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Miss Anita Manbadly
11/23/09

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(to the tune of Fat Girl Polka: Straights can have him, gays don't want him, he's too gay for me, he's too gay for me, he's too gay for meeee..."
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BlinkyMcChuck
11/18/09

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I was at Out during the startup and it was a piece of cake to get a straight model to do the cover. They were like, "Cover?" And then pushing you down to get to the shoot. But gay models? No. "I don't want to be seen as gay." And yet that was of course what the readers wanted.
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BlinkyMcChuck
11/18/09

@BlinkyMcChuck: Gay models, that is.
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Spirit Fingers
11/17/09

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As far as I knew, the gay boys sometimes like kissing the girly-faces. Because we're pretty and they're pretty and pretty sometimes likes to kiss itself. Not sure why it means big bad mediacorp is trying to cage poor Lambert in. I say do what you do. You like the boy sex. Groovy! You like straddling girls and flicking tongues. Power Up, dude! (Just as long as the girls know you'd prefer the boy sex). Just don't be some strange, affected Anime caricature that no one likes except comic book fanboys who have a hard time getting anyone of either gender to "space tentacle" their nubby bits. That is what is really at question here. Not his sexuality per se, but his choice in fashion, eye cosmetics, and hair shenanigans. Get him a better stylist and less hair product and the world will thank you. #adamlambert
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manchops
11/17/09

@Spirit Fingers: yep, gotta come clean. I'm one of those gay men who can get bombed at parties and likes making out with chicks. It's weird. It's confusing. It's also fucking hot. #adamlambert
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robdcee
11/17/09

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I just ran for public office in a blue collar, very "Middle America" town. Everyone here knew my sexual orientation and nobody much cared. What voters were more concerned about were my stances on the old issues of taxes, jobs, and quality of life. That wouldn't have been the case even ten years ago here, but America has changed in certain ways.

Give Lambert a break. He's a new generation of gay man and hence may not accord--nor need he--with set behavioral ideas. Hell, set ideas was what "gay liberation" was supposed to free us from.

He's alright by this out, proud gay man.
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VioletViolet
11/17/09

@robdcee: I agree. I think he's going for a sort-of-almost bisexual glam-rock thing, which, since he's out already, shouldn't make a difference. And if he were any glittery-er, he'd be labeled as a stereotype. He can't win. #adamlambert
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rledrialmder
11/17/09

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Lambert's glitter & makeup put him in the Wayne Newton category, not the "too gay" one. You just think that way because you've grown up in the homophobic, queer-cleansed hiphop era. When Adam Lambert becomes as outrageous and interesting as Lou Reed or Jobriath or early 1970's Bowie, we'll talk "gay".
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Aatom
11/17/09

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When I saw the Details spread I started giggling immediately. Who is she trying to fool? NPH doesn't give us or the straights the willies because he seems so comfortably and naturally boyish. He's allowed to play straight because we all suspect that he would be the "man" should any of us be lucky enough to bed him. Lambert has a bottom-boy dilemma - we don't like our leading men and role models to be fey, unless they're buffoons.

So it seems to me that the gay "backlash" over this type of behavior is probably more about enforcing queer gender roles than genuine concern over "how gay" he really is or appears to be. #adamlambert
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Brad Brown
11/17/09

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Is Levi Johnston too straight for the gays? Maybe Levi and Adam could learn from one another, each helping the other gravitate towards a center that would be pleasing to everyone. #adamlambert
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snugbug
11/17/09

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I'm the kind of straight girl who tends to crush on gay men in a sexual way. But this Adam Lambert revolts me. He has none of the wit and style I expect in gay boys. He's just a 80s-retro mannequin who has yet to demonstrate proof of intelligence, culture or taste. A sorry epigone of times past. Every time he opens his maws, he unleashes stupidity. He's calculated yet uneducated. A proletarian rube who dons dark nail varnish to make up for his profound lack of sophistication when it comes to gay know-how.

Also, while he can belt the chorus on Broadway musicals--bit player that he is--he's not even remotely as good-looking or as talented as Dustin Lance Black. In short, I'm not sold. #adamlambert
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
11/17/09

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Can't Adam play straight for gate? #adamlambert
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iplaudius
11/17/09

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Does not compute; he is openly gay.

Maybe publicly confirming a “homonormative” identity over and over again is just too boring for a young would-be rock star? #adamlambert
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MiracleDrug
11/17/09

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Correlation doesn't imply causation. Maybe Clay Aiken isn't popular any more because his fanbase was composed of people that get distracted by the jangling keychain of whatever is current in popular culture. #adamlambert
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BookishLookish
11/17/09

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Here's how: Be incredibly talented, incredibly attractive and incredibly charming and everyone falls in love with you, it is beyond their control.

Adam, get on that, doll. #adamlambert
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City_Dater
11/17/09

@BookishLookish:

Yep.

Anyone who is only famous thanks to the power of Televised Karaoke For Middle America is already as mainstream as mainstream can get, no matter who he prefers to see naked. The photo shoots with ladies and boring "provocative" comments are more likely attempts to not disappear entirely without actually doing anything creative or compelling, not belated efforts to enter the closet. #adamlambert
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HelenofPeel
11/17/09

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You can make enough with a gay fan base, but if you aren't fitting a stereotype expected of you, then you're on your own.

Hate to say it, but it's true, from this transsexual woman's perspective. Gays perpetuate certain required stereotypes in order to have their support. #adamlambert
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Freddie DeBoer
11/17/09

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Look, there's a burgeoning crisis within the gay rights movement, of which I consider myself a part: a movement that was for decades about liberation and the right to live ones own life in the way one wishes to has devolved, through a series of well-meaning but ultimately destructive moves, into a group of people taking a reductive and deterministic view of human sexuality. I can't tell you how many times I meet people who will espouse a very enlightened vision of gay marriage and gay rights, but who have this incredibly corrosive habit of constantly pronouncing people gay or closeted as a kind of insult of ad hominem. That, or insisting that there simply is no space for people to be experimental or questioning regarding their sexual orientation-- that the minute someone expresses or feels any sort of sexual indeterminacy, they have revealed their true, gay nature, and that they are just some pathetic closet case to be outed or shamed.

It's a mistake philosophically, and I think in the long run will prove to be a mistake strategically, as well. #adamlambert
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Bill Zilla
11/17/09

@Freddie DeBoer: I guess I see what you're saying, but just because I respect a person's rights doesn't mean I have to avoid bagging on them for stuff they shouldn't be ashamed of. #adamlambert
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valet_of_the_dolls
11/17/09

@Bill Zilla: I think you may have just illustrated his point. #adamlambert
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Airvault
11/17/09

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Why isn't anyone treating him like James Franco? He's kissing a girl in that photo so he must be straight! #adamlambert
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