via People.com.

American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert pulled out the stops for your entertainment (album name pun!) at his sexually-amped performance on the American Music Awards, only to have his scheduled performance on Good Morning America canceled in light of some 1,500 complaints lodged at ABC after his AMA show. Glambert has called this a double standard: after all, haven’t female pop divas been shaking their no-no parts and engaging in same-sex mouth-to-mouth for, well, forever? And lest we forget, it wasn’t too long ago a young man named Elvis swiveled his pelvis much to the dismay and offense of pop culture consumers around the country.

Perhaps exacerbating the whole situation is the fact that Adam is openly gay. Lambert lovers have been abuzz, implying that GMA’s move underscores some latent homophobia. But is it REALLY homophobia or just a reaction to a bawdy one-off? The Parents Television Council would have you think the latter, insisting that his “tasteless and vulgar” performance — which featured serious S&M-inspired antics and an oral sex simulation, edited out for the West Coast airing — is, in so many words, corrupting the youth of America. (Strangely, I haven’t read any statements about all those uncomfortable erectile dysfunction drug commercials routinely free-balling on the airwaves…)

But this statement seems just a skotch naive. The same has been said about video games, TV shows (hey, Gossip Girl) and any other entertainment that’s remotely violent or sexually suggestive — and even when it’s not (hey, Tinky-Winky). The PTC also ignores other outlets where teens can look to for some old-fashioned moral corruption: YouTube. The Internet. The same home of Lady Gaga’s latest music video where she straddles her would-be “buyer” in a futuristic Russian bath house. The media stages for pomaded popstar thrustathons are fungible, because they no longer exist just on TV, although gay Adam will, indeed, get to sing his “ballad” on CBS instead, followed by a late night appearance on Letterman.

So what say you, culture vultures, on Glambert-gate 2009? This might be the last major popstar controversy of the year. Make it count.