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Lady Gaga's foundation recognizes Utah girl who came out to her LDS congregation and a refugee organ
Lady Gaga’s foundation recognizes Utah girl who came out to her LDS congregation and a refugee organization for womenOn Thursday night, Lady Gaga will be rockin’ down Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City. Her foundation, on the other hand, was in a quieter mode on its “Channel the Kindness” tour, recognizing a 13-year-old lesbian girl named Savannah and Women of the World, a nonprofit that helps refugee women become self-sufficient.
Savannah garnered fame in May when she came out as a lesbian before her Eagle Mountain Mormon congregation. “No part of me is a mistake,” she told them. “I do not choose to be this way, and it is not a fad.”
Savannah was not allowed to finish her church testimony, but she did make national headlines. [The Salt Lake Tribune is not using her last name, in accordance with her parents’ wishes.]
She is one of eight recipients of the Channel the Kindness award from the Born This Way Foundation, which was established by Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta.
Read more: http://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/12/14/lady-gagas-foundation-recognizes-utah-lesbian-girl-and-a-refugee-organization-for-women/