2.12.15 Adam News and Info
Feb 12, 2015 1:36:46 GMT -5
Post by Q3 on Feb 12, 2015 1:36:46 GMT -5
Today’s banner photo….
http://instagr.am/p/y-E2ACLV_r
The look…..
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The walk……
GIF by Lilybop, from Milan Q+AL concert
The boogie……
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The clap…….
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Commentary
Op-ed: Empire Keeps Getting Gayer — But Pop Stars Always Have Been Queer
The hit show challenges hip-hop’s gay haters, but pop stars are actually revered for being gay, bisexual, or androgynous.
BY Adam Sandel
February 11 2015 8:00 AM ET UPDATED: February 11 2015 4:07 PM ET
There are many reasons why LGBT fans are among the 14 million viewers who tune in each week to Fox’s smash hit series Empire.
The juicy, sexy saga of a family hip-hop music empire stars the spectacular Taraji P. Henson as Cookie Lyon, the ex-con hell on wheels (and stiletto heels) matriarch, who walks off with every episode tucked neatly in her leopard print handbag.
The most sympathetic character is the sensitive, talented, gay singer-songwriter Jamal (Jussie Smollett), who’s overcoming the homophobic disdain of his music magnate father Lucious (Terrence Howard) to make it on his own.
His two brothers, who he’s battling for ultimate control of the family empire, are the cocky, aspiring hip-hop star Hakeem (Bryshere Gray), and the hunky, business-minded Andre (Trai Byers), both of whom frequently bare their chiseled chests.
Inventing a show that’s catnip for gay viewers seems to have been a no-brainer for its gay creator Lee Daniels (Precious, Lee Daniels’ The Butler), Danny Strong (Game Change, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2), and executive producer Ilene Chaiken (who created The L Word).
Speaking of the L word, a recent Empire episode revealed Hakeem’s Rihanna-esque girlfriend sucking face with her hot model girlfriend. The show just keeps getting gayer — and hotter.
Empire is clearly battling some of the entrenched homophobia in the world of rap and hip-hop music. (See recent quotes from Azealia Banks — or better yet, don’t.) With its massive audience and popularity, the show is certain to change some hearts and minds.
Yet while some people were surprised to see openly gay singer Sam Smith sweep Sunday’s Grammy Awards, pop music is the only arena in which stars are not only accepted but revered for being gay, bisexual, or androgynous.
Whether it's the sultry androgyny of Elvis Presley, Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson, and Prince or the flamboyant stage personas of Mick Jagger, David Bowie, and Elton John, the greatest male pop stars have long combined the sexual power of both genders. And then there’s George Michael, Ricky Martin, Adam Lambert … Shall we go on?
Whether or not the performers publicly announce they're not exclusively straight, it’s been clear for many years that no one wants a pop star who looks and acts like Clint Eastwood.
The most powerful pop divas also combine masculine energy with feminine sexuality. There's Tina Turner, Barbra Streisand, Janis Joplin, Bette Midler, Cher — the tradition follows a steadily androgynous lineage through Madonna, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, Pink, and Lady Gaga.
While young people continue to be bullied in school hallways for being gay, lesbian, or simply androgynous, millions of people fill concert arenas to worship pop stars for having those very same qualities.
When Empire’s Cookie discovers that a video of her pop star protégé making out with her girlfriend has gone viral, she fires back, “I don’t judge, but you’s a freak. That’s a good thing. We can sell that.”
True that, Cookie. True that.
Link: www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/02/11/op-ed-empire-keeps-getting-gayer-pop-stars-always-have-been-queer
A Losing Fight
02.11.15
Kansas’s Big Gay Rollback a Sign of Conservative Desperation
Gov. Sam Brownback’s mean-spirited revocation of employment protection for LGBT people is but the latest Hail Mary from a Christian conservative camp that knows it has lost.
Well, it worked in Uganda.
Government in crisis? No money for basic infrastructure? Taking a cue from Russia, Uganda, and other beacons of democracy, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback found time in his schedule to wag the dog the old-fashioned way: by taking things out on gay people. In his case, that means allowing the state government to fire all its gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender employees for no reason other than being themselves.
Because that’ll help.
In a throwback to the “special rights” rhetoric of the 1990s, Brownback said he was opposed to his predecessor having created a “protected class of rights” by executive order. Which is odd, since the governor explicitly affirmed protected classes of rights for those who might be discriminated against on the basis of “race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, or age.” Of course, many of us might just call those “civil rights.”
What’s going on?
Brownback is pandering to his base here, of course, showing that he will fight against the tide of acceptance of LGBT people any which way he can. But his move will backfire with moderates. While national support for same-sex marriage is still hovering in the 55 percent range, support for employment protection is north of 70 percent. It’s just not the American way to fire someone because of who he or she is.
Set in context, Brownback’s is but one of many desperate moves among far-right conservatives who see that they have lost the moral battle on this issue—but not quite completely. That’ll take until June, when the Supreme Court is likely to bring marriage equality to all 50 states. In the meantime (paraphrasing Lars von Trier), chaos reigns.
Think of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s pharisaic attempts to squirm out of gay marriage. Or similar shenanigans in Florida. Or the “Religious Freedom Restoration Acts” popping up like mushrooms all over the country.
These are mostly moves of desperation—tactics without a strategy. The fact is, Christian conservatives, once a fearsome lobby that called the shots in the White House, are now circling the drain on LGBT issues, even as they rack up victories on issues of reproductive justice. And they know it.
Their own base is eroding, with younger generations of Christians at best uninspired by anti-gay rhetoric. At worst, they are leaving: A recent study found that one-third of millennials who left their religious traditions did so because of those traditions’ teachings on homosexuality.
Beyond the base, LGBT issues have gone from reliable to radioactive. Witness House Speaker John Boehner’s statement that the House GOP will accept how the Supreme Court rules on gay marriage. (Contrast that with Obamacare.) Brownback’s brownnosing appeals to the far right, but it is anathema to the movable middle.
These legislative and judicial shifts are the consequences, not the causes, of social change. The Christian right has had it backward, trying to pass laws instead of win hearts and minds.
When you come to think of it, it’s always been five minutes to midnight in Christian America.
To take but one recent example, did anyone even blink when Sam Smith ironically thanked his ex-boyfriend at the Grammys? Just three or four years ago, Adam Lambert was news. Now? Yawn.
This rapid social change has not gone unnoticed. Right-wing Christians have begun to play the victim card, saying that LGBT people have won and should take pity on their defeated foes. But really, the fault is their own. Having abandoned the traditional evangelical mistrust of politics, the Christian right now finds that the culture war actually mattered more.
Of course, being in the cultural minority suits many Christians just fine. Evangelical Christianity in particular has long been happier as a counterculture, railing against the mainstream and warning of Judgment Day. The outsider position—real or perceived—resonates with ancient tales of the Christian martyrs, and the anti-establishment teachings of Jesus himself.
And when you come to think of it, it’s always been five minutes to midnight in Christian America. Not a decade has gone by in all of American history in which conservative Christians haven’t warned that we’ve lost our moral compass. Emancipation, Prohibition’s repeal, the loss of the gold standard, urbanization, desegregation, evolution, secular education, women’s suffrage, women’s liberation, gay liberation—the conservative Christian narrative has always been one of moral decline. It has always been better in the good old days.
This is, then, both a unique moment in American moral history and a recurring one. On the one hand, the rapidity of the change regarding sexual and gender minorities has been stunning. On the other hand, moral evolution has always seemed shocking at the time, and always seems like the end of the world to those whose world is too small to accommodate it.
At a certain point, desperation itself becomes a kind of virtue. There is a kind of valor in the doomed fight—think of Hollywood war movies, or the captain going down with his ship.
If you follow the evangelical movement as I do, however, you’ll also find a sincere sense of loss. When I began doing “opposition research” several years ago, I thought that Christian conservative claims of discrimination and victimhood were just rhetorical. Surely, these people couldn’t really believe they are being persecuted, when often what they’re fighting for is the right to continue persecuting others.
But I’ve come to see that the sense of loss is real, and not entirely off the mark. The world is changing, and Christian conservatives know it. Hail Marys such as Brownback’s reflect a real sense of having lost the moral battle, and not really knowing what to do.
Link: www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/11/kansas-s-big-gay-rollback-a-sign-of-conservative-desperation.html
'Mighty Real’: Show is a loving spin on ’70s disco star Sylvester
By Chad Jones
Published 1:02 pm, Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Anthony Wayne, as disco singer Sylvester in “Mighty Real: A Fabulous Sylvester Musical,” says everyone knows about the flashy and fun sides of the singer. Wayne hopes the show reminds people of Sylvester’s AIDS activism, humanity and devotion to loved ones. Photo: Joan Marcus / ONLINE_YES
The word “fabulous” may have been invented just to describe Sylvester, the self-described “Queen of Disco” whose biggest hit was “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real).”
Floating through the world of androgyny and glitter, Sylvester, whose real name was Sylvester James Jr., was a little bit R&B, a little bit funk and a whole lot of disco ball delight. The late singer, who died in 1988 at age 41 from complications of AIDS, is celebrated in the new show “Mighty Real: A Fabulous Sylvester Musical” at the Brava Theater Center.
Created by Anthony Wayne, who stars as Sylvester, and Kendrell Bowman, who co-directs with Wayne and created the disco-era costumes, “Mighty Real” became an off-Broadway sensation last year. The show finally arrives in San Francisco, where the real Sylvester had roots stretching back to the early ’70s, when he performed with the Cockettes and lived in their Haight Street commune.
“We knew that after New York this show had to come San Francisco,” Wayne says.
Bowman says he and Wayne, who are partners in theater and in life, were inspired to write about Sylvester after learning about the singer’s life on a 2010 TV show called “Unsung.”
“We weren’t born when Sylvester was around,” Bowman says. “But he was so inspiring. He was one of those people who said you should be who you should be no matter what. This was before Adam Lambert, before RuPaul. Sylvester was so honest. We wanted to write a show about him to inspire others.”
Link to entire article: www.sfgate.com/performance/article/Mighty-Real-Show-is-a-loving-spin-on-70s-6075734.php
Why National Averages are Meaningless….
.....and why there is no reason to think all of "America" is ready for Marriage Equality
A Humorous Case of Too Many Adam Lambert....
....or Bad Reporting!
More controversial CCSD consultant contracts exposed
By Darcy Spears. CREATED Feb 10, 2015
Clark County, NV (KTNV) -- There's no debate over whether Nevada's education system needs improvement. The debate is how do you do that?
The proposed solution on the table right now is to give the school district more money. But how are they spending the tax dollars they already have and who's cashing in?
Related: CCSD consultant contracts top $104 million
With five children in the Clark County School District, Dan Stock wants assurance that schools are held accountable for every penny they spend, "Direct services to my children are being cut left and right."
Dan would like to see more field trips, technology and foreign language. His kids participate in music and sports, but, "Across the board, I'm seeing fliers come home asking for money."
Take music programs, for example.
While parents routinely pay out of pocket, "And we spend thousands of dollars a year," said Dan, Contact 13 discovered the district has spent almost $130,000 in the last three years on celebrity judges for music and band festivals.
American Idol finalist Adam Lambert got $1800 to judge a high school band festival at UNLV.
We've also paid professional athletes, baseball's Alex Trevino and soccer's Jimmy Cuellar, to judge mariachi festivals.
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Link to entire article: www.jrn.com/ktnv/news/contact-13/you-paid-for-it/More-controversial-CCSD-consultant-contracts-exposed-291470561.html#comments-anchor
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Adam is at 1:00 in this news report......
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The real story....
I do not follow Adam Lambert very closely. I am sure he snuck into Nevada, judged a marching band competition and I never noticed. Yeah, right.
The band judge was probably Dr. Adam Lambert from Southern Utah University.
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100 Most Eligible Bachelors: 2015
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Adamtopia CalendarQUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT – 2015 UK and EUROPE TOUR
CONCERTS START AT 20:00 LOCAL TIME
Tue 13 January NEWCASTLE Arena SOLD OUT Attendance: 9,500
Wed 14 January GLASGOW Hydro SOLD OUT Attendance:
Sat 17 January LONDON O2 Arena Close to SOLD OUT
Sun 18 January LONDON O2 Arena Close to SOLD OUT
Attendance to the two London O2 shows: Queen + Adam Lambert O2 Arena London, U.K. Jan. 17-18, 2015 $3,300,140 33,003 /34,093 2 / 0 $1,365.68, $74.35
Tue 20 January LEEDS Arena Very close to SOLD OUT, tickets for a few seats were not sold.
Wed 21 January MANCHESTER Arena SOLD OUT
Friday 23 January BIRMINGHAM NIA SOLD OUT
Sat 24 January NOTTINGHAM Arena SOLD OUT
Mon 26 January PARIS Zenith Close to Sold Out.
Thu 29 January COLOGNE Lanxess Arena SOLD OUT attendance around 15,500 (press report)
Fri 30 January AMSTERDAM, Ziggo Dome SOLD OUT
Sun 1 February VIENNA Stadhalle Close to sold out, attendance 10,500 (press report)
Mon 2 February MUNICH Olympiahalle Very close to sold out, attendance over 12,000 (press report)
Wed 4 February BERLIN O2 Very close to sold out
Thu 5 February HAMBURG O2 SOLD OUT
Sat 7 February FRANKFURT Festhalle SOLD OUT
Cancelled: Sun 8 February BRUSSELS Palais 12 SOLD OUT/will not be rescheduled
Tue 10 February MILAN Forum SOLD OUT
Fri 13 February STUTTGART Schleyerhalle
Sun 15 February HERNING Jyske Bank Boxen SOLD OUT
Tue 17 February PRAGUE O2 - very limited
Thu 19 February ZURICH Hallenstadion
Sat 21 February KRAKOW Kraków Arena
Tues 24 February LONDON Wembley SSE Arena SOLD OUT
Thurs 26 February LIVERPOOL Echo Arena SOLD OUT
Fri 27 February SHEFFIELD Motorpoint Arena SOLD OUT
April 2015: Adam first TOH single will be released.
Summer 2015: Adam's Third Studio Album, "The Original High" will be released.
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