I just saw this video on Tumblr with over 20k notes, and just wanted to see what you all here on ATRL had to say.

http://gwenstafani.tumblr.com/post/4...-****ing-video
(I dunno how to embed videos from Tumblr...)


"This is gay pride, not Lady Gaga pride. She is not a spokesperson for us. She is not one of us. She is not a lesbian and she is not gay. Just because you like us doesn't mean you are us. All I wanna say is Kelly Rowland is the true gay icon. But besides that fact, your self acceptance songs- "Born This Way", "Firework", "We R Who We R" - you're a straight white woman, you don't know sh*t about getting bullied. You don't know f*ck about what we've been through. So thanks for writing it, but a gay man should be singing it. Or a black man, or some random ass lesbian with a penis growing out of her forehead. Because you don't know sh*t about being born this way. Thanks so much."

Thoughts?

Old as **** and stupid as hell. That angry twink can leave.

This is old, it's been posted before. I'm gay, and I think the last thing gay people should be doing is complaining about someone standing up for them.

I didn't know this was old.

Old, ignorant and embarassing.

"She's not even that pretty."

And Kelly Rowland being the true gay icon

Gays like this are so damn unbearable. Is this TWINK aware of the fact that part of her concerts are donated as proceeds towards LGBTQ charities? She raised like $80,000 for LGBTQ charity alone from the Monster Ball tour.

The real kii is that Gaga did much more for gay rights than those bitter complainers have done and will ever do in their lives.

Couldn't have been said better than in her own words

Messy.

I get the idea that allies, particularly straight white, beautiful and wealthy pop stars get 90% of the praise for supporting gay rights when gay activists themselves are usually shoved away from the limelight to make it look like we're being fought for by famous woman, but he goes around and says Kelly Rowland is is the true gay icon?

I'm not asking that to shade Kelly, while I'm not familiar with her contributions, I don't doubt them. I just think it's hypocritical to attack one ally and compliment another. Perhaps there's more to the complaint than that but I'm pretty sure he's just someone who isn't a fan of Gaga (and is clearly a fan of Kelly) looking to justify their hate.

Pick your battles, gays.

This video was posted before on here and iirc his twitter revealed he was a Britney stan

First of all, kudos to BTW for being different than all the other "empowerment anthems" for actually directly addressing an audience, rather than being super general as to be inoffensive but still able to be interpreted as "supportive." It also reminds people to be proud of themselves and not worry about what anyone else thinks, while other anthems are about showing everyone else how great you are, impressing them, making them love you, etc. It's a totally different way of addressing the issue and I don't think BTW gets recognized for that enough.

Secondly it's sad to see ignorant thinking from ALL sides I saw someone post on FB yesterday saying [paraphrased] "thanks to all my straight friends who have the = profile pic, but to really make a difference, try to have a conversation with a family member or friend who you know are bigoted, since they might actually listen to you" which I think is totally correct. Shooting down allies is stupid, and no one says you HAVE to be a "little monster" but you can at least appreciate that she's trying to help. You need allies with power (in this case, straight white people) to help make change, since the majority of the power holders are going to be against changing the status quo--imagine if African Americans had decided to shun any white guy supporting their cause during the civil rights movement? How stupid.

This is so old, has this really not already been posted?

Kelly Rowland? So random

Sad. He's acting like a cocky prick and really needs to calm down. Shooting down straight allies helps nobody. Regardless of what she "knows" about being LGBT (as if he's a mind reader or something) she's helped us, and that's what matters. Not his personal stanning allegiance.