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11/24/09
If GMA is so scared of gays rubbing their gay parts on each other - fuck em. Leave 'em behind.
11/24/09
As far as I can tell, Mr. Lambert never volunteered himself to be the Rainbow Rosa Parks. He's just a little twinkie who grew up watching Madonna and Christina rubbing themselves against any available surface and couldn't wait for his turn. David Bowie did something very similar to Mick Ronson's guitar in the 70s for god's sake. The first time I saw it I was 10 and I've survived (although I did develop a connoisseurs appreciation for a well done simulated blowjob).
Considering all the fuss, Adam should have just freed willy and received a REAL blowjob for his trouble.
11/24/09
I remember the 70s, and all I have to say is, "Topsy, I'll take Paul Lynde in the center square for the win."
11/24/09
Of course it was a calculated move on his part. I don't think he thought he was going to break down any walls with those gestures. But now he's facing the sort of backlash that comes with expressing your (homo)sexuality in such an overt way. And he will have to start considering himself as some sort of a figure who's representing something bigger than his shitty performances.
I don't want to turn him into one, but he is now a central figure in the American homosexual movement whether he planned on it or not. So far he's faced the "Is he gay enough?" debate and now he's facing the question of "How gay is too gay?"
No one recognizes it yet, but he's the first of his kind.
11/24/09
And to all the people complaining Lambert did some harm to the gay rights movement or is in some other way a horrible person, give me a break. He's a pop singer. He gets to do outrageous garbage. He didn't do anything new and he didn't even push the limits of what other people have done.
Homophobes are not the only people who don't want to see blatant, queer-ness. Sadly, plenty of gays want to keep it in the closet, too.
11/24/09
The guy simulated getting a blowjob on stage and got some complaints...a number that ABC called "moderate." Let's not make the guy out to be some brave martyr for homosexuality who is being attacked because he decided to wave a rainbow flag on stage. It was a trashy move that would have gotten some calls (from angry parents and feminists) even if it was a chick pretending to blow him.
There are other stories to tout as evidence of society's lack of acceptance of homosexuality that would go a lot farther in proving the point than this.
11/24/09
Simulating the blow job wasn't one of them. Sure, Britney, Janet, etc does it, but I don't really consider Janet or Britney classy either.
2.) Good Morning America? Who's even up at that hour? I don't think it's a crucial performance.
3.) Plenty of celebrities do far more "revolting" things and don't sink like stones. Some do though. These days, it's not the story you're in, but the next trick up your sleeve. Plenty of stars are scandal-proof.
4.) As a gay man, I don't look up to Adam as some public icon I need to look good to advance my rights in some way. He's a singer.
5.) GeH SeX or not, that song was terrible. If that's the song he's pushing as the face of the album, then his album is in trouble regardless of the boy kisses he's giving on screen. In fact, this "scandal" will probably sell more copies than the music will.
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I'd actually like to hear what Aaron what's his ass (editor of Out) has to say now. It's all very fancy fine to sit in your little gay office at a gay magazine and preach to the younger generation about how to be gay.
The reality? Kinda complex. Like losing a gig on Good Morning America the month your first album comes out!
Come on Aaron, still feel so righteous about everything gay in the wonderful united states of Amerikkka?
11/24/09
This guy is a joke! He is using gay sex as a marketing tool while eschewing gay civil rights. He is taking one part of our life to make money, while dismissing another part, also so that he can make money. THIS IS NOT HELPFUL, and while he deserves the attention of the pop press and the music communities that support this kind of music, the gay community deserves better, especially on the precipice of such an obvious sink or swim moment in American history.
11/24/09
He is quite literally the first homosexual pop culture icon for an entire generation of young people, who will take their cues from him. In this way, he is a lot like Britney Spears, even outside their shared crap synthesized musical numbness, because a lot of people are placing a lot of value on what he is doing when he himself is not. And I suppose I can understand that in a way, but still, it infuriates me. After his performance I talked to my grandmother, a sixty year old woman who is extremely liberal and sympathetic to the gay cause, and she was horrified. "This is how a lot of homophobic people in this country view gay men, and now he's given them the ammunition they need to continue to profer their hateful and shameless oppression of them." And again, it's not his fault that people are homophobic, or that middle America is full of moralists who want to legislate the lives of others, but when that son of a bitch gets on a stage and fakes a gay sex act, while at the same time dismissing the gay rights movement as something he is outside of- what the hell? Who is this person, and what does he represent? And as best as I can tell, he represents nothing. He has no musical center, no political center, not even a center to his sexuality. He is a capitalist creature, wanting only to sell records and have people buy them, to titilate by co-opting the personal sexual lives of people in this country who are struggling to attain something, something he doesn't care about attaining.
Is he damaging to gay people? No more than Britney Spears was damaging to straight women, which was significant but not something that was their death march. But who does he think he is? If he wants to say his sexuality has no part in who he is as a creative person, then what he did Sunday night should exist. And if he does want his sexuality to be a part of his focus as an entertainer, then I'll be goddamned if he's going to dismiss the struggle for equal rights going on in this country in lieu of being some vapid, heavily made up pop culture figure who isn't even secure enough in his homosexuality to explicitly say he is gay, leaving open that door that he might, just might, make out with a girl one day and that that, somehow, makes all the difference.
The best thing gay people can do is allow him to whither on the national stage, and wait for the day when an actual homosexual breaks through without shame or without consumerist plotting and ploys, and let that person take the gay star spotlight. But as it stands Lady Gaga, while not explicitly gay, is still the better gay rights musican role model hybrid, someone who has the depth to understand the necessity of the movement and its place in the world. That this thing is on stage writhing around trying to shock my grandmother, when in reality she wants to see equality as well as anyone else, is fucking ridiculous. Be gone, you vapid lurch.
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Adam's a talented guy and he was better than that on stage free-for-all. The only thing missing was a cop pretending to break it up only to stop and start to break dance. All of that "entertainment" seemed to affect Lambert's performance, he was way out of tune.
11/24/09
OK, I get it. Business as usual.
11/24/09
At this point he's just an extra on Glee. His music has no popular appeal. At least not to my ears.
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This is understandable.
11/24/09
I think his music is terrible, but he can't be that dumb. Why would he repeat himself, anyway? GMA could have simply asked him.
11/24/09
And what, you are convinced he would not perform the same or similar routine.
Also, GMA should hang their hat on Lambert not simulating oral sex with a leather clad gimp based on Lambert's hesitance to repeat a previous performance.
Like pop-stars are known for varying their live performances from day to day.
If GMA was not convinced, and why would they be, then they made the right decision.
11/24/09
11/24/09
Fame whore does something the managers/handlers/hangers on think will generate "buzz".
Performance completed. Everyon gets on their high horse media choice and pontificates endlessly.
After all that, what? Nothing. You have a stupid performance, lots of verbiage spewn about, and not one bit of progress or tangible sign that any of that energy expended benefitted anyone, in any way.
Now you know why the world is falling apart at the seams. There's lots of energy around, but none of it is moving us forward.
Adam at the AMA's, Janet at the Superbowl. Bill Clinton's beej from Monica.
How bout health care, education, financial stability, senior care, equal rights for all. I guess here is where I am supposed to insert the disclaimer "sorry to be so hoakey", but I'm not gonna do it. It ain't hoakey, it's real life. It's people, children, the very continuation of this thing we call America. I'd rathe rbe hoakey and alive in my beloved country, than cool and decimated. Time to get real peeps.
Whitney cleaned up her act, now it's our turn America.
Viva America!!!
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