Given that it is Pride Month, it might be a good time to discuss “American Idol” Season 18 winner Just Sam‘s acknowledging her sexuality in an interview with the New York Post last month. That makes her the first openly LGBTQ+ contestant to claim the prize.
PREDICTDaytime Emmy nominee Kelly Clarkson could become the second ‘American Idol’ alum to get halfway to Egot
The 21-year-old former subway busker who lives in Harlem with her grandmother told the newspaper, “I am a child of God, so that’s always gonna be first. That’s actually the only label that I ever want to have,” she said. “But I like what I like, and that’s just that, you know? And it’s not men. Like, at all.”
Since she was crowned, the first Idol winner to hail from New York City has posted on social media in honor of Pride Month:...
PREDICTDaytime Emmy nominee Kelly Clarkson could become the second ‘American Idol’ alum to get halfway to Egot
The 21-year-old former subway busker who lives in Harlem with her grandmother told the newspaper, “I am a child of God, so that’s always gonna be first. That’s actually the only label that I ever want to have,” she said. “But I like what I like, and that’s just that, you know? And it’s not men. Like, at all.”
Since she was crowned, the first Idol winner to hail from New York City has posted on social media in honor of Pride Month:...
- 6/23/2020
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
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