Adam Lambert hesitated to speak out on
gay rights, saying he did not set out to be a role model for LGBT
youth.
The 30-year-old Lambert said he
accepted the responsibility with a great deal of reluctance.
“At the beginning I was a little bit
like, 'I don't know what to say, I don't know how to be that role
model,' even though, all of a sudden, people are telling me I am,”
Lambert said in a video interview with Billboard.com.
“One of the things I find very
gratifying now is that I have grown a lot more comfortable with my
position and I'm embracing the opportunity to be able to address this
stuff through music.”
“There's not just one type of gay
person,” he added, “and that's the hardest part about being one
of the few in the public eye. I'm not the guy next door,
necessarily. I dress kinda crazy, I'm a little bit more in-your-face
about some of my instincts, and I’ve gotten a certain amount of
flak for that because I get the sentiment of 'you're not representing
us in a way that's going to help us integrate and help outside society accept us.'”
He added that artists “are supposed
to be individuals.”
Lambert described his sophomore album
Trespassing as a “post-gay statement” on life and love
that everyone can relate to. (The video is embedded in the right
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