6.30.14 Adam News and Info

Perhaps someone who was at the concert can explain this.

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In Chicago,, I was right next to the couch. I could not understand what Adam was doing with that Bottle of Champagne but after the next concert I figured it out. There was a prop error -- the bottle was supposed to be uncorked.

Watch his face when he picks up the bottle and sees the cork. Starts around 1:50.

youtu.be/zHA9YvA3l-E

[Mostly OT, so scroll away!]
Just wanted to drop off this link to a NYTimes article that discusses something we've bumped against, happily or not so happily, repeatedly over the years, so I thought it might interest some of you.  It's discussing "Vicious," a new PBS series (new to PBS, that is--it's in its second season in the UK) starring Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi as two older men who are longtime partners, and the complaints that the representations of gays in the series are too stereotypical.

This is something Adam, as an occasionally dangerously "fabulous" man, has had to contend with from the start (we just saw it come up again in that blog post about Adam vs. Sam Smith), and it's something that he's repeatedly talked about thoughtfully (such as here , and here).  How does someone who is in a very real way breaking down barriers for a whole community handle the fact that if he's true to himself, he doesn't always represent that community in the way it wants to be, or feels it needs to be, represented?  [Brad Bell has written about this, too. In some ways even more than Adam, perhaps, he has to dovetail his naturally "swishy and witty" (to borrow his own "stereotypical" language) personality with his own goals of using his cultural status to advance the cause of equality.  In a way, that's precisely what "Husbands," which I've watched only some of, is about.  As Brad puts it here, addressing the gay stereotype in Hollywood controversy, "frankly, many of us are swishy and witty. And many of us aren't. (Poor things.) Since femininity and cleverness aren't negative qualities -- no, really, they're not -- they're likely not the problem here."]

To make this all a little more current, I can't tell you how happy it makes me to see Adam play the "Killer Queen" nightly in front of 15,000 people.  Just watch him proudly strike those poses.  You betta believe that song means something to him personally. 

Yep, exactly!

Just reposting because it is adorable and Roger and Adam both laugh out loud.  

Thanks for posting it originally , Q3.