Clay Aiken a Gay Dad

Clay AikenQuick: How many famous gay dads can you name? For me, the answer is “Not many.” While most of us can reel off at least a few names of famous lesbian moms, starting with Melissa and Rosie (if not the whole list of Most Powerful Lesbian Moms in America), I think we’d be hard pressed to name any well-known gay men who are fathers.

Singer Clay Aiken, however, now gives us at least one name to put on the list: his own. The American Idol runner-up announced the birth of his son, Parker Foster Aiken, on August 8. He came out in this month’s People magazine, saying, “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.”

Bravo!

Aiken is also a born-again Christian. Seems to me he has a better understanding of what Christianity means than many others who profess an equally strong faith.

Aiken had the child with his best friend and music producer, Jaymes Foster. I wish the new family much happiness. I know the child will have a life full of music.

(Photo credit: Judy Butler, via Wikipedia. This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License (cc-by-sa-2.0). )

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