Update on Adam Lambert's Semi-Closety Marketing: A Letter About The Letter

• Michael says thank you Adam Lambert for all the traffic to his blog. The quickly-compounding comment volume for The Semi-Closety Marketing of Adam Lambert beat the Carrie Prejean storm by a mile. These kids must not need a right-wing blog link to find the oracle-ish Mustolean blog.

• Blah. Adam Lambert debut album available everywhere Nov. 23 Listen now "For Your Entertainment" http://apps.facebook.com/ilike/artist/Adam+Lambert Thank you Adam Lambert for the MUSIC!

• Who? Adam will do porn as soon as his second album is a flop. The first one will do well enough based on "buzz" but then. . . . He is NOT Freddie Mercury.

• Blah blah blah. No matter what you say, his first two singles are flopping, and he's being promoted to death.

• Hiklin's letter read to me as child's tantrum. It was mis-directed at Adam and as such - made no sense. The Editor, as a person responsible for the OUT reputation, had no right to throw that temper tantrum. He alienated Adam's vast and emotionally engaged fan base, he showed no support or good will for Adam, and ultimately hurt the very cause he is trying to champion. Adam's management is out for $s, to achieve that hey need Adam to be successful. Fine. We all want Adam to conquer the world. Wouldn't it make more sense for him to pick up "the flag" once he has achieved that success (and only if he wants to)? Yes, we live in the country with puritanical uneducated views, yes, we have to fight those views, but everything has its right time and place. So, I am going to repeat myself - the Editor's letter was a tantrum, childish, self-defeating, backstabbing and ultimately myopic...

• Musto, you broke this whole story yesterday and then towleroad.com picked it up. Today, Gawker made it sound like towleroad broke it (though at least they linked to you too.) Shades of when they gave credit for the Anderson Cooper boyfriend thing to someone else.

• It's great to see that misogyny isn't limited to the straight press--"kitten" and "claymate" attacks indeed. Hicklin did wrong to direct his complaints with 19 to Adam himself. If Out had a problem with 19's publicist's approach to the interview, bring it up with them. Adam was nothing but forthcoming in the interview. It seems Hicklin is rudely trying to sell more mags with his statement and not really trying to make a more open atmosphere for other artists to come out of the closet. Why would any gay star want to be on the cover of Out at this point, if this is how they can expect to be treated? Out treats their straight coverstars better. Perhaps that's why they're easier to get.

• Why isn't anyone asking Aaron Hicklin or the journalist what was wrong with their integrity that day? Why didn't they tell the PR person that if they had restrictions, there would be no interview. They are so outraged that an open letter was penned in an effort for Adam Lambert to stand up and fight. But they weren't willing to do it themselves!

• Right on David. Get a grip Hicklin. Adam has really hidden his sexuality. He's gay. Oh my - I never would have known! Thank god you let me in on the secret!! Phhhhhhhht. What are you doing? Just trying to sell more magazines? All you need is Adam on the cover or in the magazine to do that. You don't need to stoke fires. He is on fire already. I hear a baby crying.....

• "Sexuality-cloaking?" Yeah, that Rolling Stone article sure cloaked his sexuality. Yeah, talking about his boyfriend candidly in Out was a very effective cloak. Name me a single American performer just starting his/her career who has been as brave and open as Lambert about his sexuality? Why can't all you nuts just wait for the poor guy to achieve some degree of success before demanding that he be your spokesman? Wouldn't he be much more effective an advocate then?

• What is wrong with the PR people dictating "no politics" in the interview? It's done all the time. Adam has stated that he is not ready to be an activist and just wants to sing. I just saw a YouTube clip of Pattinson's radio interview with Ryan Seacrest. Ryan barely mentioned his co-star in a question and Pattinson's PR people pulled him right out of that room. Stop crying like a little baby because that's what you sound like.

• His music sucks more than his mouth ever could.

• Why would a publicist tell a GAY magazine about a GAY singer, "Don't make the interview too gay." Pathetic!!!

• "The Claymates...sorry, Glamberts." Funny!

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