The President makes a historic keynote address and the crowd goes Gaga for the First Lady of pop at the Human Rights Campaign Gala

By Michael M. Clements

Lady Gaga before performing at the HRC gala. (Photo by Tony Powell)

Lady Gaga before performing at the HRC gala. (Photo by Tony Powell)

There are certain moments in time that can come to define a movement and generation. In the years to follow, the LGBT community will look back at President Barack Obama‘s speech at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) 13th Annual Gala – his first as a Nobel Laureate – as a watershed moment for equality. Mainstream America will too.

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