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Post by skaschep on Apr 23, 2019 16:26:59 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Apr 23, 2019 16:30:09 GMT -5
twitter.com/lyndseyparker/status/1120796174246662144Lÿndsey Parker @lyndseyparker Did a really good interview with @americanidol's @jlloydharmon this week. It's worth your time. Thank you #JeremiahLloydHarmon for your bravery. www.yahoo.com/entertainment/american-idol-hopeful-jeremiah-lloyd-harmons-brave-comingout-story-everybody-was-a-little-jolted-by-how-transparent-i-was-being-205533204.html … Ten years ago, a couple weeks ahead of the American Idol Season 8 finale, Entertainment Weekly put Adam Lambert on its cover and predicted that he might be the first gay singer to win the show. That didn’t happen, although Lambert did quite all right for himself — releasing three top 10 solo albums, scoring a Grammy nomination, and, of course, becoming the new frontman for Queen. As Lambert returns to the show this Sunday to mentor Season 17’s top eight contestants on Queen Night, the landscape has changed a great deal, and now Idol may very well soon crown its first LGBTQ winner: Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon, a spectacular vocalist whom judge Lionel Richie once recently said could hit “notes that Freddie Mercury can’t do.” “The climate has changed. This is 2019,” longtime American Idol executive producer Megan Michaels Wolflick tells Yahoo Entertainment when asked about Harmon’s chances. “Back when Adam was on the show, he wasn't as open or as free; now it's not even a question. People just come in, it's part of their life, part of their story. I think Adam at the time probably would have been open to it. [Editor’s note: Lambert first publicly, and very frankly, addressed his sexuality after his Idol season ended, via a cover-story interview for Rolling Stone.] We didn't censor it, it was just the climate [compared to] where we are now.” Harmon’s story is very different from Lambert’s, and not because his sexuality has been such a prominent part of his edit on the show. While Lambert grew up in liberal Southern California and had been out to his friends and extremely accepting relatives since he was a teenager, Harmon grew up as a pastor’s son in the small Maryland town of Catonsville, and he only came out to his religious, conservative family three years ago, at age 23. “The consensus seemed to be that this is not a path that I should follow,” Harmon told the show’s producers of his family’s displeased reaction at the time. He later revealed that he had left home and quit his janitorial job at his father’s church, leading viewers to believe he and his family were now sadly estranged.
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Post by MeggyMeg on Apr 23, 2019 16:34:20 GMT -5
Theses foxes are so cute and growing like weeds.
Brian is awesome.
And those "Listening Party" photos. Pretty overload - can't stop staring.
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Post by ladyM :) on Apr 23, 2019 16:37:17 GMT -5
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Post by svca on Apr 23, 2019 16:59:41 GMT -5
Omg, that video was HILARIOUS!! Thanks for posting that, ladyM. I can't remember if I've seen that before or not.
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Post by ladyM :) on Apr 23, 2019 17:00:52 GMT -5
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Post by bamafan on Apr 23, 2019 17:03:58 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Apr 23, 2019 17:11:47 GMT -5
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Post by ladyM :) on Apr 23, 2019 17:14:41 GMT -5
Omg, that video was HILARIOUS!! Thanks for posting that, ladyM. I can't remember if I've seen that before or not. YVW!
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Post by bamafan on Apr 23, 2019 17:16:44 GMT -5
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