Everything's coming up Adam Lambert. Or, should we say, coming out? The Idol also-ran has landed his own record deal with RCA Records, Us Weekly reports, with an album expected sometime this fall. But today brings more Lambert news, even less surprising than that little morsel: the 27-year-old singer officially confirmed he's gay in a Rolling Stone cover story, hitting stands this week.

"I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay," Lambert reportedly told the mag. Nope. Sure isn't. To a certain Drake LaBry (the fetching young gentleman Lambert's been spotted holding hands with), especially.

"I'm proud of my sexuality," says Lambert. "I embrace it. It's just another part of me."

But the facet of his personality he wants you to know about -- when there isn't an awesome Britney-style RS cover shoot involved, presumably -- is the music.

"I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader," Lambert explains.

Also, he explains that the Idol contestants were prohibited from talking to the press while the show was on the air, so any comments about his personal life had to wait.

"I was worried that [coming out] would be so sensationalized that it would overshadow what I was there to do, which was sing," Lambert said to Rolling Stone. "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."

Adding to the "meh" factor of Lambert's announcement is the fact the Idol contestant has been all but telemarketing Rolling Stone magazine subscriptions to promote his interview. As he told People magazine at the Young Hollywood Awards this past weekend, if you pick up the story "all your questions will be answered...once and for all."

All our questions? Like, what's his favourite colour? And if he had to choose between fighting a velociraptor and a shark with teeth made out of chainsaws, which would he choose? Sorry, Glambert followers, you'll just have to settle for queries like why he tried out for American Idol.

As for the answer, Rolling Stone says it somehow involves a drug-fuelled, "psychedelic experience" at Burning Man. OK, now we're interested.

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