Nick715 said:

Richard is already gay, he told you with his reactions to things. He don't have to "announce it" to me! LOL

Man the moment I saw him audition on American Idol in 2003, I knew he was a "rainbow child". It was just a matter of time before he realized he was one. Good for him, now he doesn't have to try and lie, as if he hid it well.

Imago gets firsts.

I'm actually a horse.

I can no longer live a lie.

Cow said:

How'd you fit in that closet anyway?

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Good for him.

Welcome to the family.

Somewhere, a solitary midwestern housewife with extremely shitty taste in music is shocked.

eugnj420 said:

Don't you mean millions of women who voted for him to win AI?

WHAT?!?! My mind can't wrap around this totally new information.

SUPRMAN said:

Oh i'm so shocked. He was my idol. All of those ladies he used
to get it on with after his shows. Damn i'm so disappointed.

"I for one am truly shocked"

SUPRMAN said:

like nobody didnt know.he didnt need to get on people bitch we all knew lol

I wonder who's his business associate.

This is like watching Titanic. I mean, everybody knew the damn boat was going to sink, but we still watched it to see just how it would unfold in the movie.

Imago said:

oh my god. is this some kind of filthy mansex metaphor made up entirely of your gay lingo codewords?

Didn't Rosie out him like a year ago?

Stymie said:

She sure did!

Thank you Clay, for giving me a good laugh after a hard day of work. I don't think I ever laughed so much at someone "stating the obvious".
While I'm not a fan of his music, I do wish Clay and his son all the best. Hopefully, fatherhood will keep him out of the recording studio.

Timmy84 said:

WTF? where did he get that baby from then?

ugh, i thought if you were gay you didn't have sex with girlies?

MikeMatronik said:

wake me when Ryan Seacrest comes out.

Bewdy said:

Artificial insemination.

Timmy84 said:

the image of that creature masturbating...

I admire him for his humanitarian work, and I admire him for coming out because I've been there myself and it's hard enough even when you don't have to face media and public scrutiny. The more high-profile people that come out, the better.

He sounds like a genuinely nice guy and I wish him the best.

Clay is gay: Aiken comes out of the closet

By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, AP Music Writer Wed Sep 24, 10:45 AM ET

NEW YORK - Clay Aiken appears on the cover of the latest People magazine holding his infant son, Parker Foster Aiken, with the headline: "Yes, I'm Gay."

The 29-year-old former "American Idol" runner-up, multiplatinum recording artist and Broadway star credits his son, conceived by in-vitro fertilization with friend and producer Jaymes Foster, with making him realize that he could no longer hide his homosexuality from the world.

"It was the first decision I made as a father," Aiken told the magazine, which arrives on newsstands Friday. "I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that."

Aiken, who rose to fame on "Idol" in 2003, has long been the subject of rumors and tabloid fodder that he was gay, but usually refused to acknowledge them. In an interview with The Associated Press two years ago, he said of the talk: "I don't really feel like I have anybody to answer to but myself and God and the people I love."

Aiken said he only told his family that he was gay four years ago. He recalled a tearful discussion with his mother in a car after dropping off his brother, who was being sent to Iraq, at a military base.

"It was dark. I was sitting there, thinking to myself. I don't know why I started thinking about it ... I just started bawling. She made me pull over the car and it just came out," he said. "She started crying. She was obviously somewhat stunned. But she was very supportive and very comforting."

Aiken said his mother "still struggles with things quite a bit, but she's come a long way."

The magazine cover features Aiken holding his son, who was born in August. The baby's mother is Aiken's record producer, whom he met while performing on "Idol."

Aiken, who considers himself a born-again Christian, said he knows he may turn off some fans — known as Claymates — with his admission and his decision to have a child outside traditional marriage.

"I've never intended to lie to anybody at all," he said. "But if they leave, I don't want them to leave hating me."

Gay groups applauded Aiken's public admission.

"We congratulate Clay for making this decision and for setting an example for others and his family," said Neil Giuliano, president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. As we're seeing, more and more gay people, including celebrities, are living openly and honestly, and this has tremendous impact in terms of creating awareness, understanding and acceptance."

Aiken recently released the CD "On My Way Here." He made his Broadway debut this spring in "Monty Python's Spamalot."

SCNDLS said:

Soemone on another board said that. When I saw that photo, I was shocked because I assumed that Clay was a lesbian!

sure he's gay, but when will he admit that he's a douche?

What a truly bizarre place the world is, where a man can declare himself not only to be gay, but also father of a new born child, while at the same time claiming to be a born again christian?!?

How many contradictions can one person make in such a few paragraphs?

It seems people can pretty much do what ever they like these days without any regard for sense or reason?

Bewdy said:

Not sure what is contradictory about any of this. Gay people can have children through artificial insemination and surrogate mothers, and religion means many things to many different people so if he identifies as gay and Christian, it sounds reasonable to me.

Bewdy said:

mccain should have chosen him as a running mate.