Adam Lambert Flap: A Double Standard?
Lambert's 'GMA' Performance Canceled
POSTED: Tuesday, November 24, 2009
UPDATED: 6:58 pm EST November 24,
2009
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WILTON MANORS, Fla. -- "American Idol" finalist Adam Lambert's controversial performance at the American Music Awards stirred up so much controversy that "Good Morning America" dropped his appearance from Wednesday's show.Lambert's live performance at the award's show certainly caused some controversy. The openly gay singer's kiss with his male keyboardist shocked viewers, but it was the simulated sex act on stage that brought more than 1,500 complaints to the Federal Communications Commission.On Tuesday, producers from "Good Morning America" canceled Lambert's scheduled appearance for Wednesday morning.“Given his controversial American Music Awards performance, we were concerned about airing a similar concert so early in the morning," a GMA representative said.Some said the cancellation was based on a double standard. In 2003, Madonna and Britney Spears kissed onstage, and it was deemed an edgy performance.Dean Trantalis, a Wilton Manors attorney and gay rights activist, said the performance was inappropriate but that Lambert should be judged by the same standards."What he did onstage is totally in line with what other performers have done, and I think that for them to deny him continued access to the media, his inability to show himself as a performer, I think shows that America is unwilling to accept the gay community the same way they accept performers in the straight community," Trantalis said.Trantalis said Madonna and Spears are clearly not gay, but he said if two lesbians were to have performed the same thing, they would have been ostracized.
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