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donutellha

OMG GAGGAGAGAGAGAGA

Walk down the runway but don't puke, it's okay. You just had 10 donuts today. Without frosting.
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Are the stages usually huges in these events??

This is the perfect opportunity to release a single and promote it. And if she doesn't pull as a single DIC in this moment and milk it as she did with MR until late summer....I swear...

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manicholic
1 hour ago, Morphine Prince said:

Isn't Coachella owned by homophobes?

This is gonna be messy if true. 

EDIT: Apparently these were just rumors.

Anschutz is a conservative Christian, and for years his Anschutz Foundation donated to organizations that line up with right-wing views, including opposition to gay marriage and climate change denial. The organization Freedom For All Americans named Anschutz alongside more recognizable anti-gay figures like Kim Davis and Tony Perkins as an “enemy of equality” in a report back in July of last year.

Anschutz is a hugely wealthy entrepreneur, and his views have ben known for years–AEG is second only to Live Nation in live music promotion, and it also owns the L.A. Kings and the L.A. Galaxy. The criticism against him reared its head again this week because Coachella announced its 2017 lineup on Tuesday. Now, Anschutz is dismissing the claims that he is anti-gay as “garbage” and “fake news.”

1 hour ago, CrazyMonster said:

No, these were made up rumors, look it up.

Unfortunately for Anschutz, his charitable donations are a matter of public record. The most recent available IRS filing for the Anschutz foundation covers the 2014 fiscal year, and as Billboard points out, it includes a $10,000 grant to the Family Research Council, whose entire raison d’être is opposition to gay rights, abortion, and divorce. SPIN also found contributions to Promise Keepers, a ministry that only allows men as members and whose founder once called gay people “an abomination against almighty God,” and to The Navigators, an evangelical organization that referred to homsexuality as “sexual brokenness” in a 2013 publication.

Anschutz’s statement claimed that the foundation “immediately ceased all contributions to such groups” when it found out a group it supported was anti-LGBTQ. And because records of donations more recent than 2014 aren’t yet available, that claim is difficult to fact check. It’s possible that Anschutz somehow didn’t realize until a few years ago that the Family Research Council, which the SPLC calls “the most important anti-gay lobby in this country,” was in fact anti-gay, but it’s pretty hard to believe.

http://www.spin.com/2017/01/coachella-owner-who-donated-to-anti-gay-causes-as-recently-as-2014-dismisses-criticism-as-fake-news/

Anschutz's company, AEG, owns Goldenvoice, which organizes the annual Coachella event. Reports from this week showed that Anschutz donated $190,000 to groups including the Alliance Defending Freedom, National Christian Foundation, and Family Research Council. the Family Research Council has been designated an extremist hate group by the progressive Southern Poverty Law Center. The Alliance Defending Freedom has been involved in promoting "religious freedom" to justify anti-LGBT discrimination, reports the SPLC. The National Christian Foundation funds groups that are "aggressively working to chip away at the equal rights of LGBT Americans," reported The Washington Post. During the 2016 election campaign, Anschutz and his wife gave a combined $1,012,000 to Republican candidates and political action committees, reported The Fader. The AEG owner also gave $500,000 to the Senate Leadership Fund, a Republican super PAC that spent $83 million to fund campaigns against Democrats in the 2016 election. Anschutz also gave $2,000 to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, a rabid homophobe, in his campaign for reelection to Congress in 2006. 

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http://www.advocate.com/politics/2017/1/05/coachella-owner-denies-homophobia-festival-performer-vows-lgbt-donation

1 hour ago, Monsterious said:

gurl aint nobody have time for that

this is HUGE

There's nothing harder for people to do than admit they were fooled.
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KevinLeto

OH WOW OH WOW OH WOW I NEED TO CALL MY SUGAR DADDY NOW!!! 

I'm the spirit of my hair, it's all the glory that I bare
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Decodekid
27 minutes ago, Stef said:

Queen is the entire industry's second choice :hor:

 

What are they trying to say with "The Fame Monster" :gum:

is The Monster Ball coming back? :gum:

Long Live Gretchen
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prince
3 minutes ago, nytimes said:

Anschutz is a conservative Christian, and for years his Anschutz Foundation donated to organizations that line up with right-wing views, including opposition to gay marriage and climate change denial. The organization Freedom For All Americans named Anschutz alongside more recognizable anti-gay figures like Kim Davis and Tony Perkins as an “enemy of equality” in a report back in July of last year.

Anschutz is a hugely wealthy entrepreneur, and his views have ben known for years–AEG is second only to Live Nation in live music promotion, and it also owns the L.A. Kings and the L.A. Galaxy. The criticism against him reared its head again this week because Coachella announced its 2017 lineup on Tuesday. Now, Anschutz is dismissing the claims that he is anti-gay as “garbage” and “fake news.”

Unfortunately for Anschutz, his charitable donations are a matter of public record. The most recent available IRS filing for the Anschutz foundation covers the 2014 fiscal year, and as Billboard points out, it includes a $10,000 grant to the Family Research Council, whose entire raison d’être is opposition to gay rights, abortion, and divorce. SPIN also found contributions to Promise Keepers, a ministry that only allows men as members and whose founder once called gay people “an abomination against almighty God,” and to The Navigators, an evangelical organization that referred to homsexuality as “sexual brokenness” in a 2013 publication.

Anschutz’s statement claimed that the foundation “immediately ceased all contributions to such groups” when it found out a group it supported was anti-LGBTQ. And because records of donations more recent than 2014 aren’t yet available, that claim is difficult to fact check. It’s possible that Anschutz somehow didn’t realize until a few years ago that the Family Research Council, which the SPLC calls “the most important anti-gay lobby in this country,” was in fact anti-gay, but it’s pretty hard to believe.

http://www.spin.com/2017/01/coachella-owner-who-donated-to-anti-gay-causes-as-recently-as-2014-dismisses-criticism-as-fake-news/

Anschutz's company, AEG, owns Goldenvoice, which organizes the annual Coachella event. Reports from this week showed that Anschutz donated $190,000 to groups including the Alliance Defending Freedom, National Christian Foundation, and Family Research Council. the Family Research Council has been designated an extremist hate group by the progressive Southern Poverty Law Center. The Alliance Defending Freedom has been involved in promoting "religious freedom" to justify anti-LGBT discrimination, reports the SPLC. The National Christian Foundation funds groups that are "aggressively working to chip away at the equal rights of LGBT Americans," reported The Washington Post. During the 2016 election campaign, Anschutz and his wife gave a combined $1,012,000 to Republican candidates and political action committees, reported The Fader. The AEG owner also gave $500,000 to the Senate Leadership Fund, a Republican super PAC that spent $83 million to fund campaigns against Democrats in the 2016 election. Anschutz also gave $2,000 to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, a rabid homophobe, in his campaign for reelection to Congress in 2006. 

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http://www.advocate.com/politics/2017/1/05/coachella-owner-denies-homophobia-festival-performer-vows-lgbt-donation

The fact is Gaga has already performed in venues owned by AEG, the Staples centre and O2 Arena in London. Coachella is just another venue owned by AEG. You can't get away from homophobes tbh

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ItWasntLaauv

Low key pressed because my friend who is going because Beyonce was headlining now gets to see Gaga and tickets are sold out but, slay the promo game I guess :crossed:

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Bloody hooker

I just saw this on Instagram! I'm not ready if it's true!:giveup:

This mutual gaze was a “longing to touch” or a "pre-coitus" stare.
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manicholic
2 minutes ago, princetomc said:

The fact is Gaga has already performed in venues owned by AEG, the Staples centre and O2 Arena in London. Coachella is just another venue owned by AEG. You can't get away from homophobes tbh

but see, she can though.

she is one of maybe 5 top global superstars that CAN make a choice, speak out and denounce Anschutz's actions and lies.

the hundreds of other musicians performing there cannot afford to skip out on Coachella / AEG, they'd not be able to survive as artists. 

but she can. yet she won't. so the money/value that she adds to the festival will go into Anschutz's pockets and then to Mike Pence's presidential campaign, for example. 

There's nothing harder for people to do than admit they were fooled.
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Michelle

It's sold out too! Soon wonder if they'll add more tickets? That sucks because now fans can't get tix to see her :giveup: lucky people who have tickets already!! I know someone going who doesn't even like her 😩🙈😩

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