The Queen of Pop said she was ordered to pay up after comments she made at a 2012 concert in St. Petersburg, but she opted not to do so.
to the LGBTQ community since the early days of her career and that outspokenness apparently didn’t fly in Russia eight years ago.
On Sunday, the pop superstar posted a clip of a mid-concert speech she delivered during the St. Petersburg stop on her. In it, she doubles down on her support for LGBTQ rights, telling the crowd, “We want to fight for the right to be free, to be who we are.” “I am here to say that the gay community and gay people, here and all around the world, have the same rights [as everyone else] to be treated with dignity, with respect, with tolerance, with compassion, with love,” she tells the crowd, many of whom signal their agreement by hoisting rainbow flags into the air.
In a caption accompanying the video, Madonna said that she was slapped with a $1 million fine by the Russian government for the speech, but that she “never paid.”
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