Closeted Gay Pop Singers
Fox is hardly going to risk the cash cow called American Idol by promoting openly gay men as pop singers. A large portion of the talent contest’s audience is socially and sexually conservative middle Americans.
Hidden sexualities on Idol always must be viewed in light of the general discomfort about sex that dominates the show. It’s fairly ridiculous that a program designed to create the next major pop star barely lets its participants show leg or sing racy lyrics …
Within a painfully immodest pop universe, “Idol” stands as a champion of family values — and of the endangered naughty giggle. The banter between the show’s male regulars, especially host Ryan Seacrest and judge Simon Cowell, is steeped in an outdated frat-boy homophobia that is never funny and often deeply uncomfortable.
American Idol needs to open the closet door
If Adam Lambert is gay and does come out of his closet it will be after his stint on Idol. Perhaps only if his pop music career fails.
But this year we’ve got Adam Lambert on deck. Could he be the great hope for gays on Idol? He hasn’t specifically addressed his sexuality (and it’s a good guess that Idol producers are telling him not to), but judging by those photos that surfaced last week, it’s certainly a great possibility that this boy could be into boys. (I mean, he’s kissing other boys in some of the photos and dressed in some quite fabulous drag in others.)
American Idol : Why are you afraid of being gay? (When you already are.)
The music is such awful slop I’d much rather think them all heterosexual.