Rocker Adam Lambert has joined the
effort to end anti-gay bullying.
The American Idol season 8
runner-up released his video for the It Gets Better campaign on
Monday.
In the 90-second, black-and-white clip,
the singer, who came out gay last year on the cover of Rolling
Stone, tells gay teens to stay strong and proud.
“What you're doing by being who you
are is you're keeping it real and you're really brave. I believe in
you. I think it's great.”
“It seems hard,” Lambert says. “I
think being different is always going to be a tough climb.”
Lambert's message also addresses the
homophobia that even he has to face.
“Even I get bullied. You look under
any comment section on any article, and there's bullies in there
telling me that I'm a f****t, that I'm ugly, that I'm gross – 'Ew,
gross, nasty, he's a girly' – all this crap. I'm singled out and
it's all 'gay, gay, gay, gay, gay,' even though there is so much more
to me than just who I choose to sleep with.”
“It gets better,” Lambert adds,
“but it's up to you.” (The video is embedded in the right panel
of this page.)
Lambert
attracted headlines last week when protesters in Malaysia decried his
performance as promoting “gay culture.”