The Lady Is Gaga for Helping

By Michelle Garcia

Pop star Lady Gaga is showing a more altruistic side, compared to her outlandish and carefree music. She's big on volunteering too.

Lady Gaga was spotted at the HIV Support Centre for a music-based volunteer program in Manchester, England, according to The [London] Sun.

"I've been doing volunteer work since I was 2," she said. "When I can, I do everything I can for those in need."

Her work at the center included promoting the practice of safer sex. She declined to answer any questions about young people having sex in an open field in nearby Somerset, calling the topic of sexuality "political."

"I want to make it fashionable to have safe sex," she said. "You must be safe. You can have sex with hundreds of people with a condom on and get nothing. If you have sex without one, then you could get all sorts of problems."

She added that she did 60 hours of volunteer work per year with aspiring theater actors and workers when she was in living in New York.

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Name: Wan-Lin
Date posted: 7/1/2009 4:22:00 PM
Hometown: Dallas

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That is awesome! Thanks Lady Gaga for volunteering! I wish more celebrities would set more positive examples like this!
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Name: Chuckjones
Date posted: 7/1/2009 2:58:00 PM
Hometown: Plymoutn

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Excuse me - she did talk about sex in terms of safe sex. She didn't address having sex in the field. I'd like to see her fully quoted; she's been misquoted in the past. Also, she was at an event for children. I think Lady Gaga is a great young pop artist. She's creative and talented. No, she's not - as she's put it herself - someone that guys drool over. (Her looks work for me, though!) The crappy comment about the photo doesn't take into account that she is actually singing during the performance. She doesn't merely posture and lip sync like a lot of pop stars.
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Name: Mike M
Date posted: 7/1/2009 2:11:00 PM
Hometown: SF

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@ Franz.. Maybe you have been sitting in the sun too long. I think it's cowardly to be afraid to talk about sex and to blame it on politics. You are pathetic if you think that is the right way to answer a question when we have life threatening STDs, AND she is such a provocator. I stand by my comment.
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Name: Lickety Splitz
Date posted: 7/1/2009 1:23:00 PM
Hometown: Lez Not Go There

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THAT's Lady Gaga? She looks like a man in drag!
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Name: Franz
Date posted: 7/1/2009 12:54:00 PM
Hometown: Palm Springs, CA

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What a jaded thing to ssay and call her answer as being stupid and cowardly. Here's a person volunteering her time for a noble cause, and she refuses to answer a question, and she's judged by it...you're pathetic Mike M.
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Name: MM
Date posted: 7/1/2009 12:48:00 PM
Hometown: Atlanta, GA

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While I applaud her support, I detest her singing. She scares me.
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Name: Mike M
Date posted: 7/1/2009 12:40:00 PM
Hometown: SF

Comment:
Nice to see some altruism. I think her answer about not getting political is stupid & cowardly, but I still applaud her working for social justice.

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