--- title: Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda Sign Open Letter On Gun Violence description: Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and hundreds of other celebrities signed an open letter to Congress, urging an end to gun violence. canonical: https://time.com/4379774/lady-gaga-katy-perry-j-lo-sign-billboard-open-letter-gun-violence/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-23T15:51:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T07:31:30.000Z og:title: Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda Sign Open Letter on Gun Violence og:description: "We call on Congress to do more.." og:url: https://time.com/4379774/lady-gaga-katy-perry-j-lo-sign-billboard-open-letter-gun-violence/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fa752a5519a6c39/6988991c2dce01bad99e9957/lady-gaga-open-letter-billboard-gun-violence.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Nation Mourns Victims Of Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda Sign Open Letter on Gun Violence twitter:description: "We call on Congress to do more.." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fa752a5519a6c39/6988991c2dce01bad99e9957/lady-gaga-open-letter-billboard-gun-violence.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda and More Sign Open Letter to Congress Demanding Tighter Gun Control > Sponsored content. 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The vigil honored the victims of the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando on June 12\. (Credit: Katie Falkenberg—Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Updated: Dec 13, 2023 7:31 AM UTCPublished: Jun 23, 2016 3:51 PM UTC While [Democrats staged a sit-in for gun control on the House floor](http://time.com/4379215/see-inside-house-democrats-gun-control-sit-in/) on Wednesday, entertainers like Lady Gaga and Lin-Manuel Miranda joined forces with _Billboard_ and Everytown for Gun Safety to craft an [open letter](http://www.billboard.com/open-letter/) to Congress, calling for a “safe and sane end to [gun violence](http://time.com/4374446/americans-gun-control/).” The letter comes in the wake of the [murder of singer Christina Grimmie](http://time.com/4365137/christina-grimmie-dead-celebrities-pay-tribute/) and the [mass shooting (the largest in U.S. history) at Pulse nightclub](http://time.com/4366957/orlando-shooting-juan-guerrero-christopher-drew-leinonen/), both in Orlando, Fla. in early June. The [letter](http://www.billboard.com/open-letter/) is a call to action for gun control and safety, asking Congress to require background checks for every gun sale and to block anyone on the terrorist watch list from buying guns. “As leading artists and executives in the music industry, we are adding our voices to the chorus of Americans demanding change,” the letter reads. “Music always has been celebrated communally, on dancefloors and at concert halls. But this life-affirming ritual, like so many other daily experiences—going to school or church or work—now is threatened, because of gun violence in this country.The one thing that connects the recent tragedies in Orlando is that it is far too easy for dangerous people to get their hands on guns. We call on Congress to do more to prevent the gun violence that kills more than 90 Americans every day and injures hundreds more.” _Billboard_ reached out to more than 180 artists and executives in the music industry asking for their support in ending gun violence; singer Joan Jett was the first to offer her signature and support, while Lady Gaga ([who read the names of every Orlando shooting victim at a vigil in Los Angeles after the tragedy](http://time.com/4368629/orlando-shooting-celebrity-response-lady-gaga/)) followed shortly thereafter. Other industry signatories include Miranda, Jennifer Lopez, Cher, Kesha, Barbra Streisand, Common, Alicia Keys, DJ Khaled, Sia, Paul McCartney, Iggy Pop, Pearl Jam, Yoko Ono, Questlove, Joan Jett, Billy Joel, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and the Dixie Chicks. **Correction:** The original version of this story misspelled Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first name. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4379774/lady-gaga-katy-perry-j-lo-sign-billboard-open-letter-gun-violence/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4379774/lady-gaga-katy-perry-j-lo-sign-billboard-open-letter-gun-violence/"},"headline":"Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda and More Sign Open Letter to Congress Demanding Tighter Gun Control","datePublished":"2016-06-23T15:51:04.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T07:31:30.000Z","description":"\"We call on Congress to do more to prevent the gun violence that kills more than 90 Americans every day and injures hundreds more.\"","url":"https://time.com/4379774/lady-gaga-katy-perry-j-lo-sign-billboard-open-letter-gun-violence/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","celebrities","Katy Perry","Gun Violence","Lady Gaga","Jennifer Lopez"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fa752a5519a6c39/6988991c2dce01bad99e9957/lady-gaga-open-letter-billboard-gun-violence.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fa752a5519a6c39/6988991c2dce01bad99e9957/lady-gaga-open-letter-billboard-gun-violence.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Nation Mourns Victims Of Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History","caption":"Nation Mourns Victims Of Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History","creditText":"Lady Gaga speaks during a candlelight vigil and rally hosted by the Los Angeles LGBT Center at Los Angeles City Hall on June 13, 2016. 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