1.31.13 We Are Family Foundation 2012 Celebration

Frenzied response to this news - not unfamiliar territory for those of us used to dealing with Adam Lambert fans!

Given the polarised reaction, we want to make a couple of things very clear before drawing a line under the matter once and for all.

1. FAULT in no way endorses Aura or the people behind it. We have simply authorised our material to be used in said publication as a means of giving fans who are already purchasing the magazine the chance to see our shoot in print once again. We - like many others - have contributed to Aura in good faith and in an effort to offer something extra to fans who supported FAULT Issue 10. We are not now and will never actively encourage fans to buy Aura Magazine. We will even make our feature available publicly and free of charge to anyone who cares to read it - right here on FAULT Online.

2. FAULT's contribution to Aura has nothing to do with any charitable involvement. Like many fans, we contributed to the publication on the understanding that it is a tribute publication, made by fans, for fans. Our experience with Alice - the only founder of the Aura project with whom we have had any involvement - has been nothing but open and pleasant. Our initial contribution to the publication came at a time when Aura was not claiming to be giving 100% of the profits to charity (the phrasing we have seen is "part of the profits").

In any case, this did not form part of our decision-making process when contributing to Aura. Print publications (even one-offs) are expensive to produce and to run, and - as such - we strongly urge anyone interested in the charity aspect of Aura to simply donate directly to the charity of their choice. We have no idea what percentage of profits will be donated by Aura to charity. To our minds, virtually any charitable donation is inherently altruistic, but clearly there is some ambiguity in this case and some people might prefer to donate directly under the circumstances. We will not be commenting further on this matter. We would simply encourage readers to make up their own minds rather than being led by one side or the other.

3. We are not aware of any endorsement of Aura from Adam Lambert personally or his representatives. We have never been told that this was the case and, as such, it did not affect our decision to contribute.

Finally, we are aware of the existence of free digital fanzines about Adam Lambert. One, in particular, freeely and flagrantly plagiarised our material from FAULT Issue 10. We say "plagiarised" in the correct sense of the word - none of said material was accurately credited by the aforementioned fanzine. We were happy to contribute to Aura because, simply, they asked nicely and agreed to credit fully.