Gay-baiting Sanjaya in Seattle

Wow, making fun of someone by suggesting they're gay. Are people still doing that?

Apparently so. Tabloid Baby at TVGasm reports that radio station KISS 106.1 thought it would be really extremely humorous and clever to get American Idol contestant Sanjaya Malakar onstage and gay bait him:

The station invited good-natured and charismatic Sanjaya Malakar to appear at a promotional concert over the weekend, featuring the busty Idol also-ran Katharine McFee, Fergie, Lily Allen and Hillary Duff-- but when he got onstage, he was blindsided by a bunch of drag queens-- and the song "It's Raining Men"-- apparently in a bid to to turn him into a "gay" joke.

Sanjaya has already been forced to "declare" himself straight in an interview with People magazine. But even if he did happen to be gay, so what? And why make fun of anyone for that reason?

Radio stations are big these days on suspending and firing jocks for offensive behaviour on the air. How about suspending or firing these homophobic clowns? Oh, right. They can't-- because management was obviously in on it.

Lucky for Sanjaya, he's bigger than Seattle.

However you feel about Sanjaya or his stint on Idol, aren't we all getting a little tired of hearing how femmey and gay and faggoty he is, as if that's some kind of problem in and of itself? Is he the first willowy boy with a sweet smile and long hair to ever sing to an audience of screaming teenaged girls? Can America please just get over it now?

Here's a clip from YouTube showing the incident, which from now on will be what you find in the dictionary when you go to look up "blindside."