Lady Gaga donates peace prize to Aids charity
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Performer Lady Gaga (right) poses for a photograph with Yoko Ono after receiving a Lennon Ono Grant For Peace award in Reykjavik, on Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012. Lady Gaga said on Tuesday she would donate a peace prize given to her by artist and activist Yoko Ono to Elton John's Aids charity. -- PHOTO: AP
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Yoko Ono, right, stands alongside performer Lady Gaga, as she shows her wrist after receiving a Lennon Ono Grant For Peace award in Reykjavik, on Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012. Lady Gaga was presented the award for her social activism. -- PHOTO: AP
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Lady Gaga gestures on stage during the Lennon Ono Grant For Peace awards ceremony in Reykjavik, Iceland on Oct 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Performer Lady Gaga, right, poses for a photograph with Reykjavik mayor Jon Gnarr after receiving a Lennon Ono Grant For Peace award in Reykjavik, on Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
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Lady GaGa (R) and US author John Perkins sit on stage during the Lennon Ono Grant For Peace awards ceremony in Reykjavik, Iceland on Oct 9, 2012. This year's recipients are Lady Gaga, Rachel Corrie, John Perkins, Christopher Hitchens and Pussy Riot. -- PHOTO: AFP
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(From left) Carol Blue Hitchens, US author John Perkins, Yoko Ono, US singer Lady Gaga, Craig and Cindy Corrie, parents of peace activist Rachel Corrie pose during the Lennon Ono Grant For Peace awards ceremony in Reykjavik, Iceland on October 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: AFP
Performer Lady Gaga (right) poses for a photograph with Yoko Ono after receiving a Lennon Ono Grant For Peace award in Reykjavik, on Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012. Lady Gaga said on Tuesday she would donate a peace prize given to her by artist and activist Yoko Ono to Elton John's Aids charity. -- PHOTO: AP
Yoko Ono, right, stands alongside performer Lady Gaga, as she shows her wrist after receiving a Lennon Ono Grant For Peace award in Reykjavik, on Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012. Lady Gaga was presented the award for her social activism. -- PHOTO: AP
Lady Gaga gestures on stage during the Lennon Ono Grant For Peace awards ceremony in Reykjavik, Iceland on Oct 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: AFP
Performer Lady Gaga, right, poses for a photograph with Reykjavik mayor Jon Gnarr after receiving a Lennon Ono Grant For Peace award in Reykjavik, on Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
Lady GaGa (R) and US author John Perkins sit on stage during the Lennon Ono Grant For Peace awards ceremony in Reykjavik, Iceland on Oct 9, 2012. This year's recipients are Lady Gaga, Rachel Corrie, John Perkins, Christopher Hitchens and Pussy Riot. -- PHOTO: AFP
(From left) Carol Blue Hitchens, US author John Perkins, Yoko Ono, US singer Lady Gaga, Craig and Cindy Corrie, parents of peace activist Rachel Corrie pose during the Lennon Ono Grant For Peace awards ceremony in Reykjavik, Iceland on October 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: AFP
REYKJAVIK (AFP) - Lady Gaga said on Tuesday she would donate a peace prize given to her by artist and activist Yoko Ono to Elton John's Aids charity.
"I will be donating this grant to the Elton John Aids Foundation and I will be working closely with them to ensure that the money goes specifically to those orphaned and disadvantaged youth in America born with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (Aids)," she said in her acceptance speech.
The LennonOno Grant For Peace is a biennial award handed out by Yoko Ono, the widow of former Beatles star John Lennon.
Ono told AFP that she wanted to honour Gaga for her work campaigning for gay rights.
