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Lady Gaga Talks About Malaysian Censorship

Lady Gaga is not happy to know that the Malaysian government is censoring her song "Born This Way" because the country consists of conservative majority of Muslims who don't accept LGBT rights.

In Malaysia, homosexuality is taboo and illegal. Many Islamic groups there consider her song's lyrics "No matter gay, straight, or bi, lesbian or transgendered life" to be very offensive. As a result of this, many of the concerts have been cancelled and often the organizers are fined later for contravening laws governing modesty. Broadcasters have been fined 10,000 pounds for playing her song as well in Malaysia.

Lady Gaga spoke openly about the Malaysian censorship issue regarding her song. She said that the youth of Malaysia should fight for their rights and make their voices heard if they want to hear these words from her song. She said one must fight for liberation from the set rules in a peaceful way.

Well, I am pretty ok with somebody else's sexual orientations and accept LGBT rights. I understand everybody may not be so cool about these things. But I think every society will take time to realize these things are a reality even if laws or religions prohibit such stuff. Even in countries like Malaysia LGBT community would exist quietly. I feel one is gay or lesbian or straight by nature. What's so special if you are straight but your friend is gay? At the end of the day we are all humans. Do we judge someone on the fact that he is gay or lesbian or if he is a decent human being or not?

These are natural things and people should understand that. Anyhow, there is no harm in playing a song because sexual preferences do not depend on such lyrics rather her lyrics merely talk about the general acceptance of people no matter how they are. The bigger and better picture is missed by focusing on individual words like lesbians or transgender etc.

So What If Adam Lambert is Gay?

Now I really don't know if this is a shock or what? I really thought a major chunk of the world is way past things such as sexuality, sex change, gays etc.

Even if the American Idol judge Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi (who is an American singer and record producer) has just made it public that Adam Lambert is gay...is it really that big a deal?

It was always quite obvious though or at least the signs were pretty much there but should one always put a tag on himself to spell it out to the world. And should one judge people based on their sexuality. I was reading various articles and many Americans raised the question that could this be the reason that he lost out on the votes.

Knowing how people react to such things even today when everything is so clear it can be a possibility that his sexuality could have influenced the voters some how because it is very easy to switch one's opinion on very small details.

We just feel everything is so chill in America and all is acceptable but if we just just start getting into details, we find that there too even many things are yet to be accepted totally. And they still raise the question "Is America Ready For A Gay Idol?"





The sad part is that in such influences and perceptions it's basically talent that suffers. If he is a good singer then he is even if he is gay. So was George Michael...who really cares as long as they are singing well. Music has nothing to do with sexuality. Let them be...