David Archuleta: "How I Found Out I Was Queer"

Wake me when it's over

Latino Mormons aren't that common, how on earth did his parents get involved in that mess? In any case, I'm glad he got out.

R2 Coke addiction and then rehab. Usually does it.

I can't be bothered to watch a video. Is the answer gay porn? That's how I figured it out.

Did he read it in Datalounge?

Is there any gay guy who truly doesn’t know they’re gay from early on? You might not have a word for it, but you know you’re different from other boys. There’s a fine line between denial and realization.

Thank God someone got to him to tidy up and not look like a vagrant. He looks very good in the interview.

It’s sickening to hear him being politically correct and using the Q word instead of saying “gay”. People should condemn this type of “Don’t say gay”.

He just lost me at “queer”. I’ll never pay attention to him again.

[quote]There’s a fine line between denial and realization.

He’s acknowledged that he spent years denying it.

When did David become so swishy?

[quote]When did David become so swishy?

At birth?

He likely was holding back the "swish" for years, until the was finally able to accept himself.

Why does he always wear beige clothing? It's a horrible color on him.

He looks very good.

This gay guy, r6. I assumed that I was straight since everyone around me was straight. I never felt different as a child. I didn't start thinking of myself as gay until age 15. I grew up in an atheist household in a liberal part of the country, not in a Mormon family in Utah.

Summary—he found out while he was sucking a big cock.

“I must be gay!”

[quote] He just lost me at “queer”. I’ll never pay attention to him again.

I hate that stuff too, but David seems so lovely and sincere that he manages to pull it off.

So who was the lucky guy that got to pop his gay cherry?

[quote] So who was the lucky guy that got to pop his gay cherry?

Sanjaya Malakar.

[quote] American Idol's Sanjaya Malakar Comes Out as Bisexual, Reacts to Being Called 'Gay' as a Teen

Sanjaya Malakar, who shot to fame as a Top 10 finalist on American Idol season six, is opening up about his sexuality.

The former singer, who is now 32 (in 2022), came out as bisexual during an interview on The Adam Shank Show podcast and he also discussed what it was like to be called “gay” in his teenage years.

Sanjaya was just 17 while competing on the show, on which his vocals were criticized for being “utterly horrendous” by judge Simon Cowell. He revealed during the interview that he’s now working as a pastry chef and bartender.

“I identify as bisexual,” Sanjaya said (via People). “At the time [that I was on American Idol], I did not know, which was why it was so weird for me.”

“I had a hard time figuring out how to interact with young boys because my dad’s from India and grew up in a temple, so there was never like, ‘This is how you are a boy,’” Sanjaya said about his upbringing. “And then, my mom is an A-type personality, Italian-American woman, and [so are] her sisters and my sisters and all of that, so growing up I was already the awkward theater kid.”

He added, “I always got along with theater kids. I always got along with gay kids and girls, so I was like, ‘OK, these are my people.’ But I don’t know. Everyone keeps telling me that I am gay, and I’m like, 7. I don’t even have any attraction to anyone, so why are you telling me this?”

Sanjaya talked about being called “gay” while on the show, despite having a long-term girlfriend at the time.

“I was exploring my life as a child, and then American Idol happened, and everyone was like, ‘Oh, he’s gay.’ And I was like, ‘OK, well now I have to say no, because at this point they’re forcing me to make a decision and define myself,’” he said. “At that time, that was a big thing as well, ’cause I grew up in a time when being called a f—-t in school was the worst thing that could ever happen to you. You had to be as hyper-masculine as possible to fit in, and coming up in 2007, it was like, ‘Being gay is OK, but you have to define yourself, and there’s this or that.’”

“All of my publicists were like, ‘Oh, just tell everyone you’re single. Be ambiguous. No one needs to know anything about anything because you don’t want to lose your fans.’ And I’m like, ‘OK, but why am I manipulating what I know of myself to figure out what kind of fans I’m going to get because I’m still trying to discover who I am?’” he said.

Sanjaya talked about feeling comfortable in his sexuality at 32.

“For me, at this point I don’t really care about what people know of my sexuality, and if I got into a serious long-term relationship with a guy I would bring him to my family, and they’d be like, ‘Oh, cool,’” he said. “A couple of my cousins are bi as well and have brought home gay partners and then come and married someone else. It becomes a big deal, and it’s not.”

[QUOTE]David Archuleta: "How I Found Out I Was Queer"

He looked in a mirror?

He's saying he's queer, not that he's gay. He could therefore be bisexual. Or even trans or nonbinary, since "queer" means those things too.

I'm straight, bitches!

[quote] Clay Aiken recalls losing '50 percent' of his fans after coming out in 2008

Clay Aiken recently looked back on the challenges he faced when he came out in 2008, and how far society has come since then.

The "American Idol" alum first revealed his sexuality as a gay man on the cover of People Magazine in 2008 after welcoming his son Parker in August that year.

"It was the first decision I made as a father," Aiken explained of his decision to come out at the time. "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."

In a Dec. 10 interview with People, Aiken reflected on how much speculation about his sexuality shaped his public persona. While coming out in 2008 brought clarity, he said it came at a cost.

"Back then it was a big deal," he said, recalling the impact it had on his Broadway run in "Spamalot" at the time.

"The first four months that I was in, the show was selling out, standing room only. You can actually look at the ticket sales the week after that cover came out," he explained, referring to his 2008 People cover. "It went from selling very well to the week after the cover came out, the ticket sales dropped. 'Spamalot' ended up closing a few months after that."

"We are in a very different time," he added. "I lost maybe 50% of the fan base."

Despite the setbacks, Aiken said he has no regrets and is grateful the world has changed for the better.

"A lot of people who come out now end up having boosts in popularity because of it... That's mind-blowing to me because it's the opposite of what happened when I came out," he said. "But it means that there's progress and it means that as a country, we're headed in the right direction."

[QUOTE]Latino Mormons aren't that common, how on earth did his parents get involved in that mess?

The Mormon church has found it increasingly difficult to proselytize in Europe (for obvious reasons) and they are in great competition in Latin America with Evangelical Christianity. Solution? The Pacific islands. Mormons have brought tons of Pacific Islanders who are happy to live in large communal settings and follow.

Lots and lots in Utah. It will be interesting to see how ICE approaches their legalization process.

David looks like he scoots.

EXACTLY r11... all the arms and hands🙄... he looks weird in this clip, altho i generally find him very cute...

He's definitely not the most articulate queer in the land. In fact, I can never make it through any interviews he's in. He needs to stick to singing and catching up on getting laid.

How very queer of him..

[quote]He needs to stick to singing and catching up on getting laid.

I wonder how much "catching up" he's done by now?

Separated at birth from R25's Clay Aiken:

Is he gay gay? Or like a gray ace/demisexual you sweet talk with first?

[Quote] The first four months that I was in, the show was selling out, standing room only. You can actually look at the ticket sales the week after that cover came out," he explained, referring to his 2008 People cover. "It went from selling very well to the week after the cover came out, the ticket sales dropped. 'Spamalot' ended up closing a few months after that.

No, the show was on its last legs by the time Clay joined. The audience numbers dried up because it was on its 3rd or 4th cast by then and the show kind of sucks

Has Archuleta experienced a good pounding yet?

He’s had sex with men, neither he nor anyone else has publicly disclosed any details.

He’s exhausting. We all knew he is gay, but he didn’t know? SMH.

[quote]He's saying he's queer, not that he's gay. He could therefore be bisexual.

Sure, Jan. That's not why people choose to label themselves "queer" instead of "gay." It's because "gay" is now considered a bad word to be avoided at all costs. If he were bisexual, he would say so, not hide behind the "queer" label.

R2 yea—it’s not like they are a missionary religion😵‍💫

You couldn’t be more wrong.

[quote]He’s had sex with men, neither he nor anyone else has publicly disclosed any details.

[quote]“I’m an ex-Mormon, of course I was a 30-year-old virgin,” he says before pausing, then re-iterating, “…was.”

R23 Queer means everything, and nothing. A useless modifier.

Is Miss David a bottom?

I'll bet someone is giving that thick ass a good pounding!

He denies being a " full time bottom..."

[quote] He denies being a " full time bottom..."

Sure, Jan!

[quote]In response to a fan’s cheeky inquiry about his type, Archuleta seemed to have a sweet spot for Latinos, likely due to his Latin heritage and upbringing in Miami. He confessed that he “has a thing for Latinos” but quickly added that he’s dated people of other ethnicities too.

[quote]“ok…. here’s the tea yo. I think it has to do with the fact that I was born and grew up first in Miami, but my cousins were all dark skinned, my mom and aunts were the standard of beauty for me and they all were Latinas with tan olive skin. So I think it just stayed with me. So yeah I’ve tended to have a thing for Latinos. Although yeah I’m open to others and have dated all kinds of ethnicities,” David wrote.

[quote] but my cousins were all dark skinned, my mom and aunts were the standard of beauty for me and they all were Latinas with tan olive skin. So I think it just stayed with me. So yeah I’ve tended to have a thing for Latinos

In other words, he's into HUGE Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican COCK.

BBC all the way.

[quote]In other words, he's into HUGE Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican COCK.

So is every New York DL poster!

Send him to Washington Heights. Is Heavenly!

I always thought queer meant crazy, nuts, oddball, etc.🙄... why can't he just say "I'm into guys"?

Not au courant.

[Quote] That's not why people choose to label themselves "queer" instead of "gay." It's because "gay" is now considered a bad word to be avoided at all costs. If he were bisexual, he would say so, not hide behind the "queer" label.

The younger generation has embraced “queer” because it encompasses the whole group without having to say LGBTQ++++.

It pathetic when we complain that LGBTQ+++ is too long and keeps changing, but then also complain when it changes to a single word “queer.”

Here’s how he found out: his dick stayed hard when a giant thick dicked top was pounding his ass.

That was the tell.

We're not complaining about LGBTQ-whatever being too long r52. We're complaining about it being too vague and throwing a bunch of disconnected groups into a big mix that doesn't really work. And we're complaining that actual gay people get lost in the crowd, and even sometimes are treated as some kind of enemy within.

And since Aruchleta appears to be a gay man who wants to have gay sex with other gay men (and who knows, maybe the occasional curious straight guy), I wish he'd just say he's gay and not feel compelled to say "queer."

Any term such as "queer" that comes to mean everything ends up meaning nothing.

LOL because I couldn't stop sucking cock....then I wondered hmmmmm....just maybe I'm "different".

R55 you don’t say? WOW

—r41

Is he cut or uncut?

Hairy or smooth?

Big or small?

No one cares.

David looks like his body is pretty much hairless, with the exception of a little tuft of hair around his tight, pink hole.

His facial hair looks terrible

It seems he has been discovering his queerness for 5 years straight now. I know it’s a lifelong journey but does it really deserve a living public diary.

He lost me at "queer". I thought he came out a decade ago. Is he still going on?

He came out in 2021. Four years ago.

[quote]He lost me at "queer". I thought he came out a decade ago. Is he still going on?

Isn't it rich? Isn't it queer?

Look for his bio-pic in theaters soon. My 50 load weekend.

His book will be out next February.

How I Found Out I was Queer, by David Archuleta.

I got hard when I saw cock.

The end.

R67, what is he expected to reveal in his book?

I don't know about any particular revelations. I'm presuming his going to talk about his childhood, his time on AI and his rise to fame and his subsequent struggles at reconciling his faith with his sexuality. I'm hoping he spills some tea on the LDS bigshots who wouldn't listen to him when he talked with them, some stories about his sex/love life would be interesting to read if he goes into details.