ADAM GLAMBERT STATES THE OBVIOUS

In the "NO SHIT" issue of Rolling Stone (on newsstands tomorrow), Adam Lambert finally takes off the glittered eyelashes and confirms what us folks knew the moment he opened his rhinestone-encrusted mouth.

"I'm proud of my sexuality," continues the rocker, who was photographed holding hands with interior designer Drake LaBry earlier this month. "I embrace it. It's just another part of me."

So Glambert says that he decided to wait to come out, because he felt doing it on the cover of Rolling Stone would be "cooler." I think coming out in Rolling Stone was a complete waste of good paper. Where is the organization for saving trees (is there even one that exists) when you need them?

Glambert puckered his glittered lips and said, “I don’t think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I’m gay. 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.' I didn’t want the Clay Aiken thing and the celebrity-magazine bullshit. (Was that a stab back at Gayken for saying what he said about him on his blog a few weeks back?) I need to be able to explain myself in context. I’m proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It’s just another part of me. I’m trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader," he tells RS contributor Vanessa Grigoriadis.

Lambert admits that he was nervous about coming out while Idol was still on the air because contestants are under a media embargo, and he wanted to do it on his "own terms." (He also says producers were open to him handling it however he wanted to.)

"I was worried that [coming out] would be so sensationalized that it would overshadow what I was there to do, which was sing," Lambert tells the mag. "I'm an entertainer, and who I am and what I do in my personal life is a separate thing. it shouldn't matter. Except it does. It's really confusing."

Glambert credits the FOX reality show with helping him gain self confidence.

"I finally checked into my self-worth for the first time in my life, and the fact that it coincided with Idol is so sweet," he says. "I mean, I still have moments where I think, 'Oh, my skin is terrible, and I'm a little fat -- I should really go to the gym more.' But for the most part, when I look in the mirror now, I finally see somebody who can do something cool."

For more details on which Idol Lambert is attracted to (everyone say it in the Miley Cyrus "I smoke two packs a day voice: 'Kris Allen....HELOOOOOO'), how he came out to his family, and what was going through his head when those photos of him in drag hit the web mid-season, pick up the newest issue of Rolling Stone, on stands Wednesday.

So let me ask those who needed this confirmation so damn badly. Has the world stopped spinning now that you clueless assholes got your answer?