I am a big believer in shopping, especially shopping strategically --- buy what you need (pizza), buy what you love (Prada). And support companies that support your community and your causes.
I have subscribed to OUT magazine - think GQ and Details combined, and very slightly gayer - for years. Why? There is no real content relevant to me, the travel stuff is about bars and bathhouses, and the fashion is for skinny waifs. I subscribe because I want to support a gay publication and have the gay news content coming to my house, sort of like subscribing to Maclean's simply because I am Canadian (yep, do that too).
Once in awhile OUT surprises me with an article that I find really great; and it's usually with their year-end list of the movers and shakers in the gay world.
So that issue is now out, and it has solid choices like newly out Wanda Sykes and homo fairy godmother Cyndi Lauper. Also on the list is American Idol finalist Adam Lambert, who I fess up to not knowing much about other than he's gay and he didn't win.
And in order to promote the issue in these revenue-challenged times, we have a big gay controversy about Lambert. OUT's editor, Aaron Hicklin, wrote an open letter to Lambert, blasting him for the restrictions his management team put on the cover shoot, such as having a woman in the shot, and not appearing "too gay".
First of all - the obvious - "too gay"? This is a mascara-loving out gay pop singer willingly on the cover of super-gay OUT magazine. So what exactly is "too gay"?
Then - the big one - who is the editor of a magazine to blast Lambert publicly? Pretty tacky. This guy is building his career and has advisers and managers and groupies and whatever, like every other celebrity trying to manage the spin. If you don't like his rules, then say no to playing ball with him - don't first agree and then turn around and attack. According to my copy of OUT, Lambert is one of your notable people of influence as "Breakout of the Year", and is on the cover, so what's your beef? If you had such an issue with his way of doing things, don't put him on your cover. Why should he follow your way of doing things? Isn't a magazine like OUT about acceptance and celebration of differences?
Bottom line - the editor of OUT is guilty of a cheap and hypocritical publicity grab, albeit one that worked. Or he's simply an idiot.
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