Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (June 26, 2009)

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!
For many folks, especially here in the U.S. this is Pride Weekend. We'd love to hear what your weekend plans are. Me and mine will probably head downtown to check out the happenings. I haven't been able to go the past couple of years and could use a good dose of gay.

If there aren't any gay goings on in your neck of the woods, Logoonline.com (our parent company) is hosting a Pride Weekend celebration with concert performances by K.D. Lang and the Pet Shop Boys plus you can watch all the episodes of Beautiful People. 

Two men kiss at Jerusalem's gay pride parade

Speaking of pride, one of the best gay moments of the past year, had to be Matthew Mitcham's gold medal in Beijing. AfterElton.com reader Gilmore tipped me off to a new Aussie sports trivia show called  The Squiz. The first episode included Mitcham and according to Gilmore, Matthew was not only adorable but doffed his shirt at one point. 

Alas, that episode of The Squiz isn't online (Boo!), but while hunting for it, I did find an appearance Matthew made on the Pam Ann Show. Matthew is utterly squeezeable and demonstrates he's quite flexible thanks to all those years of diving. Apparently that isn't something that has gone unnoticed by Matthew's partner Lachlan. 

For those of you online junkies who love to take advantage of every aspect of the internet, you can now not only follow us on Twitter here, but we've also beefed up our Facebook page to give you another way to access our great content. If you haven't already Friended us, we'd love if you did. But safely, of course!

On Monday, we posted our coverage of Broadway Bares. Everyone wanted the names of many of the models and now thanks to Broadway.com we have them. In this clip, Susan Blackwell from [title of show] interviews a whole host of the hotties who performed at the fundaiser. Enjoy!

Finally, I'm going to have to end the column on a down note. I'm very sorry to announce that Friday is associate editor Brian Juergen's last day here at AfterElton.com. Brian will be posting an official good-bye tomorrow, but I wanted to use the column to not only wish Brian the best of luck, but to acknowledge his many contributions to the site.

His As the World Turns liveblogs are legendary, his "Blood Work" vlogs had real bite and Brian always brought his keen wit to everything he did. He will definitely be missed.

Our losing him will mean certain changes to the site which we'll be figuring out as we go along. You'll notice we won't be blogging quite as frequently and the liveblog schedule will be changing as well. With both The Young and the Restless and One Life to Live just begging to be liveblogged, we'd love to do it, but alas we don't have the manpower to do all three shows all the time so will likely reserve liveblogs for the more memorable episodes.

We'll also only be posting soap opera clips in Anthony's "Gays of Our Lives" column so be sure to check in on Tuesday for those! We'll keep you posted on other changes and trust you'll bear with us as the site continues to evolve. 

Now I'll shut up so can have the BEST.GAY.PRIDE.WEEK.EVER!