Contents:
- ADAM LAMBERT SAYS EARLY CAREER HOMOPHOBIA INSPIRED HIM TO ‘BE AS GAY AS I F-CKG CAN BE’
- ADAM LAMBERT SAYS FACG HOMOPHOBIA EARLY REER PHED HIM TO BE 'AS GAY AS I F---G N BE'
ADAM LAMBERT SAYS EARLY CAREER HOMOPHOBIA INSPIRED HIM TO ‘BE AS GAY AS I F-CKG CAN BE’
After (not) wng the aforementned mic petn, he blazed a much-need rabow trail for queer micians when he historilly beme the first openly gay artist to top the US album charts, earned a Grammy nomatn for his top 10 smasher Whataya Want om Me and had nservative viewers seethg – woo! Speakg wh GAY TIMES at Sony Mic’s headquarters London, he adms: “That’s kd of my USP, right?
Most, if not all, vers on High Drama sound like the words me om Adam himself, cludg Bonnie Tyler’s dance-rock classic Holdg Out for a Hero (the bt ver sce Jennifer Snrs’ Shrek 2, we should add) Culture Club’s new wave h Do You Really Want to Hurt Me and My Attic, sung by fellow GAY TIMES Magaze ver star (and Whataya Want om Me wrer) P! ’” While he emphasis that his rerd label ‘wasn’t full of homophob’ and that his team were “genuely exced” and supportive of his cisn to be as gay as possible, Adam adms they were “sred”: “It’s a bs, and if you’re not gog to sell, people get nervo. “It was a hard bs to navigate as a gay man.
’ And the journalists terviewg me were askg qutns about the gay muny. This ver story featur the March 2023 edn of GAY TIMES Magaze.
ADAM LAMBERT SAYS FACG HOMOPHOBIA EARLY REER PHED HIM TO BE 'AS GAY AS I F---G N BE'
” The Amerin sger-songwrer is full of passn and praise for pop culture’s latt queer superstar, mendg him for fg a succsful and uful mic reer as an openly gay man. When you have an openly gay man like Lil Nas X fully embracg his sexualy his mic and visuals and ’s the biggt h the world, you know thgs are headg the right directn. We have straight artists creatg this type of entertament and we’ve grown acctomed to over the past 25 years, but when me to gay artists we had to tone down, or make sure that wasn’t too sexualised, or aggrsive, and had to be safe and easy to digt.
There was always an accepted level of gay and you uldn’t challenge ‘tradnal valu’ too much, so I love the fact Lil Nas X has torn that down. ’ To me, what was for the longt time was ‘I n intify as gay, but I n’t show .