Lady Gaga Talks About Her Relationship To Gay Fan Base In 'The Advocate'

Chances are, when you're a pop star who wears eye-catching clothing and interesting hair styles, people will take notice. And if you pair that with power anthems about gender bending and religion, people will love you.

For Lady Gaga, reinventing the wheel is paramount. And I think everyone can agree, she has done it, but that's not to say she's completely different from the singing sensations of yesteryear. From Madonna to Liza to Barbara, our pointy-cheeked, meat-wrapped Gaga feels very familiar--at least to one fan base.

In The Advocate's August cover story, Lady Gaga explores her relationship to the homosexual community. Linking our modern songstress to gay-supported singers is interesting, sure, but how Gaga is different is that she herself identifies as a part of that community. The article goes to note Gaga's attraction to other women and when asked which LGBT letter would encapsulate her, she chose 'The b letter.'

There are those out there who believe that the singer's connection is no deeper than business savvy. And Gaga does not take that accusation lying down. She recounts a story where she ran into a gay serviceman at a Best Buy who recounted his trouble with 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'

"And we just held each other and cried...There's no album sale, no number 1, that could compete with this moment. That is what the f**k it's all about. What the f**k it's all about is if I can write one song that could change one person's life."

Comments

[CarrieDN]

03:53 PM on 07/18/2011

I hate it how bisexuals are not taken seriously so often, by both the gay and straight community. Yeah there is a reason for letter B!

[nicole44]

04:23 PM on 07/06/2011

I call BS.

[quicoll]

01:04 PM on 07/06/2011

Her marketing team told her to choose B, her statements are contrived and her behaviour doesn't is not Bi at all.

[Aj Armstrong]

12:35 PM on 07/06/2011

Sexuality is fluid. Sometimes I think we all have a little "bi" in us.

[whowhatwhywherewhen]

12:42 PM on 07/06/2011

NO QUESTION. I'd bet on it.

[MarkInTexas]

11:55 AM on 07/06/2011

Not the first entertainer to claim being gay to attract attention/demographics.

[Jebus Chris]

10:23 AM on 07/06/2011

I would have guessed "T"

[AG creative]

04:01 PM on 07/06/2011

!

[Prince Enki]

09:28 AM on 07/06/2011

She looks like Marilyn Manson, was she born that way too ?

[AG creative]

04:02 PM on 07/06/2011

Your hatred tickles my soul.

[gossipwre]

08:29 AM on 07/06/2011

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Lady Gaga explores her relationship to the homosexual community. Linking our modern songstress to gay-supported singers is interesting, sure, but how Gaga is different is that she herself identifies as a part of that community.

[saltpeter]

07:42 AM on 07/06/2011

Oh great, another straight white female pretending to be gay so that she can add legitimacy to her appropriation of the gay community to write songs. Yet another Madonna strategy. The last thing the gay community needs is another plastic woman making money off their pain. The very least she and Madonna could do is be like Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli and financially support the gay community by marrying one closet case at a time. Gaga, like Madonna, is just using the gay community to make money because they are too shallow to actually write about their own pain.

[MikeDu]

12:51 AM on 07/06/2011

How was the fat actor in 'modern family' described recently? "Gay for Pay". Gaga knows her demographic and she'll 'be' shatever she needs to be to keep the money rolling in.

[Assumed Name]

05:55 AM on 07/06/2011

...my first thought. (When is anything not a gimmick for her?)

[Nicolletta]

07:45 AM on 07/06/2011

She's about as bi as I am, which is not. Madonna was a true bisexual and lived the lifestyle. My best friend is a bisexual and has been since she was old enough to think of people in that way. But because she's stunnnig, so many people around her played the bi card trying to act cool, when all it was was experimentation to be cool and it was over just as quick or just talk.

Gaga will go get a girlfriend now, mark my words. LOL

[Futurama]

10:59 AM on 07/06/2011

Madonna never admitted to being Bi.
Gaga at least has the guts to stand up and declare it officially.

[CherCher]

11:33 PM on 07/05/2011

Here is a devil She-man, hideously looking trying to tell normal people what to do. Twisted attention seeker.

[TheLibraryOfCodex]

01:10 AM on 07/06/2011

What's normal?

[mspink]

11:47 AM on 07/06/2011

Wait--are we talking about Sarah Palin?

[Futurama]

11:24 PM on 07/05/2011

From gaga's interview with B.Walters in December 2009

Barbara Walters: So people thought you were saying you were bi-sexual. Are you bi-sexual?

Lady Gaga: Well, I do, do, I do like women,

Barbara Walters: Do you like men too?

Lady Gaga: Oh, ya, I have only been in love with men, I’ve never been in love with a woman. But that’s really what the song was about. Why, when I was with my boyfriend I was I fantasying about women?

Barbara Walters: Have you had sex with women?

Lady Gaga: Well, my goodness

Barbara Walters: You don’t have to answer me, we can leave it as a big unknown, if you want.

Lady Gaga: I’ve certainly have had sexual relationships with women, yes.

[redsongia]

04:05 PM on 07/06/2011

She was so full of it in that interview. It seemed like she was lying.

[tyrant510]

11:15 PM on 07/05/2011

she does tacky quite well.

[madame fate]

10:36 PM on 07/05/2011

How about LGBUT? Lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, undecided and transgender. It ends up looking like a shortened "largebutt" abbreviation, unfortunately. But I think "undecided" is a valid claim, too.

[tyrant510]

11:17 PM on 07/05/2011

to your point, sometimes, our community is referred to as LGBTQ (for 'questioning')

[madame fate]

11:30 PM on 07/05/2011

Ah! Thank you! I did not know that. I like that better than "U". :)

[FlamingLibrul]

07:54 PM on 07/07/2011

Oh, geez. I actually thought Q stood for Queer. I must be naive that way.

[pdxist]

05:28 AM on 07/06/2011

Then we'd have to get into FABGLITTER and QUILTBAG territory. I wish we could just make "gay" an umbrella term.

[madame fate]

06:58 AM on 07/06/2011

Works for me.

[lalilyman]

10:23 PM on 07/05/2011

then you better keep trying! i have no doubt you sympathize but i think your songs will not/do not change people's feelings about this issue. you haven't even addressed it head on in your music, it's all obscured in pop glam and opaque lyrics.

[Futurama]

11:25 PM on 07/05/2011

How are the lyrics in Born this Way opaque?

[Dylan Jewel]

11:28 PM on 07/05/2011

Actually it does, especially teenagers. There are a lot of teenagers who don't really care about gay people, or don't like them because other people don't, who are easily persuaded. I know of a few specific examples of Lady Gaga changing people's feelings about it.