"In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny"
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The subtext is control. Androgyny, in Gaga’s hands, becomes a method for refusing the default contract the pop machine offers women: be legible, be desirable, be sortable. Early Gaga arrived in an era when red-carpet femininity was policed into narrow categories and queerness was often packaged as a “phase” or a marketing angle. By “loving androgyny,” she’s aligning herself with a lineage of glam, drag, and club culture where gender is something you remix, not something you confess. It signals solidarity without turning into a sermon.
Context matters: Gaga’s rise was fueled by maximalism, spectacle, and characters. Androgyny fits that strategy because it’s instantly readable but impossible to pin down. It keeps audiences curious, critics irritated, and the celebrity-industrial gaze slightly off-balance. There’s also a quieter emotional resonance underneath the theater: for fans who feel misfiled by gender norms, her “in a sense” creates room to breathe. It’s not a manifesto; it’s an open door, held by someone with a megaphone.
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"In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-a-sense-i-portray-myself-in-a-very-androgynous-20130/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.




