PORTLAND, Maine — Lady Gaga spoke out Monday against the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays.
The 24-year-old pop star attended a rally at Deering Oaks Park in Portland, Maine, where she urged the state's two U.S. senators to help repeal the law that prohibits service members from revealing if they're gay.
"I'm here because don't ask don't tell is wrong, it's unjust and fundamentally it is against all that we stand for as Americans," she told a crowd estimated at 2,000.
The rally, organized by Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, was held on the eve of a key Senate vote on a bill that includes a repeal of the law. The organization is trying to pressure Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine and Scott Brown of Massachusetts to vote to allow a repeal of the policy.
"To the senate, to Americans, to Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, both of Maine, and Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts. Equality is the prime rib of America," said Gaga. "Equality is the prime rib of what we stand for as a nation. And I don't get to enjoy the greatest cut of meat my country has to offer. Are you listening?"
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