorts last nigh? Lady Gaga read from a prepared script that offered a powerful and poignant call ro end “Dont Ask, Dont tell.” Wow. Great journalism. You have really exposed her. No wait. You’ve exposed yourselves and dearhearts, it wasn’t pretty. Now, go take a nap because it seems you need one.
Jeremy Faulkner
I applaud Lady Gaga for her support for equality. As a professional, if I am going to speak. I usually don’t wing it. I practice. I have a script. Thank you Lady Gaga for addressing a social issue with professionalism. Qweerty: be careful how you criticize our supporters. You are wrong; Lady Gaga is not a fraud.
Jeremy Faulkner
I applaud Lady Gaga for her support for equality. As a professional, if I am going to speak I usually don’t wing it. I practice. I have a script. Thank you Lady Gaga for addressing a social issue with professionalism. Qweerty: be careful how you criticize our supporters. You are wrong; Lady Gaga is not a fraud.
missanthorpe
Yes, Lady Gaga is the first person to read a speech off a piece of paper, iphone or teleprompter*. No one has ever done that before, what a fraud!
*Well, except for Daniel Webster, Winston Chruchill,Jack Kennedy, Elenore Roosevelt, etc.
Mike
Too bad I forgot to check the number of followers on Queertys’ twitter account. I wonder how many people stopped following just because of this ignorant post.
This is definitely the last time I will be reading Queertys’ stuff.
There are better blogs out there that have more substance and less bitching.
Queerty staff, have a good life and grow up! Goodbye…
Damien
Oh, aren’t you smart Queerty!
Kev C
Worst episode of the Outer Limits ever.
Jimmy
You are ridiculous QUEERTY, I’ve had it with this website. Your choice to criticize one of the FEW celebrities who. . . . .oh nevermind, you’re not going to get it anyway.
Grow up, I feel as though this website is run by a bunch of immature children who want nothing more than to have something to say about EVERYTHING!
I will not be coming back to this site, you ashame me!
truthteller
Add me to the list of people fleeing from this disgusting rag of a blog.
This is my last post…hello towleroad and boxturtlebulletin.
Enjoy your miserable stupidity, Queerty!
Kev C
I don’t really understand the bitchiness towards Queerty, one of the few gay blogs with a sense of humor. Lady Gaga is a public figure and a heterosexual woman. Most of her fans are heterosexuals, in fact. If you like straight women so much, what are you doing at a gay blog in the first place? If anyone should grow up, it’s her cultish and overly sensitive fans. The woman wears a meat dress, but her fans are humorless blockheads.
Kris
Whatever happened to doing a bit of research before writing? Did you know that GaGa donates copious amounts of money to an organization that helps shelter LGBT homeless youth who’ve been kicked out of there homes simply for being gay. Don’t be lazy queerty. Google isn’t that hard to use.
Kev C
@Kris: Actually Lady Gaga has donated a total of $20,000 to the Virgin-Mobile RE-Generation program. Originally she committed to donating $25,000, but reduced that to $20k. The program raises money for homeless youth in general. About 90% of the homeless youth they “help” are heterosexual.
A single Gaga concert grosses between $300k to $3 million. They have also donated concert tickets to contest winners. Homeless gay youth may enter these contests, using their Virgin-Mobile phones!
Thank you for using Google.
damon459
I hate to say this but I think Perez hilton is now running Queerty I expected better from the site who’s only agenda is the “queer” one if I want trash I can go to perezhilton.com and get way better garbage. We as a community need to have some common goals and the only one this site now seems to have is acting like another stereotypical bitchy queen.
thedarkchariot
I want writers of Queerty to respond. Stand up for your own article. Goddamnit, Queerty, you do not listen to feedback. We do not want to see you bashing people who speak out for us. We do not want to see vapid Davey Wavey shit. We do not want stupid articles just geared towards increasing your hit count. We want intelligent, humorful takes on news relating to gay life. That’s what we want Queerty.
Pitiful.
san
sarcasm? do you mind making it more obvious next time, because now you just look like you are trying to hard to cover your ass.
L.
@Samantha: Get Davey Wavey to f*ck them?
Chazonator
I think all these overly sensitive, bitchy queens need to back the he’ll off. Writing Queerty off for saying what were all thinking is just ignorant. Gaga is making a fortune off the controversy. You bitches moan about drag queens at parades. and then jump behind the first drag queen w a vag. Gays need to question anyone who claims to represent us. I don’t want Alexandro to get amnesty, but Gaga does. Don’t be sheep bitches. Follow reality and cut Queerty some slack for fuck’s sake.
Xzaviar Boston
@Chazonator: Its not just Queerty’s stance on GAGA. Its there lack luster attitude towards any one who tries and shines a “positive” or “informative” light on LGBT subject matter. They just keep looking for someone to knock down so they can get more hits from people that enjoy cutting others down. I’ve said nothing of the readers but you enjoy calling us “overly sensitive, bitchy queens”, again. Not the person(GAGA), but the subject matter(DADT) is what’s truly important here. So cutting Queerty some slack is not on my list of things to do until they begin to take responsibility for blogs and what message they send out. We wonder why we were treated with such inequality, its because even in our own “community” we have cancerous individuals that only seek to tear us down from inside.
Xzaviar Boston
PS Queerty – I’ve put my name on every post. Where’s yours?
jason
Lady Gaga is hindering our cause, not helping it. Do you seriously think that Congressmen look on her as someone who’s important? LOL. One day she’s saying how DADT is bad and the next she’s walking through New York’s airport in a bikini and strange shoes. This is not a paradigm-shifting woman.
If you misguided gays want to believe she’s important, go right ahead. You’re totally deluded. No wonder you haven’t even been able to achieve marriage rights in New York, supposedly liberal New York. You’re too busy genuflecting at the altar of the trivial.
Chazonator
So Xzaviar, you’re saying that we should all agree that a drag queen with a vag, whom the majority of American’s don’t take seriously is the best voice for our equality? I love GaGa. I am a big fan of her songs, but when you show up dressed as a clown, the message is going to get lost on mainstream America. I also don’t care for the way GaGa is tying LGBT rights with those of illegal aliens who break the law to come here. Gays don’t have to support illegal immigration just because the biggest queen in the world wants us to. DADT is not going to be affected by anything GaGa says. She’s a pop star. Don’t give her more credit than she deserves, just because you like her songs. I’m not. And as for Queerty, well, I’m in the same boat they are. I have over 43,500 myspace friends who support LGBT equality. Am I supposed to kiss all their asses and say everything they want me to say, in order to keep them coming back to my site? I wouldn’t have gotten this far as an equality activist if I had ever been afraid to speak my mind. We can all agree to disagree, without beating up Queerty over one article. And if you’ve read multiple articles that have you convinced that this site is hiding an agenda to contradict our movememt, then what the fuck do you keep coming here for to begin with? That’s the contradiction. Nobody here is saying that GaGa can’t sing. We’re just questioning whether her brand of “freak” is really the most affective way to represent our equality. I believe that Queerty has that right, and you can move on to another article, or site if you disagree, but don’t bash Queerty for pointing out that GaGa is fallable, it’s a fact, we all are. The problem with our movement is the fact that many self loathing gays don’t think they deserve equality. That’s the issue that truly needs to be addressed. TWO Truth Wins Out is bashing a gay guy on a Christian hate site that they are supposed to be monitoring. I wonder when the LGBT community is going to put these organizations in check that are making us all look bad. Until then, I don’t want to hear anybody talking shit about Queerty. They aren’t bashing anybody, but they’ve sure as hell been bashed, repeatedly in this thread.
ewe
@mike: Goodbye Mike. Googoogaga is a idiot. She herself said something to the effect of being a meaningless pop star. who gives a shit? Do you actually think gay veterans of previous wars give one fuck what this bleached blonde bimbette in her numerous costumes think? Jesus fucking Christ. Grow up. She wants the spotlight AGAIN. Tell me what did that ad of Madonna draped in an American flag decades ago do for anyone? NADA!!!!!!!!!!!! It is theatre and it is using gay people as a prop.
ewe
I have no doubt her gay handlers orchestrated this whole debacle as well as dressing her up in meat to make some analogy that no one is gonna get.
skip
@ewe: For Christ’s sake, you’re like a goddam rabid dog with a bone in its mouth! What crawled up your crunt today?!
Mike
@ewe: Well, not matter what reason it is that motivates Gaga, she’s still on our side. Go right ahead and vote for Christine O’Donnell or Sarah Palin.
Those women use the gays also to gain fame and popularity, but I’ll take Gaga 10.000 times over them. She’s on our side and that’s all that counts.
If she can make a buck off this move: Good for her!!!
Btw, I hate that I signed up for the email alert on this thread…. Peace!
Dan_Zam
@Kev C: BAHAHAHAHA You’re really bad at pop culture. She’s bisexual. Dumb. And I wish no never set my mouse-pointer in Queerty territory ever again. You’re on THAT list.
ewe
@skip: lol you’re funny. thanks for making me laugh. i always make a point to thank anyone who makes me laugh. It really is a healthy gift.
ewe
@Mike: darlin, it isn’t me you need to convince.
Kev C
@Dan_Zam: Maybe she’s bisexual now, or maybe not. But 3 years ago, she was a normally dressed, average looking heterosexual woman who dated guys. Thanks for playing.
amazingpenis
We are SO lucky to have a star like Lady Gaga supporting us.
Liz
@jason: It’s not how the Congressmen look at Lady Gaga that counts here. It’s the fact that as a popular public figure, she’s dragging a large issue out into the open ans saying she’s in support of it being repealed. By doing this, she’s inspiring public support of her opinion. The way the Congressmen see her has nothing to do with it at this point. It’s like the movie stars who openly advocated the world wars and the support of the troops in those wars. The public sees these major figures speaking on an issue, whether in support of it or against it, and they follow their example. While it may be sheep-like, it still happens, and it’s what is happening now. Deal with it.