This year marks the 50th anniversary since the first pride parade following the 1969 riot at New York City’s Stonewall Inn. Since we’re unable to gather in person this June, Queerty is celebrating pride season with our “Moments of Pride” series. We’re looking back through our archives at stories that have moved or inspired us, made us laugh, opened our hearts and minds, or that simply make us proud. Throughout the spring and into summer, we’ll be commenting on these subjects through today’s lens to show just how far we have come in a half-century. Happy pride!
In 2011, Lady Gaga sat down with Anderson Cooper while promoting her album Born This Way. During the interview, Cooper asked Gaga… why she hasn’t put out a press release confirming whether or not she has… a male appendage? Huh?
Evidently, at the time, the singer’s genitals were, for some odd reason, the subject of internet rumors. When asked by Cooper if she was born a “hermaphrodite” (cringe) and had both a penis and a vagina, Gaga replied like a true ally, “Maybe I do. Would it be so terrible?”
And when Cooper questioned why she hadn’t put out a statement clarifying the type of genitalia she had, the singer answered, “Why the hell am I going to waste my time and give a press release about whether or not I have a penis? My fans don’t care and neither do I.”
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Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Wasn’t it yesterday when this story ran? I know the pic is different but still.
Troysky
….it’s run a couple of times by Queerty ((sigh))……
barryaksarben
HOW could ANderson ask that? It is so offensive. These insane conspiracy theorys are a huge part of our problems. Birtherism, QNON, Richard Geres hamster are all LOGIC free and we need to stop seeing them as HARMLESS. THey do harm and we need to squash nonsense when we see it. Or do you believe Ricky Martin had his stomach pumped after fleet week in NYC? Just horrid
justwannaleaveonecomment
Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought QANON was to some extent legitimate. I don’t know all the details but someone associated with high level people was running a child sex trafficking operation and was going to be revealed on July 4th of a certain year, then on July 6 of that year, just two days late, Jeffrey Epstein, someone at least pictured with a lot of high-level people, was arrested for running a child sex trafficking operation. Again, that’s just what I’ve gathered. I never looked that far into it but it’s what I’ve heard.
TMBisAOK
@justwannaleaveonecomment…GTFOH! Quit spreading crap to try to hook people into legitimizing trump cultists’ QANON! They are nothing but a bunch of racist conspiracy theorist nuts! WTF is wrong with you!?
ScottOnEarth
This shows how full of shit Anderson Cooper really is. He projects an ultra-woke persona but, the reality, is he has always been surrounded by privilege on every level. He’s completely disconnected from the real world.
dhmonarch89
Wasn’t he still in the closet then? She should have asked if he was a closet case.
marshal phillips
He was never in the closet; just never made a PR announcement.
Kangol2
Speaking of LadyG, is Queerty going to cover the allegations by porn actor and sex worker Sean Graham and others concerning Senator Lindsey Graham? You could treat it as speculation or even just provide background info, but Heavy and other legit pubs have covered it so it wouldn’t be like Queerty is out on a limb here.
Kangol2
Sorry–Sean Harding–it’s Lindsey Graham that he’s saying patronizes male sex workers.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
(So help me god its times like this that I can just take whomever it was that reported me about things I tried to post with my comments and just slam their faces into a wall and keep smashing it in until they’ve lost all of their front teeth. This is what happens when people and their petty jealousies get the better of them and they ruin things for the good of everyone else in their childish attempts to slap at me).
Folks, I found only two sources that I would deem credible that are carrying this story about Graham being gay and also being blackmailed by Trump (which explains why he went from calling for Trumps head on a platter to kissing his rear end). The most interesting and up to date on is on the DailyMail.co.uk. Newsweek is another credible source but the article dates back to last year and I’d pass on last years news but if thats your cup of tea go for it. I now wonder what does he (Trump) have on Ted Cruz. He too did a flip flop and I said then there had to be more to it than his trying to get reelected. No doubt both of them will have prime speaking spots at the convention as grin like the closeted queens I’ve long suspected they both were.
stanhope
Anderson Cooper is the dick he wasn’t given. Princess Tiny Meat
skyboy63
I love GaGa, I love Anderson. NEXT…….. we have pressing problems in the world and this is Not of them.