'The Voice' has openly gay singers: Where are they on 'American Idol'?

Dan82 · May 11, 2011

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/05/10/the-voice-gay-american-idol/

NBC’s The Voice has only aired two episodes, but already viewers have heard something that viewers have probably never heard on Fox’s American Idol: “I’m gay.”

The Voice featured two openly lesbian contestants during its premiere, then two openly gay men during its second episode. While there have been gay Idol contestants, most famously Adam Lambert and Clay Aiken, they’ve either publicly acknowledged their sexual orientation after their respective seasons concluded, or that aspect of their identity was ignored on the show itself. In fact, out of hundreds of contestants that have appeared on TV’s biggest series over 10 years, openly gay portrayals are either nonexistent (nobody contacted for this story could remember one), or at best, extremely rare, let alone in numbers like The Voice has depicted in its first two weeks...

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/05/10/the-voice-gay-american-idol/
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Revan · May 11, 2011

I dunno, maybe the show's just a hell of a lot more liberal.

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