Madonna calls for gay ban lift
Wearing a replica of one of the organization's uniforms, Madonna called on the Boy Scouts to lift its ban on gays while also calling for a "Revolution" to prevent discrimination and abuse of the gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual community. Ref. Source 4
The Queen of Pop has written about the traumatic experience in the November issue of Harper's Bazaar magazine.
"New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back,'' she says in the article. Ref. Source 3
Is Madonna passé, or still a provocateur?
Is Madonna, the onetime queen of pop-music controversy, now passé? Or is she like Pablo Picasso, and just hitting her stride as she approaches her 60th birthday, as she told an interviewer ... Ref. Source 5r