Back in 2012, Madonna performed in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, where she made an impassioned speech supporting the LGBTQ community in a nation where homosexuality has been criminalized. “I made this speech at a concert in St.
Petersburg 8 years ago,” she wrote in a Twitter post on Tuesday, along with a video of her speech. RELATED: Madonna Spends Thanksgiving With Homeless LGBT Youth: ‘Everyone Deserves To Be Loved’ “I was fined 1 million dollars by the government for supporting the Gay community,” she continued, adding, “I never paid.” “We want to fight for the right to be free, to be who were are,” she told the crowd as they enthusiastically chanted her name and held up rainbow signs. “It’s a very strange time in the world,” she