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Adam Lambert is just playing the fame game....he really wanted to create a "buzz" because his CD was being released the next day(Nov 23rd)....not really a coinkydink here!
As a gay man, I have some agreements and disagreements on this issue.
Yes there are double standards.......but what makes him think that his actions are going to do anything to change it, or make it right?
IMO he gives straight people MORE of a reason to call us everything from perverts to f*gs and a few other choice words. There is no sense in performing on NATIONAL TV in that manner. The same also goes for straight performers as well.
Call me old fashion, but if I wanna see 2 men kissing, 2 women kissing, or even a man and a woman kissing or doing any other LUDE act, I'll watch porn.
You're absolutely right. These kinds of actions make it really hard for regular gay folks to be respected. It's acts like this that makes a lot of people believe that there is a gay "lifestyle" that revolves around wanton sexuality and exhibitionism.
As a gay man, I have some agreements and disagreements on this issue.
Yes there are double standards.......but what makes him think that his actions are going to do anything to change it, or make it right?
IMO he gives straight people MORE of a reason to call us everything from perverts to f*gs and a few other choice words. There is no sense in performing on NATIONAL TV in that manner. The same also goes for straight performers as well.
Call me old fashion, but if I wanna see 2 men kissing, 2 women kissing, or even a man and a woman kissing or doing any other LUDE act, I'll watch porn.
Agreed. I am a very open minded person, and the kiss didn't bother me at all, but the simulated fellatio was too much. I will agree that double standards sure do abound here though, as I thought Shakira's performance on the same night was also pretty raunchy.
I think Adam Lambert was going for a shocking performance with a creative theatrical edge, ala early Madonna, and instead ended up with predictable sleaze. He maybe needs to earn a bit of street-cred first, and take some tips from those who have perfected the art of theatrical performance such as Lady Gaga.
That was the most foul repulsive thing I have ever seen. What a pervert.
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Exactly why parents have to monitor television.
You expect that the whole family can watch a "music" presentation event as my family did when I was younger.
Too bad unfortunately I have to agree with dcslcd.
.but what makes him think that his actions are going to do anything to change it, or make it right?
IMO he gives straight people MORE of a reason to call us everything from perverts to f*gs and a few other choice words. There is no sense in performing on NATIONAL TV in that manner. The same also goes for straight performers as well.
This is purely an in-your-face-take-that maneuver intended to shock people--and it worked. Like it or not, many people are disgusted by such blatant same sex PDA's. Many do not care to be exposed to opposite sex behavior of that sort. That's just the way it is.
ALL of the award shows are insipidly stupid efforts at self-congratulatory excess and are not worth watching.
Outrageous actions on stage are intentional and designed to create controversy. The controversies are proven career-enhancing maneuvers, i.e., do something notorious and you get a hundred million dollars of free publicity.
Donald Trump is getting a BILLION dollars of free publicity off of the Carrie Prejean / Perez Hilton cat fight.
Clowns like Dobson get into the act, trying to milk donations by decrying the decline in decency and appealing yet again for more donations to fight the good fight on behalf of all that is holy and pure. NOTHING is holy and pure. Nothing.
P. T. Barnum smiles in his grave, proven right again by Circus Americana: "There's a sucker born every minute and two to take him." (No one is sure that Barnum really coined this term.)
Journalist H.L. Menken also smiles in his grave, proven right yet again: "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." He sure got that right.
To the circus! Lights! Camera! Action! Cue the Promoters! Cue the Fundies! Cue the Fast Buck Artists! Cue the shocked moms!
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I keep in mind that Madonna was banned, censored, and vilified by many in the 1980s. Seems almost quaint now.
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