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Lady Gaga Visits LGBT Youth at Ali Forney Center for Black Friday
Gaga brought gifts, performed "Million Reasons," and led a group meditation.
November 27 2016 8:59 AM EST
November 27 2016 9:03 AM EST
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After getting a Thanksgiving Day visit from Madonna, LGBT young people at the Ali Forney Center got a Black Friday appearance by another music icon -- Lady Gaga.
Gaga visited the Brooklyn location of the center, which provides housing, a drop-in program, and other services for homeless LGBT youth at several sites in New York City. She brought gifts, led meditation, and performed "Million Reasons." Watch video at the bottom of the page.
"I'm here today not because I had to excruciatingly pull time out of my schedule to come be here," Gaga said at the center, according to I Heart Radio. "I'm here because I want to be here. And I'm here because I want this to affect other people around the world and to remind them that when they are kind, it not only makes the other person feel good, but it makes me feel good too."
Gaga also tweeted a photo of her meditating with the young people.
\u201cI spent a beautiful morning w/ \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 youth @AliForneyCenter the largest drop-in center in the \ud83c\udf0e. I brought \ud83c\udf81& led them in a group meditation\u201d— Lady Gaga (@Lady Gaga) 1480180109
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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.