Like a lot of chart-topping pop stars, Adam Lambert didn't set out to be a role model. Yet, as soon as the openly-gay 'American Idol' alum began to attract the ears and eyes of a mass, mainstream audience, the pressure grew for him to become the voice of LGBT youth -- a responsibility that Lambert accepted with a great deal of reluctance.

"At the beginning I was a little bit like, 'I don't know what to say, I don't know how to be that role model,' even though all of a sudden people are te...