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A Little Pec

Us Weekly (December 14, 2009) offers up Hollywood's hottest hunks flashing their pecs. 

The Gagawannabes

Life & Style (December 14, 2009) has a bizarre theory—they think because Lady GaGa is the "It" girl of the moment, her style is responsible for corrupting Adam Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Miley Cyrus and Rihanna, turning them into wild children. Okay! 

Truth Or Bare

Adam Lambert looks far hotter "bare," courtesy of People (December 14, 2009). In his Q&A, he says of meeting Madonna:

"Madonna told me, 'Keep your eyes on the prize.' I was at her house in New York. It was intimidating. Her son David answered the door. I thought, 'This is so surreal.' When we talked about singing together, she said, 'I'm really bossy in the studio. I'll piss you off.' I said, 'If you piss me off, we'd probably make good art.' We bantered. She was cool."

"Maybe A Little Too Far"

Adam Lambert seems to apologize for his AMAs performance—he must be getting advice that he's alienated too many potential fans. Ellen's reply is exactly correct, that any complaints about sexual content on TV must be about all sexual content...if it's only about gay content, it's homophobia.

He's very conciliatory toward the homophobes and sexphobes and even toward ABC...but I wish he would mend fences with Out. Of those four entities (homophobes, sexphobes, ABC and Out), Out's the only one ultimately in Adam's corner, and is the one that provided the tamest criticism.

Right In The Kisser

A great piece on the Adam Lambert kiss and its broader implications written by one of the guys you see above is worth reading by clicking here. The only point where I think he overreaches—maybe—is when he describes politicians and TV execs meeting privately to wonder what's the minimum they have to give the "queers." I don't even think most of the people who are in control of these things are necessarily that blatantly homophobic in their personal regard for us. That's no excuse, but that's what makes us so mad, right? I don't remember continual LGBT outrage at Bush because...what's the point? His homophobia was expected. People who work in TV and in the Democratic Party, however, should be on our side. And are. They're just not willing (in most cases) to stick their necks out, and (in some cases) are all too willing to smack us down if it advances their own agenda (usually about money or power). Cue (justifiable) rage.

I particularly liked the point made about our distractability. I know there were superficial gays in the Stonewall era and having fun in San Francisco while others were busy protesting, but it does seem like more than ever there is a sharp divide between gay people who are capable of paying any kind of attention to politics and activism (not that this precludes lighter pursuits) and those who only want to connect with their fellow citizens based on their fandom of Glee or Twilight or...Madonna.

Kissed Off

Politically speaking and socially speaking, yes, it is absurd and offensive and a double standard for CBS to show the familiar Madonna/Britney kiss but to have to blur Adam's similarly same-sex smooch. Right on, Adam! 

But then again, why would logic work on this? After all, the idea that a same-sex kiss—regardless of genders—would be classified as potentially offensive in the first place is already so very wrong.

Twits

Tweets about Adam Lambert's (bad and) shocking performance on the AMAs were coming fast and furious (like the one above, from an idiot who thinks he's a fag but can't WAIT to see the faaabulous musical Nine...) and then suddenly Adam was OFF Twitter's Trending Topics. Why? Can Twitter decide to do that? It was not organic. 

Madam Lambert

I have a feeling Adam Lambert is going to be loathed a la Janet Jackson (who has taken years to get back into the public's good graces!) after his "For Your Entertainment" performance, which sucks because now I get to check Twitter every five seconds to see comments like "Adam Lambert needs to be hit with all kinds of bricks" and other expressions of disgust that are about 50% about not liking his performance and 50% loathing homosexuality.

Anyway, was just reminded that Madonna was once here "For Our Entertainment," too:

I think the reason I am not feeling Adam so much (obviously the Out debacle didn't help) is that he's more appealing to straight people who want a walk on the wild side. He's almost like a human Rocky Horror Picture Show. Nothing wrong with that at all, and not a criticism—just an explanation. I feel like he'll be Janet Jacksoned all over the place tomorrow...

All Fired Up/Lord GaGa

Above, Lady GaGa's Thriller-fied perf of "Bad Romance" and "Speechless," complete with codpiece. I just can't get enough—the eight fresh songs she just released are as good as the stuff she's already released, including "Alejandro," which sounds pleasantly identical to Ace of Base's "Don't Turn Around" (which sounded identical to ABBA).

Sell-Out

It's a shame, but Adam Lambert has admitted he was the one who asked his publicist to ask Out not to make his interview "too gay." Specifically, he didn't want to talk about the March on Washington or marriage equality because he apparently thinks that being an entertainer means he doesn't have the "expertise." What a joke, Adam. You're clearly smarter than the average person, and any idiot has an opinion on if gay people deserve equal rights and/or to be married—don't sell out to the idea that celebrities are prancing ponies with no minds.