In 2011, pop music sensation Lady Gaga (Stefani Angelina Germanotta) released the song “Born This Way,” a tune that has become the anthem for the homosexual community. The song’s lyrics articulate a crude sort of biological-genetic justification for various forms of behavior, and in many ways reflects the shared values and practices of a society infatuated with a sexually libertine ethic. Lady Gaga asserts, “No matter gay, straight or bi/Lesbian, transgendered life/I’m on the right track,
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