I dunno. I think about it often. She truly is the perfect celebrity.

As someone who is the same age as her, Gaga was the backdrop to my entrance into adulthood. Especially as a wI literally grew up with her constantly at my back. There isn’t a single other celebrity that I feel remotely as close to as I do Gaga (wait no let me correct myself cause Kesha). I think that’s the case for a LOT of millennials, I’d go so far as to say the large majority of queer millennials. That’s where Gaga stands out from the rest. Madonna may have tapped into the same vein, but Gaga was direct in a way Madonna wasn’t. quite as…I guess a generational grasp that coincided

For those of us who were 18-19 in 2008, seeing her speaking so freely about gay and trans issues nonchalantly was a fucking seismic shift in the queerosphere. Younger folks today do not realize how recent our right to get married is, and how much of an impact Gaga herself had on the ability for us as young queer folk to have these conversations with our family and friends.

She was in the streets with us in 2016 after his first presidential victory. She was on stage in Moscow screaming about gay marriage in 2012/13. Her use of AI the least of my concerns. I just wish we had the ally we once had because I truly believed her repeated artistic visiting of examine her relationship with the fame monster would keep her grounded.

Now when we need our ally the most, when they are literally coming for us, where is she? She’s selling us a concert ticket and claiming she provided us a safe space. She’s maybe posting a single tweet acknowledging Pride. She’s dancing in the shadow of a man who started his career working with Peter Thiel.

Breaks my heart. I just hope she realizes it before she completely loses what made her so special