Today Yoko Ono will give the Biennial LENNON ONO GRANT FOR PEACE to five activists while celebrating the birthday of John Lennon and his son Sean. LADY GAGA is among the five activists who are to receive the peace award in Reykjavik today and is expected to donate her prize to the Elton John Aids Foundation to support their work combating HIV among disadvantaged youth in the U.S.
LADY GAGA has been a fierced supporter and an outspoken activist for LGBT rights worldwide and called the October 11, 2009 National Equality March rally on the National Mall was "the single most important event of her career.
“LADY GAGA is one of the biggest living artists of our time...using her art to bring better communication to the world. She is being acknowledged for her activism, and how her album “Born This Way” has widely changed the mental map of the world. And how it has made us deal with the future world, which happens to be here already.” says Yoko Ono.
Yoko Ono will also light the Imagine Peace Tower, a memorial to John Lennon, located on Viðey Island in Kollafjörður Bay near Reykjavík, Iceland.
The LennonOno Grant For Peace 2012 will be awarded to:
• Rachel Corrie
• John Perkins
• Christopher Hitchens
• Pussy Riot
• Lady Gaga
