The singing nerd boy from AI
The one said he don’t like guys
may just turn out to have the Gay™
and he caught it from… the Green Beret.
Whatever its truth value it’s gonna be in the news lots and lots and lots for the next few days. Clay Aiken is the subject of a tabloid story that he had unprotected sex with a 38 year old Green Beret named John Paulus (who says he has received death threatens from Claymates and that he has… ahem… irrefutable evidence [ala Lewinsky]).
If true, Paulus deserves an ass whoopin’ for promising to not talk and then selling the story to tabloids. OTOH, Clay has some ‘splainin’ to do as well.
If not true, I think the tabloid will soon be known as Clay’s Enquirer.
Either way, money and thin and all I’m glad I’m not Clay Aiken at this particular moment.
(The link above is to a blog, but you can google the story yourself- it’s all over the I’net already.)
I saw that earlier. All I have to say is that this is surprising NOBODY but Claymates and ewww to the washcloth!
When I read the DNA bit, I started to think about a new version of “Jurrassic Park”, with giant Clays running around, totally in denial, terrorizing Branson MO.
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Clay Aiken is the subject of a tabloid story that he had unprotected sex with a 38 year old Green Beret named John Paulus (who says he has received death threatens from Claymates and that he has… ahem… irrefutable evidence [ala Lewinsky]).
“Claymates” are threatening the life of a Green Beret?
I’d like to see them try. They’d get their asses handed to them.
Has Aiken ever publicly, point-blank denied being gay? I thought it was something he always just refused to comment on. I also assumed that everybody knew he was gay. I didn’t realize he still had so many fans in denial about it.
That’s crap. It was the public with their speculation and the media with their rude probing into his personal business who brought it on. He has, for the most part, steadfastly refused to entertain the question, and if and when he has, he’s only mildly brushed it off as untrue.
It’s not about being in denial, it’s about taking the man at his word. Geek /= Gay.
This is officially the first post in a long time to make me literally spew Coke.
Yes, he has. Repeatedly. In a Rolling Stone interview, an episode of The Tonight Show and a London interview among others. To his credit he’s never made anti-gay comments and said basically he takes the gay rumors in stride (he even made jokes about them on SNL), but he has stated it as an assertive negative.
Of course, Clay grew up in a dysfunctional family (it’s why he dropped his biological father’s surname) and in the southern Baptist church (where he did his first public singing). It’s not totally inconceivable he didn’t realize he was gay until he had more exposure.
I should perhaps elaborate a tad more for those not familiar with the extremely conservative Southern Protestant culture: It’s very possible Clay grew up being taught that there’s no such thing as a gay Christian, that gays are people who want to dress in women’s clothing and molest children, gay men think every gay guy is sexy (doesn’t matter if he’s 20 and hot or 60 and fat) etc… I’m a decade older than Clay but I heard all these growing up and it really did delay my Eureka moment (though I had least was suspicioning as a teen).
Since Clay grew up in a more conservative and religious home than I did, it’s really not inconceivable that he thought even in his early 20s “well, I don’t want to molest boys or have sex with Grandpa Jones or dress like Dolly Parton, I just want to meet a nice Green Beret in a QUALITY INN” meant he wasn’t gay. Though now, of course, after two years in the entertainment business, I can pretty well guarantee he’s clocked it.
Not to hijack this thread but how the heck do you not realize that you are gay? Put another way, don’t you sort of get an indication that something is up when you don’t find women attractive?
