Adam Lambert elaborates on battle with Out Magazine: “I’m not being puppeted around”

You gotta give Adam Lambert credit: the guy knows who he is.

If you a regular reader of this blog or any LGBT sites, then you are well aware of the war of words that took place this week between Adam and Out Magazine which features a a really good interview with the American Idol runner-up as well as him on the cover posing with a handful of other Out 100 honorees.

Out editor Aaron Hicklin published a scathing letter in the magazine taking Adam’s handlers to task for insisting Adam not appear on the cover alone and that the interview not be “Too gay.” Then Adam responded Wednesday via Twitter telling Hicklin to “Chill Out.”

He elaborates in an interview with Entertainment Weekly saying that Hicklin “really crossed a line.”

“What people don’t realize is, I am managing my image, more than maybe the editor of OUT magazine likes to give anybody credit for. My team is a team. And I really feel fortunate that 19 Management and Simon Fuller said to me, from the get-go, “We want to do what you want to do. You need to tell us how you want to do things, what interests you have,” and they’ve been incredibly supportive of me. I really mean it. I’m not being puppeted around. I didn’t want to jump onto a gay magazine as my first thing, because I feel like that’s putting myself in a box and limiting myself. It was my desire to stay away from talking about certain political and civil rights issues because I’m not a politician. I’m an entertainer. That is not my area of expertise. I can talk about relationships and personal experiences because as an artist those things involve writing lyrics and that part of my process. But I didn’t feel comfortable talking about the March on Washington. I didn’t feel comfortable, so I asked my publicist to ask the interviewer to stay away from the political questions. I take full responsibility for that. I think that the editor has his agenda and has his opinions, which I respect, but they’re not necessarily my opinions. And I wish there was a little respect for that. Not every gay man is the same gay man.”