Lady Gaga
There should be no doubt about Gaga – she is one of the strongest supporters for the LGBTQ+ community. From taking part in National Equality Marches and wearing Alexander McQueen designs to protest against Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (a former policy that banned open homosexuality), to making history with ‘Born This Way’ (2011), which Sir Elton John dubbed ‘the new gay album’, Gaga does her upmost to fight for equal LGBTQ+ rights and recognition.
In 2019, the Oscar and Grammy-award winner took a rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots and said that she would ‘take a bullet’ for the LGBTQ+ community.
‘True love – true, true love – is when you would take a bullet for someone, and you know that I would take a bullet for you any day of the week,’ she said during her speech, wearing a rainbow-colored outfit.
‘This community has fought and continued to fight a war of acceptance, a war of tolerance, and the most relentless bravery. You are the definition of courage – do you know that?’
On winning the International Video of the Year Award in 2009, she sent her thanks ‘to God and the gays’ and in her cover interview with Out magazine the same year she said: ‘I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream.
‘It’s not an underground tool for me. It’s my whole life. So, I always sort of joke the real motivation is to just turn the world gay.’
In 2013, she performed in Russia and spoke out against the country’s ‘gay propaganda’ laws, telling the crowd: ‘Tonight this is my house, Russia. You can be gay in my house.’
