Lady Gaga Joins Yoko Ono for Concert Honoring John Lennon

 Lady Gaga is still in the forefront of everybody's social calendar. She joined other luminaries for Yoko Ono's concert honoring John Lennon. As usual, she was a fashionplate, wearing a see-through cat suit encrusted with crystals and  addressed her recent role in the fight to get "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repealed by singing "Everybody's talking about that defense bill, don't ask don't tell, every person's sanctuary, gays in the military."
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Lady Gaga, Sonic Youth, RZA Join Yoko Ono for Concerts Honoring John Lennon
Rolling Stone Music:

Lady Gaga, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, Perry Farrell and the RZA were among the artists who joined Yoko Ono at her all-star 'We Are Plastic Ono Band' concerts at Los Angeles' Orpheum Theatre this weekend.

The concerts were part of a weeklong celebration leading up to what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday, on October 9th. Gaga performed with the Plastic Ono Band for three songs: She and Ono did a duet of Ono's 'The Sun is Down!' off Ono's recent album, Between My Head and the Sky, then the 1992 track 'It's Been Very Hard,' with Gaga rocking out on piano.

Gaga and the rest of the night's participants — including Sean Lennon, Harper Simon, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mike Watt and guitarist Nils Cline — joined together for a sing-along of the Lennon classic 'Give Peace a Chance.'

Gaga, who wore a see-through cat suit encrusted with crystals, updated the lyrics of "Give Peace a Chance" when it was her turn to solo, addressing her recent role in the fight to get "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repealed by singing "Everybody's talking about that defense bill, don't ask don't tell, every person's sanctuary, gays in the military."

Other highlights from the Orpheum shows: RZA's take on Ono's "Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City" and Iggy Pop's high-powered performance.

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Lady Gaga Speaks Out To End 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

 Lady Gaga took the role of a concerned citizen and insinuated herself into the debate of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". According to the article below, she spoke at a Maine rally to propose a law called, 'If you don't like it, you can go home.' Apparently, it didn't work as Republicans on Tuesday blocked a move to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military. 
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Lady Gaga loses out
freep.com | Detroit Free Press: Posted: 11:53 a.m. Sept. 22, 2010

You know things have gotten weird when recording artist Lady Gaga becomes the voice of reason. Gaga inserted herself into the debate over the military’s controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy by speaking on Monday at a Maine rally to overturn the Clinton-era provision. 'I am here today because I want to propose a law called, 'If you don't like it, you can go home.' A law that sends home the homophobes, that sends home the prejudiced. If you are not committed to perform with excellence as a United States soldier because you don't believe in full equality, go home,' Gaga was reported to have told the 2,000 people at the rally.

Gaga’s words fell on deaf ears in the US Senate as Republicans on Tuesday blocked a move to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military. Republican Arizona Senator John McCain called the effort to repeal the ban 'a blatant political ploy in order to try to galvanize the political base of the other side, which is facing a losing election,' according to the Wall Street Journal.

Ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” isn’t about political calculus; it’s about right and wrong. What right does the government have to distinguish among us, to treat one group of citizens differently because of who they are?

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