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Adam Lambert is taking on a new role in Out, Loud & Proud

With a career spanning over 15 years, Adam Lambert is the poster child for many queer young people’s upbringing both in the UK and across the pond.

From appearing on American Idol in 2009 to touring globally with Queen bandmates Sir Brian May and Roger Taylor in recent years – his unique, leather-clad star has consistently risen.

But in Out, Loud & Proud, Lambert takes on a new role – the interviewer – and is a shining example of how effective it is to use your position within an industry to not only celebrate those who have come before us, but uplift those being targeted right now because of their sexuality or gender identity.

The new star-studded ITV1 documentary features contributions from the likes of Erasure’s Andy Bell and Lambert’s bandmates May and Taylor, where we are given the opportunity to reflect on the pernicious influence that homophobia had on musicians in the 1980s and early 90s.

The media speculation surrounding entertainers’ sexualities made consistent headline news, with Lambert explaining the often unknown history of Elton John coming out as bisexual before sharing that he was in fact gay in the early 1990s due to media speculation and harassment at the time by the press.

Knowing queer history is deeply important for the generations of LGBTQ+ people who have only ever existed in times that are considerably more free than those of our queer elders. But where Lambert shines is in his ability to use his position to allow musicians who don’t often get the spotlight, to share their stories of discrimination and strife, not for the sake of ‘trauma porn’, but for us as an audience to see behind the showbiz curtain and understand that it’s not all sunshine and rainbows on stage.


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