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Adam Lambert comes out: He’s gay, OK?
As promised, Adam Lambert is clearing up all the speculation about his sexuality in the new issue of Rolling Stone.
“I don’t think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I’m gay,” Lambert tells the magazine. “I’ve been living in Los Angeles for eight years as a gay man.”
While Lambert is proud of his sexuality - “I embrace it,” he says. “It’s just another part of me” - he’s focused on his career. “I’m trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.”
Lambert, who says he was worried about coming out on American Idol because it would be “so sensationalized that it would overshadow what I was there to do, which was sing,” admits to having a crush on his roommate and Idol winner Kris Allen.
“I was like, ‘Oh, s-, they put me with the cute guy,’ ” Lambert recalls of bunking in the Idol mansion with Allen. “Distracting! He’s the one guy that I found attractive in the whole group on the show: nice, nonchalant, pretty and totally my type — except that he has a wife. I mean, he’s open-minded and liberal, but he’s definitely 100 percent straight.”
As for the photos of Lambert dressed in drag and kissing other men that popped up online shortly after he made a splash on Idol, he says they’re not really representative of who he is. “I’ve only dressed in drag three or four times,” he says. “That’s not me.”
And while he’s been spotted out with close friend Drake LaBry, Lambert says he didn’t mind the attention he got during Idol from screaming female fans. “I loved it this season when the girls went crazy for me,” Lambert admits. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s all hot.”
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By Joker
June 9, 2009 12:57 PM | Link to this
Fix your headline! Don’t you proof read before publishing, geesh!By GladGirl
June 9, 2009 12:59 PM | Link to this
Lam”berg”?By laura
June 9, 2009 1:31 PM | Link to this
Fixed it. I sincerely apologize for the error on my part. I was in a big hurry to get the news out. I’m sure you understand. Right?By jim
June 9, 2009 1:59 PM | Link to this
People who never make typographical errors are pushy and unforgiving.By 448 Kiefaber
June 9, 2009 2:55 PM | Link to this
“…I was in a big hurry to get the news out…” Not much of a hurry - it was on the Cincinnati.com site 2 hours earlierBy me
June 9, 2009 3:05 PM | Link to this
this is a big DUH! like he needed to come out!By laura
June 9, 2009 3:15 PM | Link to this
Dear 448 Kiefaber: That’s why I was in a big hurry!By nyc
June 9, 2009 4:58 PM | Link to this
homosexuals are mentally ill…and need in or outpatient treatment..to be cured of their diseaseBy dearenek
June 9, 2009 6:00 PM | Link to this
the biggest not-news news of the day.By farside62
June 9, 2009 6:55 PM | Link to this
This is not newsBy angela
June 9, 2009 8:34 PM | Link to this
well duh we figured it out watching aiBy HorseFeathers
June 9, 2009 8:40 PM | Link to this
Honestly, why do gay people feel the need to tell the world they’re gay? Who is supposed to care? Be gay, be straight, but why announce it? I really don’t get it.By Red Dog
June 9, 2009 9:10 PM | Link to this
My lord, he was in theater since he was a little boy. So, what else would you expect him to be?By gigi
June 9, 2009 10:37 PM | Link to this
Why does everyone assume that males who like to perform are gay? Sexual orientation has nothing to do with theatrics.By tia
June 9, 2009 10:40 PM | Link to this
gay or not he can sing and thats what american idol was about.By MM
June 9, 2009 10:45 PM | Link to this
nyc, you are nothing more than a pot stirer and a button pusher. Did you notice that your comments were ignored? I am cracking up!!!By missy
June 9, 2009 10:49 PM | Link to this
Please, not a surprise. First of all, when asked if he was gay (like Clay) his response was “no comment.” Ask a straight man they’d be ready to fight,By i love Kristen Stewart
June 15, 2009 8:01 AM | Link to this
yea i do agree. this was no suprise to me AT ALL. i mean come on listen to the way he talks and the way he looks. but honestly who cares?