Out singer Adam Lambert believes it's
getting easier for openly gay male artists.
Lambert was the first gay male artist
to have a #1 album. Since then, Frank Ocean and Sam Smith have come
close.
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Lambert honored to be first gay artist to top record charts.)
When asked by gay male entertainment
blog TheBacklot.com
whether it was getting easier for gay male artists, Lambert
responded, “I do!”
“I do think it's getting easier,”
he said. “I think people's attitudes are becoming more liberal. I
think people are understanding LGBT more, and it's becoming more
visible, and that makes people more comfortable. So it's becoming,
or I hope it's becoming, more of an afterthought.”
“I don't think a piece of music is
actually that specific, at least most of the big pop songs that I've
heard. They're non-specific, everyone can relate to them, which is
the whole point, that's why they're popular. If I'm listening to an
Adele song, which is written by a woman for a man, I can relate to it
also, and so can a straight woman, and a straight men, so why can't a
gay artist have that same kind of universal appeal?”
Lambert added that he was “getting a
little chunk of summer” before the start of the next leg of the
Queen tour.