2.26.12 Adam on Ask Anything! Remix Clip

Gonna disagree on "the sooner the better."
BTIKM needs a few more weeks to make Top 20 on HAC and Top 40 on, well, Top 40! Otherwise, it will be labeled as a flop.
I think they've got until mid March to work on this. And it is looking good, right now.

DITTO >:( Horrible just horrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Overall -- I believe once a song is added and being played by a station, requests matter more than polls. And takeover requests that directly result in airplay are the best "polls" -- like "wack-a-mole" challenges.

Stations and PDs view the online polls differently -- and a few like Q102 Philadelphia have been clear that they care about the clicks so IMO deciding to participating in these polls has to do with the local station.

I do not know much about this station, so I will leave it to the folks from Vegas to post about this poll.

Those statements reminded me of what Adam said at the PFLAG event. "It' not so hard. It's fun!" I think in both these statements, Adam is addressing common memes about being gay. People are at various stages and levels of accepting folks who are gay. There are misconceptions at each stage.

There is the homophobic/hater stage. But, past that there is the more subtle "You are gay, but I like you anyway." Which still retains the stigma that there is something wrong, defective, or less-than about being gay.

Then, there is the sympathy stage: It must be so hard. It must be a sad life. You probably wish you were straight. If you could change your orientation, you would. This stage still contains the underlying assumption that being gay is something, if not WRONG, at least regrettable. An assumption that being gay is a burden one must bear.

I work with people who are deaf. Today, outright discrimination or disdain for people with "disabilities" or "handicaps" is unacceptable. But, just the term "disabled" or "handicapped" shows a certain mind set. The deaf people I know do not think of themselves in that light. They do not wish they were born with normal hearing. They are not looking to be "fixed." Not being able to hear is an integral part of their selves. Do they have more difficulty getting jobs, communicating with others, getting equal access to information in our society? Yes. Is it frustrating? At times. But, it doesn't make them or their lives "sad" or "difficult." Everyone has struggles and difficulties in life. You can't avoid them.

Deaf couples who have deaf children are not saddened. They are happy that their children will fully share their culture and their language. They will have shared bonds of experience. They are proud of the deaf heritage in their family.

I think that Adam is addressing this stage of perception about those who are gay. He enjoys his community, his culture, his traditions and his history as a gay man. These are things that enrich his life. Living as a gay man, openly, is fabulous and fierce.