Lady Gaga makes rare public appearance with boyfriend, tweets kissing photo

 It's clear Lady Gaga isn't one to shy away from the spotlight, considering the way she parades around in over-the-top ensembles and tweets semi-nude photos of herself to her more than 30 million followers.

But the "Born This Way" songstress rarely makes public appearances with her boyfriend of more than a year, actor Taylor Kinney. Last night, however, Gaga not only hit a party with her 31-year-old main squeeze, she shared a smooch with him at the event and (of course) posted it to Twitter.

Gaga hangs with boyfriend Taylor Kinney and his co-star Jesse Spencer. (Twitter)

Considering Kinney only has 36,000 Twitter followers, and the show itself has under 7,000, Gaga's support probably did make a difference in getting some Little Monsters to tune in.
The couple has been dating for just over a year and met while shooting the music video for Gaga's tune "You and I" in July 2011. They broke up briefly in May, but quickly reunited.
Over the summer Gaga, 26, was spotted taking her beau to her father's restaurant in Manhattan (the same eatery she recently blamed for helping her gain 25 pounds) and a few weeks later tweeted out a photo of her and Kinney skinny dipping. We're assuming Dad approved of the restaurant visit, not the nude swimming part.