Achin' for A Blind Item

As promised, here is a fun blind item from Billy Masters' Filth2Go.com:

Could it be that a very popular chart topper is more of a bottom in his private life?  So say people who have connected with the big-mouthed boy.  And I’ve heard one very funny story about a tryst that didn’t quite happen.  Two years ago, one of my sources and the skinny songstress chatted on gay.com (his hookup service of choice) and agreed to meet in a local parking lot.  After my mouth piece saw the then-mop topped scrawny bottom, he knew this wasn’t a connection for him. To get out of it gracefully, he agreed to follow the solitary soul home – only to speed off in the opposite direction. Here’s the best part of the story – Filth2Go.com has obtained the exclusive photos allegedly used by our boy when he’s looking for someone on the web to lay him down – so to speak.  He may not be the best out there, but sometimes number two gets it in the end.

Is there any doubt it's referring to American Idol's Clay Aiken? I can't run the pictures here because it's within the membership area of Filth2Go.com, but it leaves no doubt in my mind.

Here's my dilemma. Whether Clay is gay or not, is it right to out him like this?

He's made the choice to deny, deny, deny. He would have had to make that decision at some point in the competition. Would an "out" contestant have made it to the finals? Other gay performers are not under the spotlight so quickly or intensely at the early part of their career. Did things go too fast for him to properly think about his coming out process?

Should we knowingly nod and wink and just let him have his closeted success? Or should we go out of our way to make him miserable till he comes out?

To compare Clay Aiken to other pop singers, Ricky Martin is still in the closet, and lucky for him he's still got his teenage fans to support him, otherwise he's pretty much off the radar. Barry Manilow pops up every once in a while with some lame "manufactured" news item to keep his name alive. Johnny Mathis has been retired long ago, but still remains in the closet. What's he got to lose now?

Richard Chamberlain, though not a pop singer, waited till he turned 69 to come out. Barry Manilow and Johnny Mathis may finally decide to follow Richard Chamberlain and come out when they've run out of items to keep the public interested. Let's hope they're all giving Clay the right advice.