PORTLAND, Maine � Lady Gaga has visited Maine before a key Senate vote to urge the state's two U.S. senators to help repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays.
More than 2,000 people attended a rally Monday at Portland's Deering Oaks Park, where the pop star railed against the 1993 policy prohibiting service members from revealing if they're gay.
Lady Gaga says the policy allows straight soldiers who harbor hatred toward gays to fight for their country. She suggests a new policy: "If you don't like it, go home."
The rally was organized by Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. The organization is trying to pressure Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine and Scott Brown of Massachusetts to vote to allow a repeal of the policy.
The Senate is scheduled to consider the matter Tuesday.
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