More evidence that the gay community is not embracing Clay Aiken. We, in the gay community, remember that Clay Aiken was the role model for denying who he was and how he hid his sexuality for financial gain.
Until Clay Aiken can do something that truly benefits and advances the gay agenda rather than self-promotion, he will never be accepted.
From GayAgenda.com
I ran across a blog dedicated to Clay Aiken appropriately titles “Clay Aiken 411“, which has a post about the former “American Idol” being honored at an upcoming Family Equality Council event in NYC on April 21st.I know I preach about NOT being negative, and I know I preach about building community, however, I’m a little put off by this one. Here is a guy, who basically refused to come out as gay, for quite a while (even though it really wasn’t a question….was it?) and now he has a kid, comes out as gay, and all of a sudden he’s some sort of hero to the LBGT community? I think not.I would love to see some more deserving individuals, like my neighbor down the street, who has been out since a teen, has raised two children that were her cousin’s, (who died in an auto accident) yet isn’t by Florida law legally able to adopt the children she has cared for and raised for the past 15 years honored.I would like to see those who have truly endured the hate, intolerance and bigotry of homophobia, yet managed to maintain their loving, caring spirit while raising a family honored instead of some guy, who after he obtained his financial goal and decided coming out was no longer a “threat” to his public career be embraced with honors by the LGBT community.I want to make this perfectly clear, I do not have a beef with Clay Aiken, but I do however think there are people much more deserving of being honored. We all come out in our own time, and it’s unfortunate the world still works that way. However, give me a break on this one. If Clay Aiken really wanted to do something for the LGBT community, he would have come out long ago. The message he sent (probably unknowingly and unwillingly) was stay in the closet til you know you’re set financially. That, in my opinion, is NOT a reason to honor someone.
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