Adam is fighting back via twitter
"Dear Aaron, it's def not that deep. Chill! Guess ya gotta get attention for the magazine. U too are at the mercy of the marketing machine."
He also linked this blog, the article titled 'Planet Fierce OpEd
Response to "Open Letter to Adam"
http://planetfierce.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=single&action=display&thread=170&page=1
and another
"Until we have a meaningful conversation, perhaps you should refrain from projecting your publications' agenda onto my career." GOOD FOR HIM <3
That whole thing made me so angry. Don't get me wrong, I doubt that Out would outright lie, and I DO appreciate that they called attention to 19E's homophobic and offensive actions. That I have no problem with.
But the WAY the editor went about it was just pathetic and disrespectful. Instead of focusing on what
should have been the important part- the actions of 19E that are offensive and homopic- he turned the whole thing on ADAM, and made it about the fact that Adam should be "leading the fight for the gay community". Which just COMPLETELY risrespected every single thing Adam expressed in the interview!! He does not WANT to be the poster boy for the gay cause because he
doesn't believe in defining himself by his sexuality. Which I happen to think is incredibly wise, and certain people in the gay community would do well to take a page from his book. But even aside from that, the fact is that Adam has a clear set of convictions in terms of how he wants to approach this political stuff that's been thrown at him, and the editor completely disrespected that.
To call out 19E for homophobic actions? That's good. To try and turn it on Adam as if he's the one
advocating for it, and suggest that it's his
obligation to be a pioneer for the gay cause? That's just not cool, and placing a totally unfair burden on him.
For anyone who's actually READ the interview (unlike the editor, clearly), they'd see that it's not like Adam is just totally afraid to get at all political. No, he IS standing for something and he DOES have clear reasons as to why he doesn't want to get into the politics of it all. And of course part of it is that he doesn't want to start alienating needed fans- that's perfectly understandable. I mean come on, he's one of the first American celebrities to START off his career already being out! That alone is a very brave thing. It makes sense that it would be in his interest to play it safer for a bit while he's still working on building his fan base. But it's also because his entire outlook on the issue is that it should BE a
thing. That people
shouldn't feel the need to box themselves in and create this exlusive gay community- instead people should just focus on being a
human community. And certain parts of the gay community (and maybe even some straight people too) may not like that that's his viewpoint, but it is and they should at least respect it as such.
It's just sad that after Adam gave this INCREDIBLE long, insightful, raw, open-book interview (seriously, he poured his heart out about many things that most people would NOT have had the guts to go into), and how did they repay him? By calling him out on something that was in NO way his fault!!
/rant. haha
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
Updated On: 11/17/09 at 07:28 PM
And he did! So yay <3 
