Clay Aiken Comes Out of His Glass Closet
Not that we didn’t know already, but Clay Aiken has decided to officially come out of the closet and declare to the world that he is gay.
He says he’s not doing it to appease the public, nor is he really doing it for himself. He is doing it for his new baby, Parker.
“It was the first decision I made as a father. 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.”
Still, he says he expects a backlash from fans who don’t accept him for who he is.
“Whether it be having a child out of wedlock, or whether it be simply being a homosexual, it’s going to be a lot. [I hope my fans] know that I’ve never intended to lie to anybody at all. But if they leave, I don’t want them to leave hating me.”
Aiken, 29, comes from a Christian family and says he found it difficult to tell his mother the truth. Then one day he just couldn’t hold it in anymore. He and his mother, Faye, had just dropped off his younger brother Brett, who was being deployed to Iraq, at Camp Lejeune.
He recalls, “I started crying in the car. 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.
“She started crying. She was obviously somewhat stunned. But she was very supportive and very comforting. She still struggles with things quite a bit, but she’s come a long way.”
Regarding his own son, who was conceived via in-vitro fertilization, he says that he will be “accepting and allowing him to be happy. I have no idea if he’ll be gay or straight. It’s not something I’ll have anything to do with, or that he’ll have anything to do with. It’s already probably up inside the code there. No matter what the situation you’re in, if you’re raised in a loving environment, that’s the most important thing.”
Good for Clay. People make fun of him, but I think he is adorable. I bet he feels like the weight of the world has just been lifted off his shoulders.
And isn’t his baby just darling??



























