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The post describes how Archuleta struggled to find a better description of his sexuality than simply "gay. Now I'm in love with a woman I think I can be with forever. Clay Aiken was the first to achieve this in Season 2. An early favorite, Hernandez was eliminated from the top 12 shortly after stories emerged of the singer working at a strip club with a "mostly male" clientele called Dick's Cabaret per its owner in an Entertainment Weekly article.

Coming out to his fellow contestants during the Idol tour, he came out publicly during a Advocate interview. I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. One possibility is that they didn't want me to go public with my sexuality. Though in the next season Adam Lambert was able to weather rumors about his sexuality all the way to the grand final, Season 7's David Hernandez was not so lucky.

I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that. On Instagram in June aka Pride Mont hthe singer and Mormon revealed that he discussed coming out as gay to his family insix years after being on Idol.

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He is not the first "American Idol" contestant to discuss struggling with his sexuality. American Idol Season 7 runner-up David Archuleta has discussed the journey he went on with his sexuality in a recent social media post.

I came out in as gay to my family. Inshe told the St. Louis Post Dispatch she was bisexual. This page is for any contestants who have identified as LGBTQ+ in any way. David Archuleta has discussed coming out as gay to his family in a recent Instagram post.

Then I also have learned I don't have too much sexual desires and urges as most people which works I guess because I have a commitment to save myself until marriage. Do not categorize those who are speculated, unless they have acknowledged it in some fashion.

Tour." When "Rollercoaster" came out in. American Idol had its first gay contestant way back in its first season with Jim Verraros, who made the top Out in his public life, he has since said that Fox made him delete an online journal post where he talked about his sexuality, with the network claiming he was not able to "self-promote" as a contestant.

But then I had similar feelings for both genders so maybe a spectrum of bisexual. Since I'm neither one of those, people are completely concerned about me. The singer came out nine years after Idoland one year after reaching the grand final of The Voice Season 1.

He said: "It was the first decision I made as a father [to come out]. Byhowever, he was ready to come out, and did so in People. In lateJim Verraros became the first "American Idol" finalist to come out as gay when he publicly shared his sexuality on the "American Idols LIVE!

Season 2's most controversial contestant was perhaps Frenchie Davis, eliminated before the finals after Fox decided that previous topless photos she had taken didn't fit the family show image the show wanted. He told The Advocate : "Looking back, [the network's policy] could be interpreted a bunch of different ways.

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She told EuroWeb at the time: "They had decided that because American Idol was a family show, that they could not have me on the show because of the pictures I had taken — though they had never seen the pictures. Shortly after his run on the show, Aiken told Rolling Stone: "One thing I've found of people in the public eye, either you're a womanizer or you've got to be gay.