Perez Hilton — Prepare yourself North Carolina: Clay Aiken is back! The former closeted American Idol contestant is heading back to his hometown of Raleigh to speak at the Human Right Campaign Carolinas gala this weekend. Gayken will deliver a speech concerning gay... more info

Pop Crunch — -Michelle Trachtenberg does her best Nicki Minaj impression! Not bad….. -Matt Damon will play fellow famous Bostonian Robert Kennedy in an upcoming biopic about the senator’s life…. -Clay Aiken is lending his support to a gay rights rally in No... more info

ContactMusic — Homosexual singer CLAY AIKEN is lending his support to a gay rights rally in North Carolina by delivering a speech at the event this weekend (27-28Feb10).The former... more info

Starpulse — RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More than a year after disclosing he is gay, Clay Aiken is speaking before a gay-rights event in his hometown. more info

Mjsbigblog — Like Clay Aiken, Taylor Hicks and Sanjaya Malakar before her, Season 6 Idol, Melinda Doolittle has written a memoir, set to be released on May 4 Via Press Release Melinda Doolittle, acclaimed recording artist and star of American Idol, believes that... more info

Perez Hilton — We have a feeling he's leaning towards pleasing an older demographic… Clay Aiken's upcoming album on his new record label Decca Records is set to be released this coming summer. He's not going in the pop music direction but taking on romantic cla... more info

MTV.com News — Mary J. Blige sat in with the panel on day two, as 25 golden tickets are awarded.By Gil Kaufman The city that gave us Fantasia, Clay Aiken and Jennifer Hudson brought some serious soul Wednesday night (January 13), the second evening of auditions... more info

MTV.com News — The rapper and pop-music elder connected at the 2001 Grammys in an unforgettable duet.By Eric Ditzian, with additional reporting by Kurt Loder and Sway Calloway Eminem Photo: MTV News When Eminem found himself unable to pull himself out of... more info

MTV.com News — Reports spread that MC would be coming out of the closet on a TV special.By Jayson Rodriguez Asher Roth Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images Fans know that Asher Roth loves college, parties and perhaps most of all, women. One thing he apparent... more info

AllHipHop — DJ Vlad, who serves as Executive Vice President of Loud.com/SRC Records has come forward to dismiss rumors about Asher Roth’s sexuality. Reports surfaced last week that Asher Roth had “come out of the closet” during an interview ab... more info