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As we go into the weekend, here's a handy shortlist of the biggest stories of the week on AfterElton.com. And to get you into a playful mood, each week's final post will feature a pic up top that desperately needs captioning. Each week we'll pick our fave suggestion from the comments and run it in the following week's post. Have fun! Drop your caption ideas in the comments, and check out last week's winner after the jump!

• We were blown away by the new music video from Lady GaGa.
• Ask The Flying Monkey took a look at some of our aging gay icons.
• We loved the sixth episode of the season of Ugly Betty.
• Gays of Our Lives took us around the world for more soap opera news.
• We wondered what the hell Newsweek reporter Ramin Setoodeh was thinking when he wrote his infamous article.
• We recapped the seventh episode of the season of Brothers and Sisters.
• We recapped the mysteriously pixelated seventh episode of the season of The Amazing Race.

• This week's Mores for Gays looked at gay terminology.
• We went Under The Covers for some more snarky titles.
• New Music Monday had info on new tunes from Lady GaGa and Adam Lambert.
• We gave you a purely informative pictorial look at the week in sports.
• We gave you a look forward to a future Brothers & Sisters.
• Your Asshat of the Week was the Rhode Island Governor.
• We reviewed the Greatest Hits CD by out British singer Will Young.
• Out on DVD this week is Bruno and Star Trek.
• We liveblogged As The World Turns for the latest Nuke action.

• We continued our weekly TwitterWatch with Neil Patrick Harris, and more!
• We questioned the timing behind the editor of Out lambasting Adam Lambert.
• But it seems that Adam can speak for himself.
• We continued the new daily feature The Morning Meme.
• We celebrated the union of Beyonce and Lady GaGa.
• We recapped this week's terrific episode of Glee.
• We were intrigued that People Magazine chose Johnny Depp as the Sexiest Man Alive.
• Gay in the UK took a look at the Stonewall Awards.
• We gave you four new contenders in the Battle of the Network Gays.

• And you picked your winner.
• We interviewed the fabulous gay ally Joy Behar.
• We loved the new gay documentary Fatherhood Dreams.
• This week's Puzzler was a mystery.
• We presented the results of our poll on women and gay men.
• We reviewed the long-awaited debut album of Adam Lambert.
• We gave a rave review to Precious, as did the guys from Sounds Like A Hit.
• We gave you a sneak peek at some upcoming action on One Life To Live.
• We asked nine questions of comedian .
• We asked Ugly Betty creator what we can expect in the Justin and Marc storylines.
• And thanks to editor Michael Jensen, you had The.Best.Gay.Week.Ever!

Drop your caption ideas in the comments (And please remember to keep the captions PG-13!), and check out last week's winner after the jump! … continue reading

Time for another one of those time-wasting yet hopelessly addictive online jigsaw puzzles! We're not going to give you any hints, but if you want to see the finished product then click here.

Move the pieces around with your mouse — they will snap together when in the right place. How fast can you complete this puzzle?

Kyle and Brian offer up a review of the movie Precious from gay director/producer Lee Daniels. Their take? It's one of the best movies of the last decade — and Mariah Carey's mustache deserves an Oscar.

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It wasn't even a contest this week as 10-year-old Will Phillips and his parents Jay and Laura demolished the competition. The family from Arkansas won 68% of the vote for young Will's refusal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in school until gays and lesbians have equal rights to marry.

In a distant second with 15% is Glee's Kurt, for his scenes with his crush Finn.

Even with their hot shirtless mud volleyball game, The Amazing Race's Sam and Dan could only manage 10% this week. That's what happens when you pixilate the good stuff!

In last place is Noah from As The World Turns, who suffered horrible burns on his face from a fireworks accident. Oh, and he went blind. Unfortunately it wasn't enough to give him more than 7% of the vote.

Thanks for your votes, and come back next Thursday as four more contenders vie for the crown.

Comedian Billy Eichner has been making a name for himself in New York City for quite some time. A 2005 New York Times article called his late night fake talk show Creation Nation co-starring Robin Taylor "a theatrical phenomenon", and with subsequent appearances on Bravo's A-List Awards and The Showbiz Show with David Spade, Billy has kept bringing the funny ever since.

Billy has two shows coming up at Joe's Pub in Manhattan on November 23 and 24th and we recently threw some questions at the jokester to make him bring the funny on command. 

1) Rosie, Ellen, Wanda or honorary gay Kathy Griffin? Why?
Ellen, because of the four listed here, she's the one that looks most like a chicken. Second place goes to Jay Leno, who looks like a lesbian. Third place goes to Wanda Sykes, because she's the only black person not in "Precious". … continue reading

While the TV schedule is slowing down in anticipation of Thanksgiving, there's still a good amount of gay TV to check out this weekend including the second part of Riley's story on Degrassi: The Next Generation, Margaret Cho visiting the panel of The Wanda Sykes Show and The 2009 American Music Awards.

And when The Amazing Race heads to the Czech Republic, how will Sam and Dan rub another team the wrong way? … continue reading

From the teaser photo, Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, and Mark Salling of Glee all attended the Us Magazine Hot in Hollywood Party Wednesday night. Supposedly, our hottie Puck was attached at the hip to Audrina Patridge of The Hills fame. He's now contaminated fellows. Once Hazmat has The Hills Cooties removed, we'll let you know.

Speaking of Adam, he's done a pair of interviews in the last 24 hours. The first is total fluff about his music and his hair with Idolator, and is probably the kind of thing a young artist on the cusp of releasing his first album should be doing. The second, given to EW today, is all about that nasty letter from Aaron Hicklin in Out. Adam take it head on, gives some context, and checks Hicklin pretty hard. The crux? He's not a politician. Want to talk to him about sex, gay or straight? He's good. His relationships, current or over? That's cool. March on Washington that was happening that weekend? Not his area of expertise. 

Oprah is retiring from her daily talk show in 2011 after 25 years. She's hopeful with some belt tightening, her $2.3 billion will last her until she's old enough for Social Security. Or maybe she'll just start over on the television network she bought and go all Oprah, all day. … continue reading

Tom Ford and Neil Patrick Harris attend the GQ "Men of the Year" awards last night in Hollywood.

Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear. Yes, we're serious.

• Via Towleroad comes this horrifying report about a gay high school student chased and beaten by a gang of classmates. The kicker? He told the school principal and bus driver it was going to happen ... and they did nothing to stop it.

And a partridge in a pear tree

• I know people are getting up-in-arms about Mariah Carey's list of demands to turn on some Christmas lights, and it's too bad they didn't ask me. All I would have required would be a case of Yoo-Hoo, a Baja Beef Chalupa from Taco Bell, and maybe a lap dance from one of those Twilight guys.

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In the "never say die" category comes word that NBC's struggling Trauma, which had been canceled by the network, may be seeing faint signs of life. … continue reading

He's a rock star already.

I want to say upfront, I like Adam Lambert, and I like the disc. I plan on buying it, and I figure it will be in heavy rotation for the holiday season on my iPhone. That said, I wish I felt more like I was listening to Adam, who has the potential to be a groundbreaking artist musically, and less like I was listening to a less original Adam do knock-offs of other bands. … continue reading