Lady Gaga Defends Marriage Equality at D.C. Concert
Lady Gaga kicked off the U.S. leg of her Chromatica Ball tour with a message for the United States Supreme Court. “They better not try to mess with gay marriage in this country!” she said to loud applause from the crowd during a concert at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.
on Monday night, according to a video posted to Twitter.The pop star made the comment just prior to performing longtime LGBTQ anthem “Born This Way,” a song with lyrics celebrating and uplifting various LGBTQ identities.
In another video appearing on social media, Gaga, a longtime advocate for the LGBTQ community and a bisexual woman herself, said that the song “may not be the national anthem, but it’s OUR national anthem,” before launching into her performance of the iconic song.Gaga’s comments come in response to the fallout from a consequential decision in June, in which the conservative majority on the nation’s highest court overturned Roe v.
Wade, the 1973 case that established federal protections for abortion rights, ruling that the issue of regulating reproductive health care decisions should be left to individual states.In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas specifically mentioned Obergefell v.
