Lady Gaga to Senate: 'Repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell''
9/18/2010 01:24:00 AM
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Lady Gaga addressed her "fellow Americans" and the Senate this morning in a dramatic YouTube video as part of her ongoing effort to see the controversial Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, which prevents gays from serving openly in the military, overturned and asked her fans to join her and the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network in repealing it. "It is my belief that no one person is more valuable than another," Gaga says in the over-seven-minute long, black-and-white video, flanked by the American flag.
"Our fight is a continuum of the ever-present equal rights movement," Gaga adds before urging her enormous fan base (a staggering 6.3 million on Twitter and over 18 million on Facebook) to contact their senators and singling out John McCain's moves to stop a vote from taking place.
The call-to-action is perhaps the singer's most forward step into the political arena. In her ever-growing role as an activist, Gaga has partnered with Human Rights Campaign, spoke at the National Equality March Rally, criticized Arizona's discriminatory new immigration enforcement law and, most recently, brought four veterans discharged from the military under DADT as her dates to the Video Music Awards.
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