Controversial music artist Lady GaGa is on the cover of the new issue of Out magazine.  The gay/lesbian magazine also features a lengthy article and interview with GaGa on her obsession with and thankfulness for the gay community.

“When I started in the mainstream it was the gays that lifted me up,” she says. “I committed myself to them and they committed themselves to me, and because of the gay community I’m where I am today.”

Earlier this year, in her acceptance speech for her MuchMusic award for best international video, Lady Gaga thanked “God and the gays.”

Before agreeing to tour with Kanye West this fall, Gaga told the rapper, “I just want to be clear before we decide to do this together: I’m gay. My music is gay. My show is gay. And I love that it’s gay. And I love my gay fans and they’re all going to be coming to our show. And it’s going to remain gay.”

Lady GaGa made news last week when she allegedly admitted that she was in fact a hermaphrodite.

[PS: If you stare at the word 'OUT' long enough it starts to look really weird.]

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