Obama opens for Lady Gaga

This past Saturday night was the thirteenth annual Human Rights Campaign dinner in Washington D.C. The Human Rights Campaign is the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organization.

The dinner brings together guests to celebrate those who strive to bring equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, by helping the public to realize fairness and equal rights for all. Two guests on hand at the event were President Barack Obama, and singer Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga paid tribute to the gay community in her acceptance speech for her win at the MTV Video Music Awards this past September.

President Obama gave a speech regarding his support then introduced Lady Gaga to perform for those in attendance. In a press release from HRC.com, "President Obama told LGBT Americans that his commitment to ending discrimination in the military, in the workplace and for loving couples and their families is 'unwavering.' He made it crystal clear that he is our strongest ally in this fight, that he understands and, in fact, encourages our activism and our voice even when we're impatient with the pace of change."

After his speech, Obama joked that he was very privileged to be opening for Lady Gaga, that he has made it. Lady Gaga came to the stage wearing a simple black dress and John Lennon inspired shades, more conservative then her usual lavish attire. She performed a cover of John Lennon's "Imagine" but reworded the lyrics to reflect on the tragedy of Matthew Shepard.

Gaga looked to Matthew Shepard's parents and said "I'm not going to play one of my songs tonight, because tonight is not about me. It's about you", as reported on NYDailyNews.com.