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    What Do Adam Lambert and Details Have in Common?

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    Image of Clare Clare
    10/21/09

    In reply to What Do Adam Lambert and Details Have in Common?
    Has anyone else pointed out that that cover shot makes Adam Lambert look like a young, sexy, gay Elvis? #adamlambert
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    Image of BBooms BBooms
    10/20/09

    In reply to What Do Adam Lambert and Details Have in Common?
    Bottom line, reason they should've used a male model, is because Adam Lambert looks like an awkward virgin who has no idea what to do with a woman. Which makes sense, but still. Not sexy. #adamlambert
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    10/20/09

    In reply to What Do Adam Lambert and Details Have in Common?
    What I find most disturbing here is that, in fig. 2, the model is so not turned on that her legs seem to have fused mid-thigh. #adamlambert
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    Image of ms_priestypants ms_priestypants
    10/20/09

    @ms_priestypants: Also, that the front page puts "Are you living beyond your means?" right above "The return of the corduroy suit!".

    Because everyone knows corduroy suits are for The Poors. #adamlambert
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    10/20/09

    In reply to What Do Adam Lambert and Details Have in Common?
    I think they were just trying to balance out all of those other photo shoots—you know, the dozens upon dozens of edgy editorials in which they made staunchly heterosexual leading men pose in flagrante with dudes. #adamlambert
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    10/20/09

    @iplaudius: Ha, touché! I sort of think that is a separate issue, one I wholly support. Although it has almost been done before. #adamlambert
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    10/20/09

    @MattGaymon: Thanks for pointing out that article. I wonder what it felt like to be a Rock Hudson in those situations. It cracks me up that sweating and massage used to be called “body-building.” How far we’ve come (sad trombone). #adamlambert
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    10/20/09

    @iplaudius: Whereas Tony Curtis was a proto-Lambert! (not really)
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    Edited by MattGaymon at 10/20/09 2:57 PM MattGaymon was starred MattGaymon was unstarred
    Image of snugbug snugbug
    10/20/09

    In reply to What Do Adam Lambert and Details Have in Common?
    What do Adam Lambert and Details have in common? They're both worshiped by hairdressers. #adamlambert
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    Image of Meg Meg
    10/20/09

    In reply to What Do Adam Lambert and Details Have in Common?
    I don't know. I think there is room for debate on whether the pics are just sexy or catering to the straight fan base or blurring lines or just for some cheap, easy publicity. And I think there is also room for debate on the tone chosen for the article, which was "as a gay man, how do you deal with all these crazy, horny ladies throwing their underwear and shit at you?" And to some extent "how is this possible?" Which I find the more insulting.

    But I think it's a bit much to pull that one quote (which was part of a larger quote about an especially aggressive female fan) from the rest and make it seem as if he's somehow stepping into the closet, or starting "freaky" talk. I mean, he mentions repeatedly that he is gay, mentions his bf, but also mentions that he thinks it's great if women can find him sexy, see him as a sex symbol, even though they -- and everyone else -- are well aware of his sexual orientation. #adamlambert
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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    10/20/09

    In reply to What Do Adam Lambert and Details Have in Common?
    How many times have we heard a female starlet say she likes kissing women sometimes but isn't sleeping with them or gay? #adamlambert
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    10/20/09

    In reply to What Do Adam Lambert and Details Have in Common?
    It's entirely possible that I watch too much Real World...but don't some of the gay boys actually like tongue-slobbing the ladeeez just to hear them squeal and develop big comical inert crushes while they try to get the boy in bed in order to fake make-out, possibly dry hump, and then go in the confessional to say how much they "will totally turn Davis straight if it's the last thing I do!"

    This does happen, right? #adamlambert
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    10/20/09

    @Spirit Fingers: I had the exact same thought (though considerably less well-developed). I'm pretty sure this means we need to turn off the TV and make some real-life gay friends. #adamlambert
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    10/20/09

    @DahlELama: True. But does this mean they won't all touch your boobies and tell you that something... your hair/clothes/nails/shoes/Martha Stewart serving bowls are just "simply dreadful?"

    This, I would actually like and find helpful. #adamlambert
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    Image of blix blix
    10/20/09

    @Spirit Fingers: Heh. "Who picked out that outfit, a blind rodeo clown"? #adamlambert
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    10/20/09

    @blix: What? Just because Dress Barn doesn't fit your example of "fashion forward" doesn't mean double-knit dungarees with front pleating and tapered ankles, in Calico floral, can't be rockin' hot. #adamlambert
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    Image of blix blix
    10/20/09

    @Spirit Fingers: I like your style. #adamlambert
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    Image of ms_priestypants ms_priestypants
    10/20/09

    @DahlELama: I do have a certain couple who, when they get very very drunk, text me and request an egg for their baby. Sort of similar? #adamlambert
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    10/20/09

    @ms_priestypants: Ah, yes--I believe I learned from Sex and the City that that can happen, even while sober. #adamlambert
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    Image of stella stella
    10/20/09

    In reply to What Do Adam Lambert and Details Have in Common?
    I think this photoshoot is problematic for a few reasons, but not because it's Adam "pretending to be straight." I think many criticisms could be made, but NOT that Adam Lambert is "ashamed" and certainly not that he isn't "loud, queer, and proud." I mean, this guy is unequivocally gay. He is making out with his boyfriend for the paparazzi, he is going to gay clubs, he is wearing wings from the Bob Mackie show room. The man is the definition of loud, queer, and proud in my book.

    The problem with the details photoshoot is its objectification of women. That women are the naked play things of fully-clothed powerful men, to be used, and abused, and discarded ... especially in this case, with a gay man, who harbors no emotional attachment. It's even worse that he's gay, in a sense, because there's no adoration there. Merely a physical assertion of dominance, power, etc ... Right? #adamlambert
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    Image of checkyaself checkyaself
    10/20/09

    @stella: Good point. Women are not only sexual objects for straight men but gay ones as well. #adamlambert
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    the tiniest mexican promoted this comment checkyaself was starred checkyaself was unstarred
    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    10/20/09

    In reply to What Do Adam Lambert and Details Have in Common?
    Pic #2: Chiropractor in training. #adamlambert
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    10/20/09

    In reply to What Do Adam Lambert and Details Have in Common?
    Oh come on Crankypants, these pictures are sexy and tongue-in-something. I think Details (and Adam Lambert) deserves more credit than this, what with the employment of queers like Michael Chabon and Augusten Burroughs and the ironic articles about sexuality in just about EVERY issue.

    If you're going to complain about a closeted magazine, complain about GQ. When was the last time it put an openly gay man on its cover, and yet it's gayer than Entertainment Weekly. Details is just doin its thing. As is Adam.
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    Image of tell Dolly Parton again tell Dolly Parton again
    10/20/09

    @MattGaymon: Michael Chabon is married to a lady with 4 kids. That said, his books can be super gay, so carry on. #adamlambert
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    10/20/09

    @tell Dolly Parton again: He has openly discussed his affair with a man, so I'm extending the queer umbrella for argument's sake. I didn't call him gay.

    That said, I think he's no longer a Details columnist.
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    Edited by MattGaymon at 10/20/09 12:12 PM MattGaymon was starred MattGaymon was unstarred
    Image of BowlingForDollars BowlingForDollars
    10/20/09

    @tell Dolly Parton again: So? I know plenty of married people that are most likely gay. Being married means nothing except that they aren't brave enough to be gay. #adamlambert
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    Image of checkyaself checkyaself
    10/20/09

    @BowlingForDollars: So if a man openly discusses an affair he had with another man but marries a woman he is still in the closet and in denial?
    Oh silly me, we all know bisexual men are a myth, like unicorns and weapons of mass destruction.
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    MattGaymon promoted this comment Edited by checkyaself at 10/20/09 1:02 PM checkyaself was starred checkyaself was unstarred
    Image of BowlingForDollars BowlingForDollars
    10/20/09

    @checkyaself: I'm not speaking specifically about Chabon, but I *am* saying there are plenty of married people who are carrying on homosexual affairs who are most likely gay, but would never live openly as gay people because they are fearful.

    So when people say, "X can't be gay because X is married" it's crazy. #adamlambert
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    Image of tell Dolly Parton again tell Dolly Parton again
    10/20/09

    @BowlingForDollars: Very true, but I would drive myself crazy if I wondered how many public marriages are shams, so I tend to accept them. Except Tom and Katie, of course. #adamlambert
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    Image of Parah_Salin Parah_Salin
    10/20/09

    @MattGaymon: I always thought GQ stood for "Go Queers", but then someone told me it was "Gentlemen's Quarterly." Damn, I should have mentioned that when Katie Couric asked me what I read. I could have seemed literate and tolerant of filthy gays at the same time, instead of just dumb. #adamlambert
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    10/20/09


    @Parah_Salin: Your comment/performance is all kinds of boring but it gives me a reason to link one more thing this whole thing makes me think of: a gratuitous Bruce Weber picture of Jeff Aquilon! Now that is gay. #adamlambert
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    Image of Mike Byhoff Mike Byhoff
    10/20/09

    In reply to What Do Adam Lambert and Details Have in Common?
    The way his tongue is approaching that girl reminds me of the first time I attempted to taste marmite. The second after I tasted it, I wiped it off my tongue with a napkin. #adamlambert
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    Image of Beau Nerd Beau Nerd
    10/20/09

    In reply to What Do Adam Lambert and Details Have in Common?
    What exactly is he trying to do with/to/at that breast in the second picture? #adamlambert
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    Image of rudi_freude rudi_freude
    10/20/09

    @Beau Nerd: He's trying to shield his eyes from the sight of it. #adamlambert
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    Image of Beau Nerd Beau Nerd
    10/20/09

    @rudi_freude: Blinded by the headlight? #adamlambert
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    10/20/09

    In reply to What Do Adam Lambert and Details Have in Common?
    I also liked the "See for yourself why every woman in America wants to sleep with Adam Lambert" line from the press release. #adamlambert
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    10/20/09

    @mattchew03: You know that gorgeous, enormous closet in Sex and the City: The Movie that Big buys for Carrie instead of an engagement ring? I picture that to be where the entire Details staff resides when it's not being used for filming. #adamlambert
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    10/20/09

    @DahlELama: I do! And I imagine they all constantly fight over that one pair of Manolos, too.

    Fun fact: I once caught my dad watching the Sex and the City movie on HBO. As soon as I entered the room, he quickly turned the channel and acted like he didn't know what I was talking about when I asked why he was watching the movie. Afterward, my mom told me that she's caught him watching it at least three or four times. #adamlambert
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    Image of ms_priestypants ms_priestypants
    10/20/09

    @mattchew03: d00d, ur dad is t0tes teh geigh. #adamlambert
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    Image of ArmCandy ArmCandy
    10/20/09

    In reply to What Do Adam Lambert and Details Have in Common?
    Why do people insist on wearing chipped polish to photo shoots? You're going to be on the cover of Details -- you can't touch up with a Sharpie? #adamlambert
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    Brian Moylan promoted this comment ArmCandy was starred ArmCandy was unstarred
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