Unless you live under a rock, American Idol runner up Adam Lambert is gay. Yes girls, the eye liner doesn’t lie. He likes the guys. But what’s the big deal here?
Lambert officially comes out in this week’s Rolling Stone cover story, which features a very rock star pose. The sad thing is that 1) that this is such a frigging big deal, and 2) the cover is getting the cat calls from critics for being so gay.
First of all, my question is why this is such a big fucking deal? Welcome to 2009, America!! It’s been over a decade since Ellen broke down TV and media’s gay 5th wall, with Rosie, NPH, David Hyde Pierce and TR Knight all charging behind her. This isn’t 1980, when being gay- or straight, or a cross dresser, or a Republican for that matter- is a taboo thing. Jeez folks, can we all walk out of the closet together now??? All of the speculation may sell million of US Weekly’s and Star magazines, but let’s stop and be rational. Even if there was a question to Adam’s sexuality, who cares who he sleeps with? Do I care that Tom Cruise fucks Katie Holmes? Or that Rush Limbaugh fucks anyone at all (I know, take a moment and clear your head with that one)? No. Then why Adam?
Then there’s the cover. Oooh, a rock star posing seductively, wearing eye liner and a snake. It’s Axl Rose circa 1990! or is it Iggy Pop, circa 1978! Madonna circa 1985! Britney two years ago…okay, you get the point. It’s some musician stretched across the cover of a magazine posing seductively so the rag sells. Nothing more, nothing less. Yet, because there’s the coming out situation around Adam, it’s a trite, stereotypical cover shot. But now we digress back to point one… who FUCKING CARES??
Point three is why am I commenting on this? I don’t watch American Idol, why am I giving credence to the hoopla? Because I feel for Adam as a person, as a celeb trapped in a bad situation, and as a gay man. You know, putting himself out there on a TV show invites speculation and plenty of trouble, but I find it salacious that it’s reflective on his sexual activity. I’m annoyed that again, in 2009, we as a public are finding a celebrity being gay, or bi, or whatever Lindsey Lohan is, fodder for the water cooler. It only feeds into the hatred that people like that white trash redneck bigot Mike Huckabee spreads as part of their agenda to ‘purify’ America against bad influences and witchcraft. Like gays are flying around on their Harry Potter brooms, waving their magic wands and- poof!- we snagged another unsuspecting straighty!
So it all breaks down to this: who cares who sleeps with who, as long as they are happy? Is the fact that I sleep with a man so bothersome to my neighbors that they can’t function in daily life? I think not, but I also know my neighbors pretty well, and we all get along really well. And if it does, then they are as pathetic as Dick Cheney as he still craves attention 4 months after getting the boot from office… and we all know how well he is functioning in daily life. I just find that it’s so hypocritical of society to judge who is with whom and where and why. As the old adage goes, ‘He who throws stones shouldn’t live in a glass house.’
Sadly, as Adam and this observer can attest, America’s windows seem to get blown out on a daily basis.
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