Is Adam Lambert Hurting Gay Marriage?
Some claim Lambert's AMA performance reverses progress.
With all the controversy surrounding Adam Lambert's AMA performance of "For Your Entertainment", it appeared that the population most appalled by Lambert's sexual display was American parents. But another sector of Americans are offended too, as some gay Americans are imploring Lambert to take very critical consideration of his actions.
Critics say that Adam Lambert's AMA performance was anything but progressive as the quest for legalized gay marriage attempts to march forward. Some people feel that the display was primitive and animalistic, that it oversexualized homosexuality and that it makes gay sexual activity appear deviant.
Huffington Post's Jennifer Vanasco, for example, has stated that Lambert's AMA performance manifested exactly what opponents of gay marriage fear. In a very eloquent essay Vanasco says, "[The mainstream] are worried because they think gay life is exactly what you portrayed on the American Music Awards: focused on the kind of sex that turns people into animals (almost literally, in this case, with crawling dancers leading you on leashes), geared toward enticing children (ABC is a network owned by Disney, for heaven's sake), degrading, rapacious, empty."
Vanasco continues, saying that it's not because of closed-minded private American citizens that gay marriage is awaiting legalization: it's because of people like Adam Lambert. "[People like you] use sexuality thoughtlessly in order to advance your own agenda, instead of thinking about the very real consequences your actions will have on others' civil rights." She says that while soliciting votes on American Idol, Lambert told America that his sexuality was no big deal -- but now that he's in the driver's seat of his career, in fact he's splashing his sexuality around for attention. She concludes by telling Lambert, "...you hurt all American gays and lesbians..."
We wonder if Adam Lambert will finally start apologizing? But judging by his appearance on CBS' The Early Show Wednesday morning, maybe not.
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