Clay Comes Out

It’s hard for me to believe that one “Claymate” — as “American Idol” star Clay Aiken’s fans are known — felt that she had to stay home from work to deal with the emotional fall-out from his recent confession of homosexuality (through the pages of People, no less). Comedian Kathy Griffin has always mercilessly teased Aiken in her shows, calling him “Gayken,” and has received a tremendous amount of hate mail from the Claymates over the years for doing so. It’s not the teasing they minded — she is a comedian, after all — it was her incredulity that any woman could fail to see that this particular object of her swooning affection was never going to reciprocate. I can’t wait to see what Griffin will do with this news; I hope she considers being supportive and gracious rather than shrill and crass about it. […]