In a new interview with Josh Smith's Great Chat Show, QUEEN frontman Adam Lambert spoke about the effect 'toxic masculinity' is having on young men, particularly within the gay community.

He said in part: 'Think about it.

We're already dealing with our own shame around who we are — especially gay men, I think.

I think gay women have their own set of stuff that they deal with, too, but it's a little less scrutinized by the straight world… But I think the reason why gay men get it worse than the gay women is because of toxic masculinity.

It's because society expects men to act a certain way, to look a certain way, and if you don't, you're not a man or you're not enough of a man.' After podcast host Josh Smith noted 'we've all seen the pictures of the gays on their holidays' showing off their 'six-packs and the abs', Adam said: 'I saw a picture the other day and I was, like, 'Geez, they all look the same.'\ And they all look great.

I'm, like, 'Go on.

Good job.

You were working real hard in the gym.

Get it.,' Lambert added: 'Look, I'm a creative.

It's different for me.

I'm a theater kid.

I'm an artist.

Of course I'm gonna be more outrageous.

And, of course, there are gay men that are sort of like… they live, quote-unquote, normal lives.

They have a job that's a more pedestrian job, maybe.

Their interests are maybe less colorful and weird and wild than mine, and that's fine.

But how much of it is natural and just how they are, and how much of it is because they're afraid to express that? How much of it is because they just wanna be accepted? It's the chicken or the egg.

What is it?,' Adam went on to say: 'I think some of it is for the acceptance from the straight world, but I also think a lot of it is within the community too, is that there's such shame around anything other than a masc man that all these guys are assimilating into that in order to be validated or in order to be desirable.' Lambert spoke about this year's LGBTQ+ Pride Month with Audacy Music earlier this month.

He stated: 'It's incredible how much change has happened.

When I first came out into the music scene, there weren't really any other gay men doing mainstream pop music.' Lambert added that he would love to see Pride this year put some emphasis on us as a community,' and emphasized the importance of inclusion for trans people.

The interview concludes with Lambert discussing his latest single 'Eat U Alive' from his upcoming album 'Adam', set to arrive on July 10 via his own label.