May 16th - In the cover interview with Beatweek Magazine, Adam talks about how falling in love but seeing the problems the gay community faces with regards to marriage led to his song, Outlaws Of Love.
Adam Lambert is the most prominent openly homosexual pop star of his era, but not until now has he addressed the subject in his art. Outlaws Of Love, which he scribed with fellow singer BC Jean and Rune Westberg, tackles the issue of gay marriage head on. “I was knee deep in the honeymoon phase of my relationship,” he says, and “I was seeing something about the bullying that was going on, the struggle and the debate about gay marriage. Just kind of taking it all in, our whole community, and looking at it quite broadly, the LGBT community, and realizing that I had a lot of great, positive memories and experiences within the community. But one of the things that I felt all the sudden was that sadness that comes over me when I realize how many challenges we have, and when I realize that it is an uphill climb to reach total acceptance and tolerance. It just made me sad. That’s what that song is about. It’s about how sometimes it just sucks, you know? It just sucks that the reason why we’re being discriminated against and/or ostracized is because of who we’re choosing to love. To me, when it comes down to it love is a great thing, and I was realizing how much I was falling in love and realizing that was the very reason why people were being called out. We’re being outlawed for who we’re choosing to love.”
(picture from Brooke's wedding August 2011)
article here: http://www.beatweek.com/coverstory/12780-adam-lambert-the-beatweek-cover-story-interview/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=shortlink&utm_campaign=shortlinks
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