Jun 15, 2007   | COMMENTS     

A battle broke out last week on pop music’s most contentious frontier: Claynation.

CLAY AIKEN, a former “American Idol” contestant, is known for his legions of fans, primarily young and female, who have given themselves the feminist-wary moniker of “Claymates.” The Claymates are infamous for deluding themselves about Gaykin’s seemingly obvious homosexual leanings.

Now The New York Post’s Page Six is reporting that an argument over Aiken’s sexual orientation has been brewing between two camps of vicious Claymates.

“The war is between the batty members that are still clinging to their heterosexual fantasies of him and others that don’t harbor such illusions,” an insider told Page Six.

More than one young man has come forward since Aiken’s second-place “Idol” finish to reveal having engaged in at least online chatting with Aiken in gay chat rooms.

The fighting among the Clay factions grew to the point that the powers that be at clayonline.com, the official fan club website, shut down message board operations as a warning to the squabbling sisters.

“Due to reports of extensive unrest and disrespect amongst members that has been carrying on for several weeks, the Official Fan Club Message Board will be shut down until further notice,” the site read. “Please note that should tensions continue on other areas of the fan club, severe consequences may occur.”

No word on what those consequences might be, but this seems like an awful lot of effort to silence unstoppable rumors.

Dubious claims

A new biography says that none other than JOHN F. KENNEDY, JR., was bisexual. The evidence is tragically vague.

HOLLY WOODLAWN, whom Page Six dubs a “transsexual Warhol superstar,” a title that makes Dish sigh in envy, says she met up with John-John at Studio 54.

“I know he was attracted to me because when we danced he played with my ass and stuff. He kissed me on the dance floor, and I kissed him back,” Woodlawn declares in “American Legacy,” written by C. David Heymann.

Dish is wary of accepting this as truth given that the drug scene at Studio 54 confused a lot of people’s perceptions, but Woodlawn wasn’t the only person to come forward.

“He confided — and I believed him — that he’d had several flings with men,” said Jean Christian Massard, a French acquaintance of Kennedy’s.

Oh, a Frenchman claimed Kennedy was gay? Please! All the French are bi.

Dish doesn’t have time for these lame-o claims, so she begs her loyal readers to send in their best JFK, Jr., fantasy, real or imagined, for her reading pleasure.

Mightier than the sword

Today is a day of outing for celebrities! Gay writer ARMISTEAD MAUPIN ripped into closeted celebs in San Francisco mag 7 x 7.

“The negative influences on the gay culture are being promulgated by people who are widely known to be gay and who continue to act as if it’s a topic of non-discussion. I’m thinking specifically about people like JODIE FOSTER and ANDERSON COOPER. They’re gay, but never talk about it. … They are perpetuating the notion that being gay is a secret shame. We still respect closets far too much in this society,” the sass-a-licious author proclaimed.

Maupin, who also says in the article that he smokes pot every day, has never been one to respect those who hide.

“I’m very proud of the fact that IAN MCKELLEN once asked me if I thought he should come out, and I said yes,” Maupin continued. “I tend to be a little cheeky about this topic because I think it’s important — there are teenagers still committing suicide over their sexuality.”