''When those pictures came out online, I got freaked out. I was like, "Great, that's gonna fuck things up." 'Cause I just figured, you know, this is a national television program and people are conservative in our country, aside from L.A. and New York and a couple of other places.... Some people in the gay community might look at it like, 'You really should've owned that. You didn't hide it, but you didn't admit it and that's weak.' My whole point is, I'm not trying to lead the fucking way for the civil rights movement that we're in right now. I just happen to be a gay man -- and I'm not ashamed of that at all. Regardless of how I handled it, it became a huge issue. And I knew it would. So I figured, you know what, I'm just not going to label myself, I'm going to own the pictures, I'm going to get past it and just keep being myself on the show.''

Singer Adam Lambert who came in as runner up on the US's most popular television entertainment program, "American Idol." He gave an interview and appeared in a cover photo for the magazine's ''Out 100,'' but there appears to have been some questionable insistence from Lambert's publicist that he not come off as too gay. He is currently promoting his new music album, ''For Your Entertainment.'' (Out Magazine)