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06.09.2009 9:23am EDT
(New York) “American Idol” runner-up Adam Lambert has landed the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, where he talks about sex, drugs and his “Idol” experiences.
The 27-year-old singer from San Diego acknowledges in an interview that he’s gay, and says it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Says Lambert: “I’m proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It’s just another part of me.”Lambert says he was inspired to audition for the Fox network singing competition after having a “psychedelic experience” at the Burning Man festival in Nevada.
Lambert says he knew “American Idol” was his “only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it’s fast and broad.”
Its ridiculous that it has even been a question!
It’s ashamed everybody makes a big deal when you’re Gay. But when you’re Straight, everybody is happy. Why should people matter whether you’re Gay or Straight. Nobody should assume anybody is either or, because there are just as many gays as straights in America. Just ask or wait and you shall receive.
I voted for Adam Lambert on American Idol but At&t rigged the votes so Kris Allen could win. Kris Allen is an Anti-gay Christian from Conway, Arkansas and the dude cannot sing.
@philip – Really? Seriously you think there are “just as many gays as straight?”….wish that were the case but would like to know what alternate universe you live in where we are NOT the minority? As far as Adam Lambert goes, aside from his amazing vocal skills, he is a great performer and as my family watched him in the show it was because we felt a kindred spirit due to his sexuality that we were even more enthusiastic for him. The idea that our sexuality shouldn’t matter is something that I don’t necessarily buy into. Should I be discriminated because I am gay? NO! But it is one part of who I am (a part of who Adam is) and therefor if you are in the public eye it is a point of discussion, just as we do gossip about straight actors and their sex lives. I am glad that Adam made no beef about being gay and is confident in himself to live OUT and PROUD. That is exactly the type of role model (being Out) that people need to see. One that makes NO APOLOGIES for being gay…or one that hides it even though we all know differently – ala Aiken (that jealous bitch).
Fortunately or unfortunately I agree with Joe. Kris really should have come in, perhaps in fourth place. He just doesn’t have that good of a voice. It’s his more or less main stream appearance that the little girls and middle mindless Americans who shot him ahead of the real winner Adam Lambert. Certainly Adams homosexuality was in the minds of many people and, of course, being the homophobic people they are, also voted for Kris. Soon enough Kris will be totally forgotten about and Adam will have the brilliant career, crown of American Idol notwithstanding. Just like that tub that beat out Clay Akin. Once again there was the homosexual issue which stood in Clay’s way. So where is Ruben now? We rarely ever see him, thank goodness. As Barbara Walters of The View likes to point out . . . “It’s a Family Show”
He makes me so happy! To take the “gay question” like “no big deal.” That is EXACTLY what will change this country.
BTW. Did anyone notice that when Ryan Gayquest asked Adam’s family to stand (at the end of the show) his boyfriend stood next to the parents. Ryan TOTALLY ignored him. It was such a cruel slap in the face. But I haven’t seen ANYONE mention it. What’s up with that?
Can’t wait for Adam’s best-selling album to come OUT!! YAY! Kris is a good kid, with fine vocal talents, but let’s face it, Adam was the clear winning STAR!
Philip, we gays are a minority in this country….In fashioning our strategies for future equality gains, we must never lose sight of that. Our news cannot fill as big a newspaper as can straight news simply because there so many less of us. We are about 5% or about 16 million out of about 380 million. If we were 160 million, our presence would be far, far, far more obvious that it is already, we wouldn’t need to fear walking hand in hand with other members of the same sex, we would get EQUAL TIME with the straights on TV ads, news coverage, programming etc and instead of say only 3 openly gay members of congress Jared Polis (CO, Tammy Baldwin (WI), Barney Frank (MA) by 2015 HALF of all Congresspersons would be openly gay. Same for all the state legislatures. Our political cloout would be a million times larger and more powerful and we would have already achieved marriage equality in all 50 states and in all of territories and in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico by now. Such is clearly not the case. We have always have to fight and still we are being steamrolled by the majority in less fair-minded parts of this land.
Sorry, it is wishful thinking to say there are as many gays as there are straights in this country.
And until we gays are willing to take responsibility for OUR share of bringing up a brand new generation with the help of today’s resources and technologies, the current reality is a very painful reminder that the straights we so heartily “loathe and hate” are in truth needed to prevent this country from becoming a rapidly declining population of mostly the very old pushing other of the very old around in wheelchairs as WE gays don’t have guts and the MOXIE to take charge of some of this bringing up a new generation ourselves. WE don’t want to do “this” and WE don’t want to do “that kind of icky stuff”, because we would become so much less “fashionably queer”, if WE DID THAAAT KIND OF THIIING.
Gay-parented families are now thankfully in fashion amongst even some of the younger same-sex oouples. I love seeing 2 moms and 2 dads here and there in love with each other and with children in tow, adopted and otherwise. That gives me hope for a future where gay couples are bright and cheery, enjoying their youthful energy, each other and their kids unstead of being far too prematurely on the way to becoming bitter, cynical, vinegary, always angry, battle-scarred, profanity-spewing oldsters.
The anger is needed now, but hopefully that won’t always be the case.
But equally numbered with the straights, sorry that currently is not the reality in this land.
Kris Allen will go the same way as some previous American Idol winners that have not done much. Look at Ruben Studdard, Taylor Hicks and Fantasia Barrino (who I do think is talented). There have been non-winners who have had tremendous careers such as Clay Aiken, Chris Daughtry, Jennifer Hudson, etc. Not to worry, Adam Lambert will go on to great things too. Queen may end up with a new front man!
Adam was robbed by AT&T.
My gut feeling was that he was so good a performer, somehow he wouldn’t win. I kinda wondered why he went on “Idol”–talent so far beyond the rest of the pack. As has been said elsewhere, coming in #2 can be much better, because you’re not micromanaged, sanitized for tween consumption and packaged. He has a phenomenal talent and he’s obviously willing to work hard to continue getting better. It’ll be fun to watch him rise.
Good for Adam!
I’m soo glad he’s one of us.
If you judge people you have no time to love them.don’t be afraid to be who you are, god bless you adam and the gay community.
Kudos to Adam coming out publicly. Thank you! My boyfriend and I can’t wait to buy your first album because we both loved ya on idol (and we’ll probably buy Kris’s too, but we voted for you
Thanks for making us proud, being a great singer, and coming out now!
I thought he could of passed for a straight goth,he really wasn’t effeminate.I see straight guys very fem nowadays,which is a nice change.
No, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Unlike Clay Aiken, Adam never made any attempt to build up an “I’m not gay” myth around himself. So in coming out now he doesn’t have to dig himself out of a credibility hole created by a long period of denial.
Adam certainly didn’t make any effort to squelch the steady buzz about his sexuality. Indeed, he was visibly just waiting for A.I. to wrap so that he could just officially come out. I mean, come one, he was on the cover of Entertainment Weekly and it pretty much declared he was gay by proxy. After all, actual straight guys usually feel the need to disprove rumors that they’re gay.