Adam Lambert's Album Sales Soar Despite Contreversy

Adam Lambert, runner up in last season's "American Idol" recently was the subject of critism because of his sexually provacitive performance at the American Music Awards Sunday night, where he simulated sexual activities, and then kissed the keyboardist of his band. However, his album is the fifth most downloaded on iTunes, and the ninth most purchased on Amazon.com. ABC, the network which aired the show and recieved over 1500 complaints after the performace, cancelled Lambert's follow up performace on "Good Morning America". But the CBS "Early Show" picked him up instead where he performed two songs, was interviewed, and took questions from the crowd.
Lambert told CBS that he thinks many people got offended by his performance at the AMA's because he is a gay man. Although he admitted to being risque and understood why some might be offended, he didn't apologize for his provactive performance, claiming that was his creative interpretation of the song, and that he wanted to have fun with it.
I find anybody that found his performance to be provacitive to be a hypocrite. The media is completely saturated with male hetrosexuality, but if a gay man wants to express himself, all of a sudden its a huge problem. This, among other things, shows how homophobic America still is as a whole, and that America needs to learn to accept all types of sexuality, not just heterosexuality.
For example, every year on cable TV, the "Victoria's Secret Fashion Show" is aired, where skinny women with large boobs prance around in tiny flamboyant undergarments for the world to admire, in particular the American heterosexual man. This is apparently ok, but a gay man expressing himself and kissing another man is 'offensive'.
Despite this, the fact that Lambert's album is selling like hotcakes shows that there are a good percentage of people out there who believe in the idea of embracing yourself and your sexuality. It is good that many people support Lambert's openness about his sexuality and his music, or don't care about his sexuality enough to let it affect their taste in music. Whether some are advocates for Lambert's behavior, or just like his music, it shows that homophobia is becoming less prevelent in today's society, although the complaints show it isn't yet dead and gone.
I say, get off your high horse, homophobes, and kudos to Adam Lambert and everyone else who believes and supports embracing, loving and expressing your sexuality, and yourself.

Here is the article link: http://cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/27/adam.lambert.album/index.html