GMA Cancels Lambert, Books Brown

You might remember that when ABC’s Good Morning America canceled Adam Lambert’s planned performance appearance for his racy American Music Awards routine last Sunday, the CBS “Early Show” hastily arranged an interview. The taped intro to that appearance then caused its own brouhaha because CBS blurred the AMA footage of Lambert kissing his male keyboardist, but then went on moments later to show footage of the Madonna-Britney kiss.*

If you think that would be the end of it, think again…

ABC has now booked “Rihanna-beater” Chris Brown for an interview and a performance on — you guessed it — Good Morning America. Brown will do a performance and a taped piece with Robin Roberts that is scheduled to air the week after next.

Not surprisingly, that has some women’s groups and LGBT activists wondering how it is that a convicted girlfriend abuser is ok, but an openly gay man who simulated sex with a dancer and smooched his male keyboardist is not.

Meanwhile, there are those in the gay community who believe all of this is a setback the movement. And the Liberty Counsel did file a complaint with the FCC against ABC over Lambert’s “lewd and filthy” American Music Awards appearance.

* For the record, Madonna kissed both Britney and Christina Aguilera in the performance, but the full-on close-up of the lip-lock w/Britney gets all of the attention.