Have you been following this, or have you been too busy baking pies or attempting to drive to the airport or some such shit? If you have been following, I'm sure you can surmise that this has made me mad enough to spit. If you haven't, let me sum up for you.
Adam Lambert was first runner-up on American Idol last season and was notable for being the first Idol finalist to openly admit to being gay (rather than come out five years after being on the show.) Last Sunday Mr Lambert, who has his first CD out, performed live at the American Music Awards wherein he caused controversy by a.) kissing his (male) keyboard player onstage and b.) grabbing the head of one of his (male) backup dancers who was kneeling in front of him and pushing it in the general direction of his crotch. [Meanwhile, Janet Jackson grabbed the crotch of one of her (male) dancers onstage at the same event and no one blinked.]
Because of this controversy, Mr Lambert was disinvited from performing on Good Morning America. The Early Show stepped up and invited him to perform for them instead. However, when Mr Lambert again kissed his bandmate on their stage, they blurred it out. Yes, two guys kissing is so offensive that it needs to be censored completely. Meanwhile, as has been pointed out many times by better people than me, that fucking calculated publicity stunt of a kiss between fucking Madonna and fucking Britney has been shown over and over and over on network TV. Because two bleached blond chicks kissing each other is hawwwwt for network executives and their frat boy audience members, so that same-sex spit-swapping isn't indecent at all. The litmus test for whether something gets censored or not is whether it makes your typical het male uncomfortable. We're not protecting the "innocent children." We're protecting their scared-to-death-of-any-gay-impulses dads.
See? I'm getting all upset already. Ha!
Unlike an old friend of mine, a middle-aged long-married heterosexual female who *loved* guy-on-guy hardcore porn, I am not particularly interested in or excited by two guys doing each other. (But, then again, I'm not particularly interested in watching anyone do anyone. I'm apparently missing the voyeuristic gene.) But I will say this. I can't tell the story behind this on this blog, but the hottest pda I have ever seen was a kiss between two guys. The energy between them, the passion and the worship, was palpable from even twenty feet away and when they finally kissed...wow. It was the kind of thing that made me simultaneously want to look because it was so sexy and beautiful and want to look away because it was so intimate. (Not that they were paying attention to anyone besides each other.) That someone in this fucked-up society in which we live could find that gross while meanwhile approving of that fake-ass girl-on-girl titillation kissing of the Britney-Madonna variety makes me weep for our culture.
I despise Madonna. Have I mentioned that?
Anyway, Andrea says all expressions of true desire, passion, devotion, and lust are awesome. It's sex as a fake commodity selling whatever that's obscene. As is pandering to the patriarchy's fear of male homosexuality.
Happy Thanksgiving! Go eat that pie you baked.
xoxo
4 comments:
According to a well-placed source, the gay blogosphere was full of people condemning Lambert's act as "a publicity stunt". Which just goes to show that being gay doesn't exempt one from the same uptight, bourgeois, "what will the neighbor's think", attitudes as straight people. Let alone a certain lack of understanding of what a featured performance on something like the AMA show is.
From the NYTimes:
There is a lot of very adult material on television all the time, and mostly it flows unchecked and unpunished, except when it comes as a surprise and hits a nerve. Community standards are mutable and vague; lots of people don’t know obscenity until someone else sees it...
The Jackson case showed that indecency lies in the context. People complained that children were watching during the Super Bowl halftime show; viewers normally don’t expect to see soft-core pornography until the commercials.
http://bit.ly/8g5LkG
However, if this kerfluffle results in fewer depictions of hot girl-on-girl kissing on broadcast TV, this male audience member is going to be really upset.
I thought someone might say this was a calculated publicity stunt too, but I honestly don't think so. I'd tell you my reasons why I don't think so, but I'm working on a bottle of prosecco. Salud!
Okay, now that I am no longer drinking, I shall explain myself.
The reason I don't think this was a calculated publicity stunt is that when I heard him being interviewed about it, he explained that he was so jacked up for this performance, so much adrenaline flowing, he just got into it and let the spontenaity flow. (I just realized have no idea how to spell that word. No spellcheck in comments. Boo.) And if you listen to the song, the lyrical message is, more or less, "You think I'm a nice, sweet guy, but that's because I haven't gotten you into bed yet and done all the nasty things I'm gonna do to you. Do you think you can handle me?"
I can totally see how the energy of performing that might lead to, um, some sexually aggressive stage moves. It sounds reasonable. Of course, he could just be a really good liar. Don't know.
The second kiss (on the Morning Show), that was calculated. But, I dunno, I'd do the same thing in his position as a big "fuck you" to the haters.
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