I just wanted to pop my head in here and say that everyone IS entitled to their own opinion. I love Lady Gaga, but I'm not the Gaga police. The initial conflict in this thread was NOT about someone disliking Lady Gaga; it was about someone diagnosing her with a disease supposedly caused by her being the victim of childhood sexual assault (which is rumor, not fact), her gayness, and her Christian faith, which in my opinion is not okay. That being said, that part of the discussion is over, and I think we should all move on from it. So please, feel free to express how you feel without fear of being ostracized one way or another.
And yes, Gaga does do a lot of outreach. Since there seems to be a genuine interest in and curiosiy about her work, I think I might revisit that Eden Cafe piece