Many, many, many websites are announcing their shock today to the People Magazine “Exclusive!” report that Clay Aiken is actually a gay man. And now we’re one of them.

It takes a bold gay man to out himself when anyone who has ever heard the song “Invisible” is already 100% sure he likes dudes. The whole phenomenon is kind of like the time you got caught masturbating in your dorm room but wholeheartedly swore it wasn’t what it looked like only to admit five years later that you were, in fact, masturbating. Yeah, it’s kind of like that.

The part that is getting lost in the “Clay is gay” media circus is the strides Aiken is making for assumed but undisclosed gay dudes everywhere. He’s breaking down barriers as we type. Thanks to Clay the door may finally be open for blatant gay men like Anderson Cooper, Dr. 90210, your cousin the hairstylist, the dude from Will & Grace, Kevin Spacey, and that bald interior designer on TV to reaffirm what everyone already knows. They’ll no longer have to live in fear of the aloof reactions of friends and family.

And that’s why we’re officially proclaiming Clay Aiken the Jackie Robinson of coming out of the doorless closet. We’re still working on our Lance Bass analogy.

[Source: Page Six]

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