Posted on 11/25/2009 7:05:14 PM PST by Steelfish
Adam Lambert Furor Spreads to Gay Community
REUTERS November 25, 2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert on Wednesday admitted he got carried away during his racy American Music Awards performance, as furor over his singing and dancing stoked a wider controversy in the U.S. gay community.
More than 14 million people watched the gay, glam rocker close the live AMA telecast on Sunday with a performance that included Lambert kissing a male keyboard player and pushing the head of another performer into his crotch. Complaints poured in to the ABC TV network that aired the show, and it canceled the Lambert's appearance on its "Good Morning America" news and chat show set for Wednesday.
Yet rival network CBS put him on its "The Early Show" program, where Lambert claimed he had not intended to provoke audiences but declined to apologize, saying: "I'm not a baby-sitter. I'm a performer." "I admit I did get carried away, but I don't see anything wrong with it. I do see how people got offended, and that was not my intention," he said.
"If it had been a female pop performer doing the moves that were on the stage, I don't think there'd be nearly as much of an outrage at all," Lambert added. "I think it's because I'm a gay male."
The "Early Show" also ran video footage that blurred Lambert's male kiss, and doing so caused the network its own problem. Gay rights groups accused CBS of hypocrisy by also playing unedited video of a kiss between Madonna and Britney Spears at 2003's MTV Video Music Awards.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) said the CBS decision "reinforces an unfortunate double standard that is applied to openly gay performers."
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How dare you be mad at me for doing whatever the hell I want to do Narcissism. It stretches from the Bath House to the White House.
It is the audience’s fault they were offended by the Sodomite’s perversion.
I have a feeling this is the root of the problem. There is a disconnect about what behavior is appropriate.
There isn’t a flush large enough for this piece of scum. I think the Organizers and Producers of AMA should be fined!
He's such a thtallion. (giggles) /s
That kind of behavior is simply outrageous no matter what the gender.
I miss Liberace.
Makes my stomach turn ... especially when I saw this stunt on the news this morning. Keep it in the bedroom queers -- 'sharing' your sickness does not interest me in the least.
“people got offended”
They were surprised that a raunchy rump-wrangler behaved like a flaming fart-knocker?
Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas!
Not THAT Liberace!!!
Truly, I do believe that miss Spears kissed another female. Yet there seemed to be no evidence of her pushing the girls face into her crotch. That’s a bad caparison on the homo’s part. There is a big difference in kissing and simulating a BJ. Neither one was behaving appropriately and should have found private rooms. I’m beginning to believe that all sense of style and timeless grace has left the world stage in revulsion.
Oh really? He copied Madonna kissing Britney Spears.
“...but I don’t see anything wrong with it.”
THAT is the problem!
He and others like him don’t see the problems associated with their perverted behavior.
If the gays truly wanted to be left alone, they wouldn’t be trying to shove their lifestyle in our faces.
I may be in the minority, but I believe that some folks are born gay, it’s not their fault, but it shouldn’t be made to be my problem. I am just as certain that most gays are simply sicko freaks that would be trouble regardless what lifestyle choices they would have made.
Lambert committed career suicide. I hope he enjoys the stench of urinal crystals, because in the places he’ll soon be working, that will likely be the overpowering scent in the air.
Some queers just LOVE pushing their ‘agenda’ as far as they can on everyone else (drama queens). I’m sure Perez is orgasmic.
The thing about homosexuals is that they just can’t control themselves.
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