Clay Aiken comes out

Pop singer Clay Aiken came out in People magazine Sept. 26. "It was the first decision I made as a father," Aiken, 29, told the magazine. "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."

"I've never intended to lie to anybody at all."

Aiken's son, Parker, was born Aug. 8, conceived via in vitro fertilization with his best friend, …