The impact of Born This Way on America revealed.
Did Gaga's song Born This Way have an impact on how all American's view gay orientation?
Born This Way (song) hit the radio about January 2011 and was released for sale officially on Feb 11th, 2011. Lady Gaga performed Born This Way on TV's highest viewed events in 2011. The Grammys was her first performance. It was viewed by over 26.6 million Americans and she even finished the year on New Years Rockin Eve with Dick Clark.
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I'd like to think it did. It's a cliché but the song really did help me accept who I was. In 2010/2011 I was in a state of huge denial, being gay was just seen as this thing that people shouldn't turn out to be, and that people who were gay probably had a terrible upbringing involving abuse etc. My mindset was that I've never been abused or had a bad upbringing thus I can't be gay. Then the song came along and became mainstream, and to see people actively believing in its message was a wake-up c