Adam Lambert ‘comes out’ officially

Fairly early on in his very successful run as a contestant on American Idol Season 8 and eventual runner-up, it became apparent that Adam Lambert was gay.  But it seems like nobody is ever satisfied until it’s officially conveyed in print.

Adam says he worried that a public announcement would overshadow his singing, so he decided not to respond and largely kept his personal life under wraps on the show.

But ending any speculation in the forthcoming issue of Rolling Stone, out Friday Adam makes it official: “I don’t think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear I’m gay.” He explains: “I’ve been living in Los Angeles for eight years as a gay man. I’ve been at clubs drunk making out with somebody in the corner.”

The 27-year-old  Idol favorite, who finished in second place after Kris Allen, says, “Right after the finale, I almost started talking about it to the reporters, but I thought, ‘I’m going to wait for Rolling Stone, that will be cooler.’ ” He adds, ” I’m proud of my sexuality.”

Holding out a bit to get on the cover of Rolling Stone, priceless!

As for Adam’s type, he describes fellow contestant and Idol winner Kris Allen, as almost perfect except for being ‘not gay’. Adam tells of moving into the show’s Bel-Air mansion with the other finalists, where he roomed with Adam: “I was like, `Oh, (bleep), they put me with the cute guy,’” Lambert says. “Distracting! He’s the one guy that I found attractive in the whole group on the show: nice, nonchalant, pretty and totally my type — except that he has a wife. I mean, he’s open-minded and liberal, but he’s definitely 100 percent straight.”

Known now for his soaring vocal range, Adam also revealed in the interview, it was a soaring trip he took at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, where he experimented with “certain funguses,” that inspired him to audition for the Fox network singing competition after having a “psychedelic experience.” Let’s romanticize it a little and call it a ‘vision quest’!