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Multi-platinum singer and Queen frontman, Adam Lambert tells Queerly all about his new documentary, “Adam Lambert: Out, Loud and Proud” which explores the journey of British LGBTQ+ artists who have fought for their place in the music industry.

Through interviews with Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor on Freddie Mercury, intimate conversations with Andy Bell of Erasure, Skin from Skunk Anansie, and pop icon MNEK, Lambert reveals the groundbreaking stories of these artists. The documentary also features Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, highlighting the ongoing struggles of the trans community today.

“Adam Lambert: Out, Loud and Proud” celebrates the resilience and revolutionary spirit of LGBTQ+ artists who have shaped the music world while fighting for equality and Adam sat down for a chat to tell us more:

Tell us a bit about how this hugely important project came to fruition?

It was an idea that I wanted to explore, looking at the lives and history of queer musicians inthe UK, particularly looking at our journey as a community towards equality and visibility but to do it through music and the lives of queer musicians. I’ve seen a lot of documentaries and TV specials about queer actors in the film and TV industry, because that was one of the first steps in visibility. I think now the music industry ischanging so rapidly and you’re seeing more and more musicians represent all these different identities in the umbrella rainbow that is the LGBTQ+ community. I thought to myself, ‘I haven’t seen a comprehensive look at the history of queer musicians’ and ‘I thought okay, maybe I should make one?’. I started talking with ITV and we had an amazing first meeting and it was really exciting, and that’s how it came to be.

Tell us what Adam Lambert: Out, Loud and Proud is all about?

It’s a look at the last 40 – 50 years of pop culture in the UK, particularly the musicians that have trail-blazed into our current times, in regards to queer representation. It’s still something that we’re working towards and there’s still a lot of work to be done in terms of equality. But it is getting better and it’s really fun to look back at where it started and how things have changed. Even in today’s world there are challenges that come up but looking back at history, putting it into a retrospective gives you hope and makes you realise that positive strides have been made. There’s a lot of challenges still and a lot of setbacks that we face as a community but if you compare where we’re at now to where we were at in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s, you realise things have gotten better. That’s exciting to me, being able to bring a positive outcome in this programme is very exciting.


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