Gaga Takes On DADT (VIDEO)

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Gaga Takes On DADT
Posted by Chris Geidner on September 12, 2010 9:49 PM | Permalink

While President Obama may not be talking about it, Lady Gaga tonight is addressing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" at MTV's Video Music Awards -- having been escorted to the awards by four clients of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. Three of the four were discharged under DADT -- David Hall, a former U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt.; Mike Almy, former U.S. Air Force Major; and Stacy Vasquez, former U.S. Army Sgt. First Class. The fourth is Katie Miller, the West Point cadet in the top of her class who resigned from the academy in August in protest of DADT.

Gaga first addressed the issue on the "White Carpet" before the awards (below), but continued to address the policy and her guests inside the awards, acknowledging -- while accepting the award for Best Female Video -- "the discharged soldiers that came with me tonight. I love you."

The SLDN website calls on people to "Join Lady Gaga and Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and focuses attention to three "key" senators: Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Republican John McCain (R-Ariz.), who threatened prior to the August congressional recess to hold up consideration of DADT repeal.

The move at the VMAs comes on the heels of Gaga visiting with several former servicemembers before her concert in D.C. this past week.

Gaga also was talking directly to her fans on Twitter about the message:

Silks, fabrics, shoes + jewels, fashion dreams + breaking rules. Real heroes on my arm, tonight, is for us monsters, and our fight. X

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1. Video Blocked by Viacom,, go figure.