Madonna Presents The Vito Russo Award To Anderson Cooper – Glaad Awards

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[Madonna Presents The Vito Russo Award To Anderson Cooper - Glaad Awards]

[Madonna Louise Ciccone] Source: LYBIO.net
Howday, so happy to be here. I wanted to be a boy scout but they wouldn’t let me join. I think that’s fucked up. Um, I can build a fire. I know how to pitch a tent. I have a very good sense of direction. I can rescue kittens from trees. Uh hm.

Listen, I want to do good for the community. And most importantly, I know how to scout for boys.

So I think that I should be allowed to be a boy scout, and I think that they should change their stupid rules. Don’t you? Yeah? You guys don’t sound excited enough. Don’t you think they should change their rules?

[Audience]
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[Madonna] Source: LYBIO.net
Ok, good, alright, so — you may sit down. Please relax. I have a few axes to grind.

I’m not going to talk until you’re all sitting. I want you nice and cozy in your seats. I brought a book in case you take too long and I need to read.

Um, well, I was a girl scout, but I got kicked out. And you want to know why? Because my skirt was too short, and I never sold enough cookies. I ate the cookies. Those peanut butter patties are good. Anyway, we already talked about that.

Let’s get serious for a moment. You just watched a clip from my recent tour, maybe you saw it live, maybe a few in here saw it live? I thought it was pertinent to show tonight because for me it illustrates that things like bigotry, homophobia, hate crimes, bullying and any form of discrimination always seems to be a manifestation of fear of the unknown. Right?

Most people are not comfortable with things or people that they perceive as different from themselves, and I would wager that if we just took the time to get to know one another, did our own investigation, looked beneath the surface of things, that we would find that we are not so different after all.

[Audience]
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[Madonna]
We are also under the illusion that with the wonder of technologies at our fingertips that the world is coming closer together, that people are becoming more familiar with one another, that the distance between one human and another is being diminished.

Now, on the one hand, that is true. But on the other hand, it is not true. I believe the opposite is taking place. Because a picture doesn’t tell a thousand stories, a picture tells a version of a thousand stories, and this supposed intimacy that we think we are gaining is false. It is unearned. It is a trick.

I created this video piece in my show because I wanted to bring awareness and attention to the fact that we don’t really take the time to get to know one another, and we need to.

If a Palestinian mother sat down with an Israeli mother to talk about children and how much they love their families, would they really feel such a divide between one another? Would they?

[Audience]
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[Madonna] Source: LYBIO.net
If – if President Putin sat in a room with Pussy Riot, he’s probably want to fuck all of them, but anyways, um,if he did, and he had an open dialogue with them about their point of view as young, creative women growing up in modern day Russia. Would he really have allowed them to be dragged away to prison for three years? I mean think about it. It’ just insane! Because they criticized the government.

And if this newly religious government in St. Petersburg sat down with the 85 men who were arrested before and after my show for being openly gay, and asked them about their hopes and dreams for the future , really listened to them, would they be in jail right now?

Would I have received death threats? Would I be fighting a lawsuit for a million dollars for openly supporting the gay community in Russia?

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[Madonna]
This is – It’s – I’m not tooting my own horn here, this is – you know, you have to try and comprehend this because it’s so absurd. All in the name of God. What did Jesus teach? It’s in all the Holy Books. Love they neighbour as thyself.

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[Madonna]
So, we cannot use the name of God or religion to justify acts of violent to hurt, to hate, to discriminate.

I think you get my point of view and I realize that everyone in this room is pretty much on the same page as me, but anyone out there sitting on the fence still – a sharp fence I hope – um, um, I hope you’re listening.

When I think about young kids today in America who are being bullied and tortured, who are taking their own lives because they feel alone and judged, outcast, and misunderstood, I want to sit down and cry a river of tears.

Seven of those kids were featured in this video that I showed you. I have teenagers of my own now, and the idea of them, or any young person experiencing that kind of pain is unfathomable to me. It’s an atrocity to me! I don’t accept it.

[Audience]
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[Madonna] Source: LYBIO.net
And it’s no different — it’s no different than a white supremacist hanging a black man from a tree before the civil rights movement. OK! It’s no different. It’s no different than a member of the Taliban shooting a young girl in the head for writing a blog about the importance of female education.

It’s no crazier than an Iranian gay man being hanged for falling in love with a man.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t take this shit any more. Hey!

And that is why I want to start a revolution. Are you with me? It’s 2013 people. We live in America – land of the free and home of the brave? That’s a question, not a statement.

But, I do love that word brave. I don’t fling it around very often. I don’t know a lot of brave people. In the song you just heard, I sing the line, “it’s so hard to find someone to admire,” and that is the reason I am here – to give an award to someone I admire, to acknowledge someone who is brave. Someone who has made a difference in the world by promoting equality and giving a voice to the LGBT community. I am here to honor you, Anderson Cooper.

[Madonna] Source: LYBIO.net
Now you can stand up. Now you can stand up, stand up, stand up. This is the moment. Because – well – because Anderson – wait, move over a little bit cause I need – I need – I need to look at his beautiful blue eyes and say hi. Um, you’re not afraid to stick your neck out – take it on the chin, you stand up for the rights of others, and you say: “This is who I am.” “Like it or not.” “Love me or leave me.” “But I’m never gonna stop.” Now, sorry to quote another one of my songs, but you do like my music, right? Ya. Ya. I thought so, I did see you on the front row at Yankee Stadium and the Stade de France and Madison Square Garden. We don’t have to talk about that right now. Okay, um, Anderson, you’re intelligent, you’re gorgeous, you look great in a suit, shhhh-don’t talk. I’m doing this , important – this is the uh – blowing smoke up the ass part. I wrote this though, nobody wrote my copy, ok! No one can write my copy. Okay.

[Audience]
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[Madonna] Source: LYBIO.net
You are an excellent journalist, you have the most beautiful blue eyes I have ever seen. And half of America is in love with you. Maybe more than half. But the reason that I love you, is because you are a freedom fighter. You are a bad ass motherfucker. And you – you are brave. And the world needs more people like you, ok. Hey man [Amen], so I think you and me need to start a revolution together but we’re gonna hammer out the details of that later.

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