Rocker Adam Lambert says his
controversial kiss was a reaction to critics who said he wasn't gay
enough.
Speaking with gay glossy The
Advocate, Lambert said the kiss just happened. But
provocative it was, and it fired up Lambert's burgeoning career.
After he publicly came out gay on the
cover of Rolling Stone, the 29-year-old American Idol
season 8 runner-up grabbed international headlines for kissing his
male keyboardist and simulating oral sex during his American Music
Awards performance. The kiss prompted ABC to cancel a morning show
appearance.
“I kind of asked for it in a way,”
Lambert said. “Not everything is so premeditated as people think
it is. There are things that just happen, there are things you just
do. It was an impulse.”
“I think I was a little overwhelmed
with everything. It was me reacting a little bit to that 'you're not
gay enough' thing. At that moment for whatever reason I was like,
'Well, is this enough? It was me being a little bit pissed off!”
Lambert added.