9.26.11 Adam News and Info

I got some more pics from wire images. These are the last ones








And let's not forget the rings



and of course the shoes. LOL I wonder if he is the only man in this business that he gets his shoes being photographed!!

ITA; ironically, though I know there is a negative connotation in the genesis of the word, I never think of it as negative anymore.

LOVE your post, 8toinfinity!!! and you certainly have a unique angle. I totally didn't think anything negative was implied with the comments that it doesn't have to be a hard life in Adam's speech either.

I think some of his amazing attitude stems from the fact that he NEVER seems to dwell on things, particularly past pain and frustration. Like the struggles he had trying to make it in entertainment. (I was watching the Slezak interviews yesterday, and the question about why was he never signed ... he is so matter-of-fact and positive about something many might consider a great injustice if they were in his shoes.)

Same with his contention that living an out life can really be a lot of fun; it doesn't have to be hard. He has such an "it is what it is" attitude that the hard stuff never seems to even permeate. Or he just somehow exorcises that baggage from his consciousness.

I really thought it interesting that he had to actively "go back" to his time as a teenager to remember. (Kind of reminded me how he talked about having to go back to journals to remind himself what it was like to NOT be blissfully in love.)

He has an uncanny ability to not carry that stuff around with him and I think that's why some have accused him of being blasé about gay rights issues in the past, but I really think it's part of his almost super-human ability to be so unrelentingly positive.

Whoa! I hope Cam elaborates on this tweet! WUT?!

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So we've joined the ranks alongside @bjaofficial and @thatkevinsmith for being kicked off an @southwestair flight, this time for being gay.

:-/

Scars make us who we are
Hearts and homes are broken, broken
Far, we could go so far
With our minds wide open, open.

Certainly not the lyrics from somebody who does not understand that others have it much harder than he himself does. Others already said, that is not what he meant and he did not quite see initially where his own role and involvement in all this would eventually be.

I have often wondered how Adam's "coming out" as a celebrity would have happened, if speculation in the media had not run rampant during idol and he would have been famous as singer who won/almost won idol first and would have had the time to process everything and then create his own "public coming out" moment.

Thanks to Perez Hilton, Bill O'Reilly and many others we will never know. It was not meant to happen that way. But I am convinced that this whole alteration in plans did throw Adam for a loop.

Clearly he had thought about it beforehand. He had thought about celebrity status (pop goes the camera) and had decided that he wanted to live as an OUT celebrity should he every achieve any fame long before that actually happened. He then proudly wrote that he was gay on his idol application. There was no intent to hide, just an intent to make this about music and the arts rather than about everything else.

Then, when things obviously did not quite go that way during idol and thereafter and he was asked even right in the idol finale press conference what he thought about those bloggers that say that he only lost because he was gay (by the way: A situation he handled brilliantly, imo) he had to rethink things. Obviously it dawned on him that the reality of his situation looked a little differently than whatever he had planned out for himself.

So his immediate action plan was: Turn that RS offer into his opportunity and use that to officially bury the ongoing rumor frenzy, meanwhile manage people like Perez for 4 weeks so they don't ruin that plan-B and then otherwise play "a hide and seek game" with the rest of the media and all the paparazzi who were eager to get the scoop or interview.

In my mind, Adam made the absolute best out of the situation as it was.

Then came the post RS time and I think he thought that now that all was in the open, he would get a breather. He found out that this was not to be. All the expectations from everyone around were coming down on him right at a time where he tried to create his album and was on tour and really had no time to think twice about what to do about the continued debate. He probably wondered why people stayed so interested.

He was not the first celebrity to "come out", he was also not the most famous person to be out, so why did the topic not go away?

That is where he had to find his continued role and I think that this is what he truly was struggling with for a while.

For people like i.e. Ricky Martin just the step of coming out was a twenty year long battle and so that made sense in some way because something had been overcome. For Adam, he did not personally feel that struggle so much in his life and so the soap box moment was not so important.

But given that the topic did not go away for him he had to find his voice and will continue to have to find his way of making sense of the fact that a huge part of his private life is dragged out and discussed in public. He is being honored for being a representative of the gay community, his public voice on behalf of this community that is not one homogeneous block continues to be a strong one.

In many ways Adam is again one step ahead of the pack. It is not his coming out that adds the significance to his life, but rather his personal WAY of being out.

ETA: just fixed some sentences