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Did American Idol Target LGBTQ+ Contestants?
There was a time when it felt like everyone in America was watching American Idol. It made superstars out of contestants like Kelly Clarkson, Fantasia and Carrie Underwood. But was there also something else going on? Did we ever question how many of the more marginalized contestants were treated? That’s something journalist Nico Lang explored in their article ‘LGBTQ+ Contestants Say ‘American Idol’ Failed Them: ‘I Saw the Worst of It,’ originally published in Rolling Stone. On today’s episode, Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott speaks with Nico about what they found, and to two of the people featured…
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