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January 19, 2013
Lady Gaga hits the big screen this fall

Machete Kills, a film starring the Born This Way pop star, debuts 13 September 2013 

Lady Gaga makes her acting debut this year.

The international pop sensation is playing La Chameleon in Machete Kills, the action thriller sequel to 2010's Machete. The film's director Robert Rodriguez, also directed graphic novel-turned movie Sin City and Once Upon A Time in Mexico.

In July 2012, Lady Gaga unveiled a picture of her character wrapped in a wolf's skin and brandishing a smoking gun.

She recently tweeted about her upcoming role: 'I am so excited. Filming was insane'.

December 21, 2012
Lady Gaga's Born Brave Bus Tour helps fans with mental health problems

Pop superstar to help fans at Lady Gaga's concerts talk about their problems to psychologists

Lady Gaga is taking her anti-bullying charity on tour in an effort to raise awareness of mental health issues.

The US pop star's Born This Way Foundation has teamed up with the National Council for Behavioral Health to set up booths with psychologists for her fans to talk to at her upcoming concerts in North America.

The Born Brave Bus Tour will visit 27 cities in total, reported Digital Spy.

October 2, 2012
Lady Gaga snubs Madonna duet offer

Born This Way singer says she's 'too busy' to perform with pop rival and fellow gay icon Madonna

Lady Gaga has snubbed fellow gay icon Madonna by refusing to perform a duet with her in New York.

The new queen of pop turned down the Material Girl's attempt to mend a rift between the superstars because she was too busy on her Born This Way Ball tour.

'Madonna called to ask Gaga to perform with her at Yankee Stadium,' Gaga's manager Vincent Herbert said, reported The Sun.

'Her manager reached out to us and said Madonna would like Gaga to perform with her.'

August 23, 2012
Gay icon Lady Gaga more powerful than the Queen?

Born This Way singer beats British monarch in Forbes' list of world's most powerful women, along with Ellen DeGeneres and Angelina Jolie

Gay icon Lady Gaga is more powerful than the Queen of England, according to the latest list by Forbes magazine.

The World's 100 Most Powerful Women list puts the Born This Way singer at number 14, while Nobel Peace Prize winning Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II tailed behind at 19 and 26 respectively.

Notable lesbians to also make the cut include US chat show host Ellen DeGeneres at 47 and Ernst & Young’s global vice chair Beth Brooke at number 99.

June 12, 2012
Lady Gaga bites back at Madonna's Born This Way jibes

Gay champion Gaga breaks silence over Madonna feud, speaking out against the queen of pop in New Zealand

Lady Gaga has finally hit back at Madonna's jibes that her gay anthem Born This Way closely resembles the queen of pop's 80s floorfiller Express Yourself.

In a thinly veiled dig at the Material Girl, who has been mocking her talented pop rival by playing a mash-up of their two hits during her MDNA tour, the Poker Face singer told fans during a concert in Auckland, New Zealand, that society had changed in the last 25 years.

May 27, 2012
Threats of 'chaos' cancel Gaga's Indonesia gig

Bisexual pop sensation Lady Gaga has decided to cancel her Indonesian show after threats of 'chaos'

The bisexual pop sensation and LGBTI rights activist, Lady Gaga, has decided to cancel the Indonesian leg of her most recent tour after receiving threats of 'chaos' if she were to enter the world's most populous Muslim country.

In a statement issued to the press, Minola Sebayang, lawyer for the singer's promoters, Big Daddy, said: 'Lady Gaga's management has considered the situation minute to minute, and with threats if the concert goes ahead, Lady Gaga's side is calling off the concert.

May 22, 2012
Lisa goes Gaga and Gaga kisses Marge

Homer's wife and the pop goddess share a lesbian kiss in the last episode of the 2012 series of Simpsons

Lady Gaga is openly bisexual. She loves cartoons as well. So why not to share a lesbian kiss with Marge Simpson?

On the last episode of the 2012 series of The Simpsons on Sunday (20 May), Lady Gaga tries to comfort Marge, who is worried about her daughter Lisa’s depression.

It’s not like the kiss between Britney Spears and Madonna, of course. But it's another breakthrough for the animated series which has featured LGBT issues several times before, most notably a lesbian wedding when Marge's sister Patty came out as gay.

April 23, 2012
Christians pray for disaster to hit Lady Gaga's Seoul concert

Korean Christian groups say they will pray Lady Gaga concert is cancelled so 'homosexuality and pornography will not be spread around the world'

Lady Gaga has arrived in Seoul, South Korea ahead of her concert on Friday (27 April). Around 300 Christians gave her the cold shoulder by praying that her concert will be cancelled.

'We will pray to God that the concert will not be realized so that homosexuality and pornography will not spread around the world,' Kang Ju-Hyun, head of the Alliance for Sound Culture in Sexuality, told AFP.

March 25, 2012
Gaga, Dancing With The Stars and Smash honored at GLAAD media awards

LGBT stars and straight allies descend on New York for first of three-part ceremony

Dancing With The Stars, Lady Gaga and musical drama Smash were among the winners at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation media awards announced yesterday.

The GLAAD awards recognise fair and accurate portrayals of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in film, TV, radio, music, newspapers and blogs.

February 29, 2012
Protesters Gaga over Harvard gay expulsions

Harvard group which seeks degrees for gay students expelled in 1920 will hold rally during Lady Gaga visit today

Protesters are today calling on Lady Gaga to back their campaign for Harvard University to overturn its expulsion of gay students almost a century ago.

In 1920, Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell began a 'secret court' which hunted down gay people studying at the Ivy League college in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

January 29, 2012
LGBT kids let down their Hair for It Gets Better video

Wisconsin LGBT community produce Lady Gaga themed music video for anti-bullying campaign

Colton Boettcher, a young gay man from Madison, Wisconsin (USA) has produced, directed and edited an anti-bullying music video for the It Gets Better Project.

The video, choreographed to Lady Gaga's song Hair, stars members of the local LGBT community.

The YouTube video description explains: 'Hair is about being yourself, being true to who you are; as the song exemplifies, "you are the spirit of your hair, it's all the glory you bare", YOU are your #hair.

January 24, 2012
US troops in Afghanistan record It Gets Better message

Military joins chorus of positive role models a year after repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell

Gay and lesbian troops stationed in Bagram, Afghanistan have recorded an It Gets Better message for the project that aims to give hope to LGBT teenagers.

The message is more poignant considering a little over year ago, before the repeal of the Don't Ask Dont Tell policy, a video like that would have seen the troops who appeared in it dismissed from the army.

January 20, 2012
Lady Gaga launching Born This Way charity

Pop singer's anti bullying charity becomes a reality in February

Pop star Lady Gaga will launch her Born This Way foundation next month.

The Bad Romance hitmaker, who named the charity after her 2011 album, says that the organisation aims to tackle the issue of bullying and promote youth empowerment and equality.

The official launch will be marked by an event held at Harvard University in February.

Gaga (real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) will run the charity with her mother Cynthia Germanotta.

December 13, 2011
Lady Gaga fans want Boy George dead

Singer Boy George’s Twitter comment earns him AIDS insults from Gaga followers

New Romantic androgyny star, Boy George, claims Lady Gaga’s Twitter fans have said they want him to die of AIDS.

British singer-songwriter, DJ and 80s icon George said – in an interview with the London-based HomoLab podcast – that he’d had a spat with the pop queen Gaga’s followers after one of his jokes went wrong on Twitter.