Adam Lambert on ‘Behd the Mic’: ‘I Was Ashamed of’ Beg Gay – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• ADAM LAMBERT: 'I'M GAY,' 'I'M BI-CUR'
• ADAM LAMBERT SAYS FACG HOMOPHOBIA EARLY REER PHED HIM TO BE 'AS GAY AS I F---G N BE'
• ADAM LAMBERT ON WHAT’S CHANGED FOR GAY ARTISTS SCE HIS ‘AMERIN IDOL’ RUN
• ADAM LAMBERT BOYIEND 2023: Y, HE IS GAY- WHO IS HE DATG?
• AMERIN IDOL: ADAM LAMBERT THOUGHT BEG GAY WOULD HURT HIS CHANC
• ADAM LAMBERT IN THE ADVOTE: SGER DISH ON NEW ALBUM, BOYIEND AND BEG GAY
• ADAM LAMBERT IN THE ADVOTE: SGER DISH ON NEW ALBUM, BOYIEND AND BEG GAY
• ADAM LAMBERT FAC BACKLASH DUE TO BEG ‘FILTHY, GAY AND ANTI FAY’
• IS ADAM LAMBERT NOT GAY ENOUGH FOR THE GAYS?
• ADAM LAMBERT SAYS HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH POST-'AMERIN IDOL' INSPIRED HIM TO 'BE AS GAY' AS POSSIBLE
• ADAM LAMBERT ON ‘BEHD THE MIC’: ‘I WAS ASHAMED OF’ BEG GAY
• ‘AMERIN IDOL’ ALUM ADAM LAMBERT: BEG GAY ‘A’T A DISABILY’
• ADAM LAMBERT SAYS EARLY CAREER HOMOPHOBIA INSPIRED HIM TO ‘BE AS GAY AS I F-CKG CAN BE’

ADAM LAMBERT: 'I'M GAY,' 'I'M BI-CUR'

"I am gay, and I'm very fortable wh , " 27-year-old Lambert revealed.

"Lambert first revealed that he was gay a ver story Rollg Stone magaze weeks after the May "Amerin Idol" asked by "20/20" why the season-long favore cid not to publicly acknowledge his sexualy until after the show, Lambert said that he didn't want beg gay to upstage him.

"While Lambert now proudly talks about beg gay, he said he's also openly explorg his sexualy.

ADAM LAMBERT SAYS FACG HOMOPHOBIA EARLY REER PHED HIM TO BE 'AS GAY AS I F---G N BE'

"Growg Up GayGrowg up, the San Diego native loved mil theater, dancg, playg drs up and was obssed wh glter -- all terts that Lambert said highlighted his sexual preference om a young age. Instead of the stereotypil "g out" rual homosexual teens have wh parents, Lambert said his mother actually "outed" him, askg him on a r ri home if he wanted a girliend or a boyiend.

"Lambert excelled on stage, performg untls mil theater performanc throughout his teens and early graduatg om high school 2000, Lambert has lived an openly gay liftyle Los Angel -- datg, and stumblg through relatnships like everyone else. I'm the gay guy.

ADAM LAMBERT ON WHAT’S CHANGED FOR GAY ARTISTS SCE HIS ‘AMERIN IDOL’ RUN

There was an Entertament Weekly article that was like, 'Oh, this guy's excg, and may or not be bee he might be gay. (Photo by Arturo Holm/Getty Imag) Cred: Arturo Holm/Getty "There were no gay guys.

" From there, Lambert felt the bt way to effect change was to "be as gay as I f---g n be.

'You helped me talk to my parents about beg gay.

ADAM LAMBERT BOYIEND 2023: Y, HE IS GAY- WHO IS HE DATG?

| Cred: Noam Galai/Getty Imag Now, Lambert believ the mic dtry nsirs a "viable bs move to sign gay talent. " Lambert was honored at the Creative Coaln's annual Sundance Film Ftival gala by Cody Fern, who stars wh him Fairyland, a 1970s/80s g-of-age drama about a teen girl wh gay dads. While many blamed homophobia for his nner-up showg, Lambert took his fame and ran wh , helpg to promote LGBTQ tolerance to middle Ameri, which paved the way for future openly gay artists such as Troye Sivan.

Talk to me about beg an openly gay artist 2019 vers 2009.

AMERIN IDOL: ADAM LAMBERT THOUGHT BEG GAY WOULD HURT HIS CHANC

Is safe to assume that the days, you no longer experience any homophobia the mic dtry? There are always gog to be shas of homophobia — sometim ternalized homophobia that I’ve enuntered om other gay people the dtry.

They might feel that [I am] ‘too gay. What do gay pri mean to you?

’ Then I slowly learned that even wh the gay muny there are lots of different subsets. This month is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts — and the ath of Judy Garland, who was the ultimate gay in to that generatn.

ADAM LAMBERT IN THE ADVOTE: SGER DISH ON NEW ALBUM, BOYIEND AND BEG GAY

So when I learned later that they were like the qutsential gay ins, I was like, ‘Oh, well, I got my tn already.

Do you still stggle wh any ternalized homophobia?

It’s no secret that Adam Lambert is an openly gay in the mic dtry, but who is the lucky person currently holdg the tle of Adam Lambert boyiend? Dpe beg openly gay, Adam has been lked wh several celebri, cludg Ferras and Brad Bell, the past. We will also explore Adam’s early life and how he me out as gay.

ADAM LAMBERT IN THE ADVOTE: SGER DISH ON NEW ALBUM, BOYIEND AND BEG GAY

For Adam, beg a gay man was not difficult bee he was surround by supporters. Lambert’s cisn to e out publicly 2009 was a big moment for him and the world of mic, which had not seen an openly gay male artist achieve mastream succs. Amerin Idol's Adam Lambert mentned an terview that when he dned for season 8, he thought beg gay would hurt his chanc of succs.

When Adam Lambert dned for Amerin Idol  2009, he thought beg gay would hurt his chanc of succs on the show. He beme the first openly gay artist to but at number one on the Billboard 200 chart wh his send album, Trpassg.

And when to Amerin Idol specifilly, took many years for the sgg petn show to feature any openly gay falists; the first openly gay Idol nttant was M. Lambert wasn't technilly out publicly when he was on Amerin Idol, even though most fans believed he is gay. LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- "Amerin Idol" nner-up Adam Lambert nfirmed publicly what he assumed everyone already knew: He is gay.

ADAM LAMBERT FAC BACKLASH DUE TO BEG ‘FILTHY, GAY AND ANTI FAY’

"I don't thk should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I am gay, " Lambert told Rollg Stone magaze. Watch Lambert pose wh a snake for the ver » Wh the petn over, Lambert's public nfirmatn of his homosexualy is preparatn for the "Amerin Idol" natnal tour, which starts next month. Last week, Adam Lambert ma headl when he mented on an Instagram post om Out's sister publitn The Advote about The Whe Lot star Theo Jam eyeg the role of Gee Michael a mored bpic, sayg, "Yay another straight man playg a gay in" wh an eye roll Instagram (@theadvotemag)Now, the Grammy-nomated sger is clarifyg what he meant when he sat down wh Variety at this year's Sundance Film Ftival to promote his upg film Fairyland, sayg that would be "ridiculo" to be ser about such a claim.

"My actual ment, my ltle sarstic ment, was a straight actor playg a gay in, which I do thk is a b different, " he said. "I by no means thk that gay characters n only be played by gay actors.

IS ADAM LAMBERT NOT GAY ENOUGH FOR THE GAYS?

"\u201cAdam Lambert says 's "ridiculo" to claim that gay characters n only be played by gay actors, but straight actors playg "gay ins" is a different story. Lambert not McNairy's performance as proof that gay men don't always need to play gay characters.

"Later the terview, Lambert also said that homophobia was "probably" the reason he lost the season eight Amerin Idol crown to Kris Allen. Adam Lambert's rise om "Amerin Idol" nner-up to gay cultural in has been tly unprecented the fickle world of pop mic.

Everybody knows I’m gay, " he says. "After scribg his ntroversial 2009 Amerin Mic Awards performance "a b reactnary, " Lambert adds that he's "bee fond of the post-gay ncept": Before "Idol, " Lambert’s life, he says, “wasn’t fed by my sexualy, ” but now “all of a sudn ’s all about beg gay.

ADAM LAMBERT SAYS HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH POST-'AMERIN IDOL' INSPIRED HIM TO 'BE AS GAY' AS POSSIBLE

No one teach you how to be a gay celebry. A petn mandg for the sger to be dropped om the event has been signed by over 15, 000 Sgaporeans due to fears that the openly gay sger will perform “lewd acts” on stage ont of children.

Homosexualy is currently illegal the untry due to a lonial-era law that was challenged by activists last year. Back May, the Sgaporean ernment banned a song and mic vio by a popular K-Pop star bee they portrayed same-sex marriage and homosexual them. He's gay.

He'll do gay thgs. He'll turn everyone gay and ce a big pk gay rt. Adam Lambert is, as we all know, gay, and so such qutns might normally e off as ridiculo and maybe even a b sultg ( the sense that, what — you thk he’s lyg about beg gay, or that he n jt turn on and off wh a swch?

ADAM LAMBERT ON ‘BEHD THE MIC’: ‘I WAS ASHAMED OF’ BEG GAY

“Like most gay men, I’m drawn to really nfint women. The publitn asked Adam if he thks there “are still lots of gay Hollywood actors who pretend to be straight? Adam Lambert has the difficult task of beg a megastar while beg openly gay.

How n he be butch enough for the mastream but gay enough for his homo fans? He n't, and the gays are fightg back there was his ladytastic shoot for Details and then we lled Lambert out for tryg to talk about female genalia gay magaze Out. In his edor's letter the upg Out 100 issue, acrdg to Towelroad, he wr:It's only bee this ver is a group shot that clus a straight woman that your team would allow you to be photographed at all - albe wh the veat that we mt avoid makg you look "too gay.

‘AMERIN IDOL’ ALUM ADAM LAMBERT: BEG GAY ‘A’T A DISABILY’

Gettg gay stars like yourself is another matter. Much easier to stick you Details, where your homosexualy n be ntralized by havg you awkwardly grabbg a woman's breast and sayg, "Women are pretty. " So are ktens, Adam, but don't mean you have to make out wh, don't Lambert make himself look "too gay" wh all that gltery and eyeler and flamboyance?

ADAM LAMBERT SAYS EARLY CAREER HOMOPHOBIA INSPIRED HIM TO ‘BE AS GAY AS I F-CKG CAN BE’

And lns and lns of Amerins still voted for him (even though power gay Michael Mto is regrettg his cisn). There is no way that any celebry n make a livg off of jt a gay fan base—there jt aren't enough of to support a giant megastar.

Maybe teenage girls and straight women want him to ntue beg the radil fairy that was troduced on specter of Clay Aiken—the other succsful gay Idol—hangs over Lambert's reer, bee after g out, Aiken hasn't sold nearly as many CDs as when he was the closet. The difference is that Aiken always skirted the issue and nied that he was gay, tryg to urt his rabid fan base of girls that wanted to marry him.