Adam Lambert has claimed ABC threatened him with a lawsuit over his famed same-sex kiss at the 2009 American Music Awards.The Queen singer, 40 - who recently slammed the idea of Theo James playing George Michael in a biopic - spoke about homophobia he had experienced in his career which escalated when he spontaneously kissed his keyboardist during his performance at the awards.Speaking at the 2023 Creative Coalition Spotlight Initiative Gala on Saturday, he said: 'I did the kind of performance I’d seen since I was a teenager.
I was like, I want to be sexy and have dancers on stage, and I did a couple of suggestive moves with some of my dancers and an impromptu kiss...
I was feeling it.' Moment in history: Adam Lambert has claimed ABC threatened him with a lawsuit over his famed same-sex kiss at the 2009 American Music Awards'The network was like, "How dare you?" They banned me for a while.
They threatened me with a lawsuit. I was like, "Oh, OK, that’s where we’re at."''I didn’t know. I lived in a bubble in LA amongst artists and weirdos, and I didn’t realize that kind of thing ruffled feathers the way it did.
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