Pop singer Lady Gaga wants her fans to
know she's off-the-charts gay and her advocacy is genuine.
The 25-year-old Lady Gaga continues to
attract fans at a rapid pace – she became the first artist to hit
10 million Twitter followers this week – but while talking heads
debate whether her high-profile gay advocacy helps or hurts her
popularity, Lady Gaga isn't holding back.
In
an interview with the U.S. edition of Metro
newspapers, which includes the markets of New York, Philadelphia
and Boston, the Poker Face
singer insisted she's “off-the-charts gay.”
While discussing an interview where a
foreign journalist asked, “How queer are you?” Lady Gaga
suggested she was actually being asked, “How gay are you?”
“I'm off-the-charts gay! [Laughs]
But that's not quite the way to put it. As if you are or you're not.
It's not mathematical. It's this completely subjective overarching
aesthetic called life and you have this huge palate to paint from and
you're asking me, 'How queer are you?' That's just one palate. It's
like I say so many things in that song [Born this Way]. But
the first thing everyone comes back with is, gay, gay, gay. Are you
gay? Is the song gay? And you're missing what life is offering you
because you're hinged on one word. Look into yourself. Are you born
to be brave? To rebuke all of these labels?”
“My social involvement for equality
and gay rights,” she added, “as well as my music, is completely
genuine. But I don't think I ever want everyone to ever know fully
who or what I am. Part of what I'm doing is asking you to look
inside yourself, to ask yourself questions.”