Thank you to the amazing person that capped the sign L and I made for Today Show today. The story behind it:
Ever since Adam got pretty far I had been talking about wanting to make a queer sign for Adam to hold up somewhere. I will not rehash the big queer rant for my love of Adam, cause if you read this tumblr I think you’ve heard it enough ;) (except to say I am excited for him to hopefully talk about his sexuality on his own terms in Rolling Stone soon!) Originally my sign idea was based around the Queer as Folk (Queer as Adam?) design, but then I got L involved and we settled on the simple Queers <3 Adam. Lots of coloring and cutting an glitter application took place last night for a good cause.
When you get to the Today Show they “check your sign for offensive material” and we made it through the checkpoint fine. Our main hope was Adam would see the sign and know we queers support him, so we were holding it up during rehearsal a lot hoping he would see when he was scanning the crowd. At some point before taping started a security guard came over and yelled at us to take it down.
The Today Show’s argument was it was a “political sign.” Of note, people behind us were holding signs in reference to the Jena Six. No one spoke to them. The group next to us were wearing awesome Let Adam Lambert Marry tshirts too. So basically the Q word, even in a positive context, freaked NBC out. L went over and proceeded to argue with 4 different guards about how we were not being political and how it wasn’t any different than “Cougars for Adam” or “Christians Love Kris” etc etc. Finally after them threatening to kick us out or come into the crowd and take our sign away, someone higher up must have realized they were being idiots and allowed it. Of course after that we held up that sign every time a camera came by.
I am pretty amazed that it made it on TV that clearly! It is now sitting in my office, and hopefully someday we will be dorks enough to get Adam to sign it for us.
PS - Shout out to all the amazing people around us who were super supportive and super fun to chat with. My faith is restored that all Idol fans are not insane. I especially had fun telling tales of the two taping last week, maybe I will eventually get around to writing it up here too, or for begaylittlebird.
Edit: L tells me now that they also said we couldn’t have a sign that said Queer because there were children in the audience. And that NBC had to “respect both sides of the issue” and how it would be our fault if someone started a fight because of our sign. WTAF?!
