Lady Gaga Born Brave Bus draws exploitation complaints

Lady Gaga brings her Born Brave Bus to San Jose today for a show that is far from selling out. She says that her Born Brave Bus is being used to help children combat bullying. However, several online complaints have made their rounds over the past few days.

The biggest complaint is that the bus features a painting of fashion photographer Terry Richardson dressed as Jesus (see photo above). Terry Richardson has been accused several times of exploiting underage models and has a very bad reputation in the fashion industry. Although he denies the perverted accusations, there are several sexually explicit pictures with him and his "models" online. Apparently, Terry Richardson is on the bus shooting a documentary on Lady Gaga's bullying efforts.

One of the other complaints is that Lady Gaga is using the bus as a way to unleash unsold tickets for her current tour in order to make venues appear full. The unverified claim has been made on several Facebook and Twitter posts. As you can see from this picture posted on Twitter, despite Lady Gaga's PR team claiming her Tacoma show was "sold out," there were empty sections even after all the ticket giveaways.

Have you been to Lady Gaga's Born Brave Bus yet? Are the allegations true? Tell us in the Comments section.

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Jemuel DaSilva is a Communication Studies student at the University of Las Vegas (UNLV). He has covered gay events for the university and local news station since 2010. He plans to attend law school after he graduates in 2013.

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