Comments on: Adam Lambert at Sydney Mardi Gras: Even Gayer Than That Gay Kiss Thing!

By: Jet

Jet — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:54:54 +0000

Adam Lambert is the most alpha gay man out there and yet he has a flair for androgeny – the dude is the new Glam gawd for sure. I think it is something needed in this country (US) that takes itself way to seriously and needs to get over its puritanical roots and open its proverbial mind. Johnny Weir is fun – Adam Lambert is a Mega Star.

By: Missy

Missy — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:38:51 +0000

Nooo! Jen come back! That shirt looks nice, btw.

By: snowangel

snowangel — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:33:06 +0000

I ADORE how gay Adam is! It makes him even more hot!!! Can I be your token straight girl. . . please??? I’m having so much fun here.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:09:56 +0000

HI ALEX!

Okay but, can we talk about his pants? Because that’s where I got tripped up.

By: JentheJew

JentheJew — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:41:58 +0000

Honey, Adam Lambert’s gold codpiece was super gay. Like, Freddy Mercury levels of gay on the gayometer. Elton John levels. BUT WE LOVE GAY WE ARE GAY WHY IS EVERYONE ACTING LIKE GAY IS AN INSULT ME AND MY PLAID SHIRT AND UHAUL FULL OF CATS ARE GOING HOME.

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:53:52 +0000

I am confused by the contention between some of these comments.

Some people think he put on a very gay show, but some people didn’t think it was that gay.

Then the very-gays were a bit upset with the not-that-gays because they felt the NTGs’ denial of performance-gayness was undermining his person-gayness (which was a bit odd to me anyway, as I read the first comments about the not-that-gayness as if they were disappointed and maybe they live in massive hyper-camp pink palaces and so Lambert’s performance really was relatively not that gay).

To paraphrase the old adage: gayness is in the eye of the beholder. We all filter things subjectively and our minds naturally home in on the different things that appeal to us. A performance can be gay, straight, glam, whatever – all these things at the same time depending on what we choose to take from it. I don’t think people should be criticised just because they think that a man in tight black pvc thrusting his codpiece at his writhing semi-naked male dancers is not very gay. However, they should accept that the filter on this site is very much set to full-focus gayness.

Conclusions:
1. Everyone is right! Yay!

2. Reading the word gay repeatedly makes your brain go all mushy

3. Not reading AS for a weekend and then consuming many comments in one digest is really tricky to, um, digest. I was in a canoe (autopaddling, not autostraddling), which was fun, but canoes don’t have internet so I’m not convinced.

By: TSwizzle

TSwizzle — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:44:47 +0000

This is a gay website? Gross, I’m outta here.

I don’t even care enough about this Lambert dude to watch a video of him or whatever, but damn I like looking at pics of him. Oh so pretty. And witty and gaaaaaaaay.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:13:44 +0000

YES! GAY IS GOOD! That’s why I don’t like to refer to the Vatican people as gay. Because they are not good.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:07:59 +0000

He has enough straight scandals already. If he were gay we would be safe, given his habit of making new laws to suit his personal interests.

btw ADAM LAMBERT IS GAY not the Vatican people, the Vatican people are just monsters (no offense to cute monsters).

By: RachelwasHere

RachelwasHere — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:59:14 +0000

I think it’s pretty clear that statement (whether it was from an Autostraddler or a Glambert or a Glambert-Autostraddler) was directed at those Glamberts who already posted as though calling it gay were an attack and not the Glambert community at large.

I would hardly consider that an attack and it certainly doesn’t qualify as lots of comments. It doesn’t say Glamberts aren’t welcome at all – it is directly addressing the issue of whether there was anything gay about the performance. I don’t think I’ve seen any site not directly devoted to Adam that has more love for him than Autostraddle.

I love seeing straight people read/comment on Autostraddle – the site has a broad appeal. But it is irritating when new visitors (not you, Stacie, speaking generally here) comment seemingly without realizing we use the word gay with LOVE.

By: Dina

Dina — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:46:26 +0000

THIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

By: Dina

Dina — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:45:02 +0000

Here’s the part where I hope this is one of those this-is-the-same-person-commenting-lots-of-times things.